How I approach real infrastructure problems.
Not a list of projects — a record of method. Each case is documented like an engineering field report: the problem, the investigation, the architecture, and how the result was verified.
The archive.
Detailed field reports are being prepared. Each will follow the same engineering format — the one applied in full to the representative report below. Nothing here is fabricated: figures arrive with the real records.
A growing business running everything on one ageing server.
A representative reconstruction of a common engagement — used here to show the full report format. Real client reports, with their own architecture and figures, will replace it.
The system, before and after.
The same business, re-architected from a single fragile server into a resilient, observable environment. Toggle to compare — new, redundant systems are highlighted.
Before — the risks
After — the resilience
Understand first. Change carefully. Verify everything.
Every step is reversible. Nothing goes live until it has been verified.
Understand the system before touching anything.
First I map what's actually running and what depends on what — so nothing is a surprise later.
Inventory of services, traffic patterns and failure points; log and resource analysis; a documented picture of the current state and its real risks.
Design for the failure modes, not just the features.
The target architecture removes the single points of failure and makes the system observable.
Separate concerns (edge, web, app, data), add redundancy where it matters, make backups automatic and tested, and put monitoring on everything — all cost-aware.
Migrate carefully, with a way back.
The move happens in rehearsed steps, with a rollback path ready at every stage.
Provision the new environment, sync data, rehearse the cutover, validate, then switch behind the edge — with the option to roll back instantly if anything looks wrong.
A result isn't real until it's verified.
How it was validated
Outcome Figures pending real data
Modernise the failure modes, not just the hardware.
New servers on the same fragile design fail the same way. The real work is removing the ways a system can quietly break — and making sure you'd know if it did.
Have an infrastructure story that needs a better ending?
Tell me where it stands today — I'll investigate, document it, and take it somewhere reliable.