Infrastructure & Network Engineer
I design, run, and quietly maintain the networks and delivery pipelines that other people’s products sit on — currently in manufacturing and healthcare, and on the open‑source side at eustasy and elementary.
Sixteen years in infrastructure and networks. Strongest where the system has to stay up without anyone noticing.
2nd‑line network support across a large multi‑site NHS estate. Cisco L2/L3, VLANs, firewall changes, OSPF/BGP, and 802.1X / RADIUS under strict change control.
Eight years across the IT team — from 1st‑line through to senior. LAN/WAN, Aruba switching and Wi‑Fi, SSL VPN for hundreds of remote users, VoIP / SIP, firewalls and IPsec VPN.
Supported large‑scale network and telecoms infrastructure. Field and remote fault diagnosis, connectivity and availability issues across the estate.
Open‑source ops tooling — SSL setup, 2FA, BitTorrent, colour systems.
The marketing site, the build pipeline, and the CDN that fronts both.
Personal picks — CPUs to apps, hosts to peripherals. What I’d actually buy, install, or pay for.