Independent infrastructure specialist
Linux infrastructure engineering for hosting and SaaS operators
I help infrastructure businesses migrate legacy platforms, automate operations, improve observability, and solve production problems without adding another full-time senior engineer.
Production experience, not laboratory architecture
What I work on
Senior infrastructure capacity where it is actually needed
Focused engagements for operators who already have systems, customers, and operational constraints—not greenfield diagrams detached from production.
Platform migrations and automation
OpenVZ and Virtuozzo modernisation, Proxmox LXC architecture, migration tooling, provisioning workflows, configuration management, application packaging, and repeatable deployment standards.
Production Linux operations
Complex failure investigation, storage and I/O behaviour, networking, containers, upgrades, service lifecycle problems, legacy-system stabilisation, and operational hardening.
Observability and capacity engineering
Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, exporters, alerting, fleet-wide anomaly detection, usage accounting, and performance analysis across multi-tenant infrastructure.
How I engage
Useful to small teams carrying large operational responsibility
My background combines hosting-platform engineering, enterprise ICT, remote-site networking, systems automation, and long-term administration of privately hosted services.
That range is useful when the problem crosses boundaries: hypervisor, container, storage, network, monitoring, application packaging, and the operational process around all of them.
Direct technical ownership
Work with the engineer designing and implementing the solution, rather than a sales layer relaying requirements.
White-label delivery
Subcontracted infrastructure work for MSPs, agencies, hosting providers, and consultancies that need specialist Linux depth.
Documentation and handover
Operational procedures, architecture decisions, deployment instructions, and maintainable automation remain with your team.
Pragmatic scope
Start with a defined migration, investigation, implementation, or technical assessment—not an open-ended transformation programme.
Representative work
Problems I have handled in operating environments
Migration architecture and operating standards for moving a large OpenVZ 7 estate toward Proxmox LXC while preserving customer workloads and service workflows.
Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, custom metrics, and operational dashboards for a geographically distributed multi-tenant hosting platform.
Standardised one-click application installation, lifecycle management, packaging, and Ansible-driven deployment across customer containers.
Have a migration, operational bottleneck, or stubborn production problem?
Send me the context. I will tell you plainly whether it fits my experience and what a sensible first engagement would look like.