Hire Me | Memoirs of a Dev

I’m a full-stack developer and infrastructure engineer based in Northamptonshire, UK. I build things that work. Custom platforms, ecommerce tools, internal systems, and the infrastructure to run them. No agencies, no middlemen, no bullshit.

I’ve spent over a decade building and maintaining the entire tech stack for a family ecommerce business. Listing products across multiple channels, managing servers, writing custom applications, and keeping everything running. If it plugs in, connects to the internet, or needs code, I’ve probably fixed it at 2am.

What I do

Web Development

Full-stack applications built to solve real problems, not impress other developers.

PHP / Laravel / Livewire - my bread and butter for web apps, dashboards, and admin panels
Go (Golang) - APIs, microservices, background workers, CLI tools
Vue.js - modern frontends with Tailwind CSS
MySQL - schema design, optimisation, the boring stuff that matters

Infrastructure & DevOps

I manage servers, not tickets.

Linux server management - Ubuntu, Debian, setup to maintenance
Docker - containerised deployments, compose stacks, the works
Cloud hosting - DigitalOcean, Hetzner, Vultr. Sensible hosting for sensible money. Not AWS. You don’t need it and neither does your wallet
Laravel Forge - zero-downtime deployments, SSL, server provisioning
Proxmox - virtualisation, LXC containers, VM management
DNS & networking - Cloudflare, Technitium, Traefik reverse proxy, VPNs, firewalls
Monitoring - Uptime Kuma, Grafana, Prometheus, keeping things alive

Ecommerce

I’ve listed, managed, and shipped thousands of products across multiple platforms.

Multi-channel listing - eBay, Amazon, Shopify, WooCommerce
Order management - custom platforms, Linnworks integration, workflow automation
Product data - feed management, variant structures, pricing logic
The stuff nobody thinks about - returns processing, shipping label automation, stock sync, the boring ops that make or break an ecommerce business

Automation & Integration

If you’re doing something manually more than twice, I’ll automate it.

API integrations - connecting systems that weren’t designed to talk to each other
Data pipelines - getting data from A to B without losing it
Cron jobs & workers - background processing, scheduled tasks, queue management
Webhooks - real-time event handling between services

What I’ve built

Multi-channel ecommerce platform - product management, listing automation, order processing across eBay, Amazon, and direct sales
Media recording pipeline - Go-based system handling concurrent HLS/LLHLS stream recording with worker distribution across multiple servers
Document management system - AI-powered classification using Claude Vision, automatic metadata extraction, financial document forwarding
Bluetooth proximity detection - macOS app using CoreBluetooth BLE RSSI monitoring for automatic screen lock/unlock
Network infrastructure - self-hosted DNS, reverse proxies, monitoring stack, VPN tunnels, NAS management across a Proxmox cluster
Internal tools - too many to list. If someone needed it, I built it.

How I work

Remote only - I’m in Northamptonshire but your servers don’t care where I sit
Plain English - I explain what I’m doing and why. No jargon walls, no mystifying the work to justify the invoice
Pragmatic - I build what you need, not what looks good on my portfolio. Simple first, complex only when necessary
Honest - if something is outside my experience, I’ll tell you. If your idea is bad, I’ll tell you that too. You’re paying for my opinion, not just my keyboard

What I don’t do

AWS consulting - you almost certainly don’t need it. I’ll save you thousands by hosting sensibly elsewhere
Wordpress sites - there are cheaper people for that
Mobile apps - not my world
Design from scratch - I can implement a design beautifully but I’m not a graphic designer. Bring a design or let me work with a clean, functional aesthetic

Who I’m for

I’m not looking for enterprise clients or big corporates with IT departments and procurement processes. I’m here for the small, independent businesses and people who just need someone they can ring up and go “the wifi’s broken” and it gets fixed in 10 minutes.

Your thing is broken? I’ll fix it. Your business needs a tool? I’ll build it. You’re drowning in spreadsheets? I’ll automate them. You don’t need a tech team. You need one bloke who gets it.

No contracts, no retainers, no minimum hours. Just work that needs doing and someone who’ll do it properly.

Get in touch

Interested in working together? Drop me an email and tell me what you need. No forms, no booking links, no sales funnel. Just a conversation.

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