Hi, I'm Neil. I help business owners, agencies, SaaS teams, and e-commerce teams fix, stabilize, migrate, secure, and automate their servers and web infrastructure.
I'm a Senior Infrastructure / DevOps / Platform Engineer with 15+ years of hands-on experience across Linux systems, AWS, Hetzner, DigitalOcean, Linode, Proxmox, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD, monitoring, backups, DNS, SSL, WordPress, Magento, Shopify, PHP, and production support.
I am especially useful when you need someone who can step into an existing environment, understand what is wrong, clean it up, and leave it more stable and documented.
What I can help with:
* Short-term DevOps and infrastructure contracts
* Linux server administration, hardening, monitoring, and troubleshooting
* WordPress, WooCommerce, Magento, Shopify, cPanel, Cloudflare, DNS, and SSL support
* Website and server migrations between hosts or cloud providers
* AWS, Hetzner, DigitalOcean, Linode, and bare-metal infrastructure
* Terraform, Ansible, Packer, CI/CD, GitOps, and deployment automation
* Kubernetes, Rancher, Proxmox, Vault, MinIO, Ceph, and internal platform operations
* Malware recovery, high-load troubleshooting, backups, uptime monitoring, and incident response
* Documentation, SOPs, handover notes, and practical technical guidance for your team
A few examples of my work:
* Led infrastructure architecture and operations for Kubernetes, Proxmox, bare-metal, GPU-enabled servers, and distributed storage environments.
* Helped migrate production servers from Germany to Norway and managed a large infrastructure environment with 40 physical servers, 40 GPUs, and around 900TB of distributed storage.
* Managed infrastructure and cloud environments for Magento/e-commerce clients, including performance tuning with Varnish, Fastly, PageCache, New Relic, Nginx, and PHP-FPM.
* Supported ----------- / Mealbooth infrastructure, including emergency recovery after malware incidents, server hardening, AWS migration, Terraform/Ansible automation, and CI/CD improvements.
* Managed WordPress and managed hosting operations for long-term clients, including DNS, SSL, Cloudflare, uptime monitoring, billing continuity, and WordPress maintenance.
* Earlier in my career, I led a loan management system deployed across 70+ banking branches and administered Sybase and Novell OES environments.
How I work:
I like clear scope, practical communication, careful execution, and documentation. For short contracts, I can start with an audit or issue review, identify the safest fix, execute the work, and provide a simple handover so you are not left dependent on guesswork.
Best fit projects:
* “Our server is slow or unstable.”
* “We need to migrate from one host/cloud to another.”
* “We need DevOps help but not a full-time hire yet.”
* “We need someone to clean up WordPress/Magento hosting.”
* “We need monitoring, backups, SSL, DNS, or Cloudflare fixed.”
* “We need Terraform/Ansible/Kubernetes help.”
* “We need a senior technical person who can work independently and explain things clearly.”
I am targeting short contracts first, but I am also open to a full-time remote role if there is a good long-term fit.
