Sep 19, 2026 | Client work, Networking, Reliability
Five WordPress sites on one shared server started returning 502s. They stayed down for about twenty hours. Nothing had been deployed, nothing had been upgraded, and the server was up the whole time. What happened The server runs each site’s PHP in containers...
Mar 1, 2026 | Client work, Infrastructure
At a cloud-native software company I was the sole platform engineer for a microservice estate spread across four cloud projects. Fifteen services, fifteen separate deployment pipelines, each grown independently and each slightly different from the others. A full...
Jul 13, 2025 | Client work, Infrastructure
Executive Summary Faced with 10‑year‑old Ivy Bridge servers, fragmented GPUs, and mounting energy bills, the lab launched a six‑month modernization from January to June 2025. The goals were to: Cut idle power and HVAC costs Consolidate scattered compute and GPU...