Backups You Can Actually Restore — and Nobody Can Delete
PostgreSQL backups for small businesses with Barman, a restore habit, and a WORM copy.
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Custom Software · Private Infrastructure · EU
Software built for you.
Software built for you.
Infrastructure you own.
I build custom web and mobile applications for schools, clinics, and manufacturers — deployed on private infrastructure my clients fully control. No AWS. No Azure. No vendor lock-in.
16+ years of custom development and private infrastructure across the EU
What I Build
Custom web and mobile applications for organisations that need software built around their exact workflow — not the other way around.
Every project I deliver runs on private infrastructure my clients fully own. No AWS. No Azure. No Google Cloud. No vendor dependency, no surprise costs, no question about where your data lives.
Who I Work With
- Schools and universities managing student data that must stay within the EU
- Clinics and hospitals with strict obligations around patient records
- Small manufacturers running operational systems where downtime has a direct cost
How It Works
You get software built exactly for your workflow. You get infrastructure you fully control. And you get one person responsible for the whole thing — from the application code down to the server it runs on.
No handoffs. No vendor lock-in. No hidden dependencies.
Recent Writing
A selection of articles on custom software, private infrastructure, and data sovereignty for organisations in the EU.
Latest Thinking
Your Scanner Isn't the Control. Your Evidence Is.
Relying on specific security scanner tools over actual evidence of security practices is counterproductive—what matters is demonstrable proof that systems are secure, not which vendor's report you use.
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Logging Field Guide
How to instrument a service so the people who have to read it later — on call, in an audit, during an incident — can actually find what they need.
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The Dashboard Was Telling the Truth
A retail software team's perfectly-coded webhook module kept failing mysteriously every Monday—until they realized their metrics were measuring the wrong things and missing real-world problems.
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I Was the Gatekeeper
A former tech gatekeeper confronts how AI is democratizing access to once-exclusive skills, revealing uncomfortable truths about gatekeeping, prestige, and what happens when expertise stops being scarce.
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