Rewriting a Legacy CCT System Without Downtime
I inherited a production system from a consultant my client hired, there was no documentation and no handover. The people who originally wrote it left uncere...
I'm a backend-focused Full Stack software engineer with years of experience building production systems in Python and Django. I've delivered everything from data pipelines processing hundreds of thousands of records to mobile apps shipped to both major app stores. Before that I was a Technology Analyst at J.P. Morgan in London. I hold an MSc from UCL.
In my spare time I run a homelab on bare metal — currently exploring Kubernetes, Terraform, and Proxmox.
I write here about the systems I build, the problems I run into, and occasionally the tools that make the work faster.
Recent Posts
MCP Server
So i tried to visit one of my throwaway dashboards and i forgot the password i had set. I could easily check where i had it saved but i could not be bothered...
Setting Up Homelab With Terraform Ansible Proxmox Grafana Prometheus
The Lenovo ThinkCentre arrived, I couldn’t stop until I had a full observability stack. If you’ve been following along, you know the T2 chip MacBook saga. Th...
Building a Throwaway Dashboard with Claude Code
For the past few years I’ve been managing data collection for the AGILE (Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment) programme, a World Bank in...
react native – ثبات
it seems i still have it! 😀
homelab update
T2 chip is a nightmare when trying to recycle an old mac with a broken screen. the actual computer is perfectly fine, but now, i have a brick. Proxmox kept s...
building a homelab using Proxmox on an intel macbook
my sister had an old 32gb intel macbook with 1TB i just couldnt let go unused. not really old, the last of the line of intel macs, the 2019 16 inch. I starte...
ci/cd telegram notifications
so I’ve been having amaro in production break, and i would only find out when i see the github email hours later or the users send me a message asking whats ...
Building ETL Pipelines for a World Bank Education Programme
This is a process that took a couple of months to perfect, over 3 States in Nigeria, and numerous data collection exercises. I never meant to be a Data Engin...
CPython
What happens when you run Python Code