Digital Producer with 14+ years in multimedia and design, transitioning into DevOps engineering. I bring systems thinking from a production background, understanding how things are built, delivered, and maintained, and I'm applying that to infrastructure, automation, and deployment pipelines.

• Building a DevOps learning path hands-on: Linux → Git → Docker → CI/CD → Cloud → IaC → Observability
• Deploying and maintaining real infrastructure on a self-hosted Raspberry Pi 4B lab environment
• Automating Android app delivery for FitForge via GitHub Actions → EAS Build → Google Play Store

Privacy-first workout tracking app for Android. No ads, no account required, all data stored on-device. Features custom workout creation, guided session mode, stats and insights, reminders, and QR code workout sharing. Built in React Native / Expo with a custom Material Design-inspired design system. Currently in closed testing on the Google Play Store.

CI/CD pipeline: GitHub Actions test → build → submit on version tag push. Jest unit test suite. EAS Build produces AAB artifact; EAS Submit delivers to Play Store internal track via Google Service Account (least-privilege permissions). Actions pinned to immutable commit SHAs with permissions: contents: read at workflow level. Lefthook + gitleaks for pre-commit secret scanning.

React Native Expo GitHub Actions EAS Build Jest Android

WordPress plugin built at Ironbark Marketing that generates a branded link directory page at yourdomain.com/quicklinks/. Customisable profile image, background and button colours, drag-and-drop link reordering. CI/CD pipeline via GitHub Actions: PHPCS validation enforcing WordPress Coding Standards, zip packaging, and automated GitHub Releases on version tag push.

WordPress PHP GitHub Actions PHPCS

Self-hosted centralised management dashboard for over 15 production WordPress client sites, built on MainWP and deployed to a dedicated subdomain. Replaces a manual, site-by-site update workflow with a single control plane covering bulk updates, uptime monitoring, and security visibility across all managed sites.

Key implementation decisions: real server-level cron over WP-Cron (unreliable on a low-traffic dashboard-only subdomain); per-site OpenSSL key pairs with Unique Security IDs replacing password authentication; maintenance mode for frontend obscurity after directory password protection was evaluated and rejected (intercepts WordPress core HTTP requests). Backup strategy layered across UpdraftPlus per-site (weekly) and VentraIP server-level hourly snapshots.

MainWP WordPress Apache MariaDB Linux Cron

Self-hosted video game music player running on a Raspberry Pi 4B. Forked and significantly extended from an upstream HTML5 player: migrated playlist parsing from XML to JSON (vipvgm.net API), added sequential playback mode, Source playlist with CDN fallback logic, and Omni playlist (client-side merge of VIP, Mellow, and Exiled sorted A-Z). Full localStorage persistence across sessions with sequential position restoration fix.

Infrastructure: Nginx, Let's Encrypt TLS (DNS-01 challenge via Cloudflare plugin), dynamic DNS automation via Cloudflare API, CORS resolved via local Pi proxy serving roster files refreshed weekly by cron.

Nginx Let's Encrypt Cloudflare Bash Linux Cron

Native Android companion app to the self-hosted web player, built as a fork of VidyaMusic by MateusRodCosta. The web player originally shipped a PWA for mobile use, but background audio proved unreliable on Android due to OS power management — a native app was the correct solution.

Extended from upstream to achieve full playlist parity with the web player: XML/XSPF roster support for WAP and CPP playlists, Source playlist with source-file filtering, and Omni (concurrent fetch of all six playlists, merged and sorted A-Z). Per-playlist position memory with atomic snapshot persistence, shuffle state persistence, and Bluetooth auto-launch notification support.

CI/CD pipeline: GitHub Actions assembleDebug on version tag push, APK attached to GitHub Release. Actions pinned to immutable commit SHAs. Licensed AGPLv3.

Kotlin Jetpack Compose Media3 GitHub Actions Gradle Android

Infrastructure & DevOps Linux · Nginx · Docker · Docker Compose · GitHub Actions · Bash · Cron · UFW · SSH · Cloudflare · Let's Encrypt · Certbot · EAS CLI

Development React Native · Expo · Kotlin · JavaScript · PHP · HTML · CSS

Tools Git · Jest · Lefthook · EAS Build · PHPCS · Composer · gitleaks · VS Code

Before pivoting to DevOps I spent 6+ years as a Digital Producer at Ironbark Marketing, spanning UI/UX design, front-end development, WordPress plugin development, and multimedia production. That background shapes how I approach infrastructure: documentation, system design, and the gap between what developers build and what operations teams maintain.