My whole
world, filed.
I'm Ali — I build and self-host my own systems end to end, from the infrastructure up. Not a template. Not a résumé PDF pretending to be a website. A raw index of everything I shoot, drive, wear, build, and climb — filed like a stack of prints and receipts on a very overloaded desk. The engineer and the person are the same feed.
Engineer
for hire
Cloud infrastructure, DevOps, and full-stack — shaped by roles across government IT, fintech, and education, and proven on systems I run myself, end to end. Same person behind the feed above — this is the part with the invoices attached.
Hands-on provisioning across AWS and Azure — EC2, VPC, IAM, storage, core networking. Supported CI/CD pipeline maintenance via Git workflows, administered Linux and Windows servers with Python/Bash automation, and worked incident response and change management within the ITIL v4 framework in a government role requiring strict governance and security standards.
Led end-to-end development of an MVP careers web app — React/Vite frontend with a full Firebase backend (Firestore, Auth, REST). Owned the product lifecycle from founder requirements through deployment and iteration.
Diagnosed a faulty CCTV system through methodical fault isolation, correctly identifying the compute box (not the drive) as root cause and saving an unnecessary replacement. Independently planned and installed structured network cabling with verified end-to-end connectivity.
Shoot, edit, and produce social and multimedia content for a community organisation — the same photography and video instincts behind the feed on this site, put to use for someone else's audience.
Planned and delivered personalised A-Level CS lessons — data structures, recursion, Python — adapting to specific weaknesses. Structured past-paper exam prep drove a measurable improvement in confidence and grades.
A self-hosted personal life OS running on my own hardware — habit and prayer tracking with push notifications, spaced-repetition language learning, an AES-256-GCM encrypted password vault, and a udev rule that auto-imports Garmin data the second the watch is plugged in. Live, invite-only, with its own self-hosted CI/CD.
NEXT.JS / SELF-HOSTEDAir-gapped, on-prem Chaos Engineering platform on real Cisco switches with a fully self-hosted GitLab CI/CD pipeline and a local Llama 3 8B model auto-generating root cause analysis for Layer 1/2 failures. Final year dissertation — 81.3%.
GITLAB CI / LLAMA 3A personal career CRM — drag-and-drop Kanban board for tracking job applications through every stage, with an analytics dashboard. Runs in Docker, reachable remotely over my own Tailscale mesh, no public exposure.
NEXT.JS / DOCKERPeer-to-peer messaging app in Python built on Twisted and raw sockets — low-level async networking without framework abstractions.
PYTHON / SOCKETSClass II Upper Division (2:1), 68.7% overall — graduated June 2026. Final year: Individual Project 81.3%, Theory of Computation 81.8%, Data Visualisation 80%. Dissertation: Automated Chaos Resilience Platform.