A lifelong interest in software, a decade of experience from bare-metal to cloud infrastructure, and a passion for automation and DevOps methodologies. End-to-end, from the platform to the product.
Over the past decade I've run IT infrastructure across healthcare, finance, and education: cloud platforms, networking, identity, endpoints, and the compliance programmes that tie it all together. Right now I'm leading an AWS migration and cloud-native modernisation end-to-end.
I believe good infrastructure is simple, maintainable, and reliable. Terraform, Ansible, and GitHub Actions are how I get there.
Web development is the other side of my work: fast, responsive, and accessible applications, with an eye for detail. Laravel and the TALL stack are usually my tools of choice, but this site is built on Astro (opens in new tab), tuned to load in a blink.
South Yorkshire is home, and I work remotely, but find inspiration in the remoteness of the Scottish Highlands when I'm fortunate enough to visit.
In brief
To learn something new, practise a tool, or scratch an itch.
Started as a Frontend Mentor challenge and grew from there. Book search and metadata pull from the Open Library API, with shelf management, progress tracking, reviews, and 2FA auth all built on top. A live demo account lets visitors try it without signing up.
A personal blog covering the British independent wrestling scene. Posts and photo galleries are written in Markdown and deployed as a static site. Production builds generate responsive image variants and lazy-loaded thumbnails to keep pages fast on a photo-heavy site.
If something on here caught your eye, get in touch.
contact@benjamesdodwell.com