A senior architect's practice, not a body shop.
DeployCraft Ltd is a UK limited company built around a simple idea: give teams direct access to senior cloud and platform engineering without the overhead of a large consultancy. You work with the person doing the thinking and the building.
Over 17 years I've worked across the full arc of enterprise infrastructure, from IBM i (AS/400) on Power Systems and IBM storage estates through to cloud platforms on all four major providers. I've architected and automated those platforms, built the CI/CD and Kubernetes foundations teams ship on daily, and increasingly helped organisations move AI from proof-of-concept to production.
That range matters most during migration. I've run the systems organisations are moving away from, not only the ones they are moving to, including the licensing and storage decisions that quietly determine whether a modernisation programme lands on budget. The through-line is engineering rigour: infrastructure as code, everything observable, nothing that can't be reproduced.
How I think about the work.
Automate everything worth repeating
If a task happens twice, it belongs in code. Reproducibility is not a luxury. It is how you sleep at night.
Make trade-offs explicit
Every architecture is a set of compromises. I surface them plainly so you can make informed decisions, not inherit hidden ones.
Leave teams stronger
The best outcome is a client who no longer needs me. Documentation and knowledge transfer are part of the deliverable, not an afterthought.
Production is the only real test
Demos are easy. I optimise for the day-100 experience: observable, cost-aware and boringly reliable.
Depth across the stack.
Clouds
AWS · Microsoft Azure · Google Cloud · Oracle Cloud (OCI)
Infrastructure
Terraform · CloudFormation · Bicep · Ansible
Containers
Kubernetes · Docker · Helm · ArgoCD · EKS/AKS/GKE/OKE
Delivery
GitHub Actions · Bitbucket Pipelines · GitLab CI · trunk-based
AI / ML
RAG · LLM integration · MLOps · vector databases · evaluation
Languages
Python · Bash · Go (working) · HCL · YAML
Enterprise systems
IBM i (AS/400) on Power Systems · IBM DS8000 · Storwize V7000 · SAN, replication & capacity planning · IBM licensing
Let's build something reliable.
Cloud platform, migration, or an AI capability you need to get into production. I'd like to hear about it.
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