Uses - Tools, Stack & Environment

Tools

Software and applications I use daily

Primary editor for scripting, configuration and infrastructure-as-code work.

GPU-accelerated terminal emulator, daily driver for shell and SSH work.

AI coding agent used for automation scripting and day-to-day development tasks.

Open-source coding agent and CLI used for day-to-day development tasks.

Typesetting for technical documentation and academic writing.

Self-hosted instance deployed and maintained for collaborative academic writing.

Office suite for day-to-day documentation and reporting.

Used where compatibility with university and industry partners requires it.

Technologies and frameworks I work with

Infrastructure-as-code for DNS automation and configuration management across university infrastructure.

Centralised identity management, including DNS integration and user/host lifecycle administration.

Machine-to-machine encryption and secrets management, currently being rolled out.

Automated certificate issuance and renewal across all managed machines.

Automation pipelines and data processing; matplotlib and pandas for evaluation and visualisation.

Statistical evaluation and visualisation, reducing reliance on closed-source software.

Containerisation for services and development environments.

Container runtime for HPC workloads.

Virtualisation for infrastructure and testing environments.

Hardware and workspace setup

Daily driver for development and administration work.

Deployment and maintenance of production servers across university infrastructure.

Virtualisation nodes underpinning self-hosted infrastructure.

Storage layer for virtualisation hosts, chosen for data integrity and snapshotting.