Working demonstrations of approach and judgment: a visual workflow tool, and this site, a portfolio that shows its own workings.

The calls

ABIMO: the flowchart, industrialised. A living, connected map of how a business runs: it charts the possibilities, flags the blockers and tunes the flow to real-life needs. Self-hosted and model-agnostic, so a team keeps its own data and avoids vendor lock-in. In design.

This site: a build trail of specs, mistakes caught and what changed. Coming soon.

OPEY.EXE: a tiny ad-free arcade game, built to show the same thinking at play. Suited for work. Play it

Applied AI, from prompt to production: years of hands-on work with agentic workflows and self-hosted, model-agnostic setups, with a clear view of where AI breaks.

Scope

Agent-assisted engineering across whole codebases, full stack and DevOps-style, from local to hosted. Retrieval on own data, API integration and evaluation of failure modes. Agents hosted on a VPS outside the local environment. Hands-on with Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT and Copilot.

Local AI security, privacy and data validation built in from the start.

How I work with it

Adversarial collaboration, with the human leading: the model proposes, I challenge it, and nothing ships unverified.

Builds

Self-hosted assistant: local models and tooling, with the model chosen on privacy first, not benchmarks. In progress.

Signal engine: probability-based, cross-checked by a layer that classifies why signals fail, because knowing why is worth more than knowing whether. 2.0 in progress.

Guardrails

A model that speaks only when allowed. Answers grounded in vetted sources kept current. Separate dev and prod. Reading a system is fine; writing back needs explicit, informed consent.

Aimed at

Real business processes, which is where the value is.

Primary responsibility for IT through the split of a company into two entities.

Scope

Transition of running systems and rollout of new ones, with every colleague supported throughout, from 1st to 3rd line.

Migration coordinated with project management and specialist consultants, with involvement in every decision at CTO level.

In short

One IT environment, split cleanly into two entities, with the work carrying on and colleagues supported the whole way through.

Hundreds of systems, new and legacy, working together as one whole.

Scope

Infrastructure, monitoring and security, with fast recovery when something critical breaks.

No system I can’t crack, no stack I can’t support.

In short

Hundreds of systems that behave as one: watched, understood and recoverable, with thousands of colleagues relying on them.

Personal IT, game and AI projects, in Unity with Cursor as the development tool. Bodybuilding, health and wellbeing alongside.

The fun part

OPEY.EXE: a tiny ad-free arcade game starring a data engineer with a network-cable whip. Play it

More games: several in the design phase, and one in active development.

Leading by example: time taken to work with every employee, with no idea unheard and none taken without credit.

Teamwork as the basis of success in any department. Individuals working as part of a unit create abundance in day-to-day operations.

Why it works

The person doing the daily work sees the details and holds hours of hands-on ideas: what works, what is annoying, and which repetitive tasks automation could take over.

The answers are hiding in plain sight, and collaboration is how they are found.

A full Windows environment, hosts and policy rules included, rolled out entirely from PowerShell 7.

Scope

Domain controller and Active Directory, file server, time sync (NTP) and multiple clients, with Group Policy on top. All of it written as code, so the whole environment can be rebuilt on demand, not clicked together once.

Automation

Anything can be automated, from recovery to everyday tasks. The only real limit is imagination.

The call

A server environment that exists as a script can be reviewed, repeated and fixed. One that exists in someone's memory cannot.

Independent consulting under the Opey name. No job too big or small: from one stubborn problem to a whole environment.

Scope

Infrastructure, data, cloud, automation and applied AI, with the same care at any size.

How it runs

Plain scope up front, honest about what can and cannot be done, and nothing hidden along the way.

Pricing

Priced by the task: scope, effort and risk set the price, agreed before work starts. No surprises, no padding.

Get in touch

Reading, reviewing and debugging code across many languages is the everyday skill, with the editor as a guide. The typing can be handed off; knowing whether it is right is the job.

Read, review, debug

PowerShell, Bash, Python, C++, C#, Java, SQL, JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML/CSS, AL, VBA and Batch.

How

The editor flags what is wrong, the logic is checked by reading it, and anything that matters is tested before it ships. AI helps, and nothing it writes goes in unread.