📍 North East England | Platform engineering, ML infrastructure, Agentic Development, Retro Computing, Robot Tinkerer
Thirty years of production operations across banking, payment processing, and healthcare. Founder of Limilo Ltd. Lots of senior platform engineer on large scale systems.
Moving into ML infrastructure. The hard operational problems are familiar territory.
- ☁️ stewards_enquiry - POC Security-alert triage agent on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
- ☁️ point.vote - Planning poker for humans and agents
- ☁️ inference-platform -Cache-aware LLM inference platform POC focused on reliability, observability, and failure recovery under real serving conditions.
- 🗒️ clorg-mode - Org-mode, but you talk to it
- 📋 CCchangelog - Claude Code changelog tracker, posting updates to Bluesky
- 🤖 ron_clanker - AI-powered Fantasy Premier League manager. Sunbed not included.
- 📊 progress_bot - Bluesky bot tracking the US presidential term
- 🦀 omega_rust - Learning Rust by building a game
- 🌐 jolyonbrown.github.io - My blog, CV etc
Infrastructure: AWS, Azure, Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, HAProxy, LDAP, Linux, Old School Unix!
Observability: Prometheus, Splunk, ELK Stack
Development: Python, Bash, Git — Claude Code, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot daily
Linux Format Magazine — "Administeria" column (2014–2017)
Monthly sysadmin column for the UK's best-selling Linux magazine. I had a habit of covering things early:
| Year | Topic |
|---|---|
| 2014 | Docker — multiple tutorials during early adoption |
| 2014 | OpenStack — four-part series |
| 2015 | Kubernetes — two-part series, one year after release |
| 2015 | AWS + Ansible — three-part cloud automation series |
| 2015–16 | ELK Stack — in-depth observability guide |
| 2016 | Prometheus — before it became the standard |
Currently: building agentic systems, investigating ML infrastructure, keeping production systems running, bunch of secret projects.