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I'm Dave

DevOps Engineer

01. About

A bit about me

I'm a DevOps Engineer who enjoys figuring out how tech works, how to build and deploy applications, cloud components, and CI/CD tooling. I try to share what I have learnt, in the hope that it can help others.

I live in Manchester in the UK and enjoy going to meetups around Manchester, such as the Manchester Java User Group, Cloud Native and Kubernetes Manchester, the DevOps Society, and the DevOps Exchange.

02. Work

Projects

Portfolio Website

This portfolio — a statically generated site built with Next.js App Router, Tailwind CSS, and Spec-kit.

Skills Hello World

An experiment in reusable agent skills — a hello-world skill that prompts for a programming language and generates correct, runnable source code for it, covering both compiled and interpreted languages.

Switching from Docker to Podman on Ubuntu

A step-by-step guide for migrating from Docker to Podman on Ubuntu, covering full Docker removal, Podman installation, and Docker CLI emulation for a seamless transition.

03. Contact

Get in touch