About & Contact

About me Link to heading

  • IT Security Engineer,
  • Airbus Pilot,
  • Road runner, currently training to improve half-marathon PB.

This is my corner of the web — part notebook, part project scrapbook.

Most of what’s here started as a problem. I’ve written it up so the next person searching for answers to the same problem can save a few minutes… maybe I’ll even find my own answers again!

What I do Link to heading

IT security & infrastructure monitoring Link to heading

I keep systems alive that remotely monitor critical power systems in hundreds of sites 24/7. This keeps the internet on for over 100,000 homes & businesses, planes safe in the sky, data centres online and manufacturing plants running.

Airbus A320 Pilot & Instructor Link to heading

I also like to build tools to make my job easier.

My biggest project for flying is my personalised logbook. This is a Flask application with offline mode PWA + sync, simulator logging & stats generation. Here’s a visual of my flights & simulator duties in the past year (excluding classroom based instructing):

Flight + Simulator Heatmap

Flight + Simulator Heatmap

The Stack Link to heading

Proxmox · MikroTik · Zabbix & Grafana · restic · MySQL · Git / Github / Gitea · AllQuiet · Jira

Get in touch Link to heading

The best way to reach me is email - hi@xga.ie. If it’s technical, the more detail the better.

Prefer encrypted mail? My public key fingerprint: F1C1 8993 F763 0989 2B6B 4870 10A8 949F B7EE 6B0D. You’ll need to locate a different email address for that key.