Christian | Technologist | Consultant | Author | Leader
Principal Consultant at @Ensono Digital, focusing on delivering Site Reliability Engineering-based technology operations for clients.
I started writing code on a second-hand ZX Spectrum before I was 10, then migrated through Visual Basic, Turbo Pascal, Delphi, Ada, Java, and many more languages along the way. Today, I live and breathe DevSecOps and Site Reliability Engineering — championing best practices like:
- 🔄 Continuous Deployment & Systems Thinking
- 📊 Reducing Feedback Cycles & Configuration Management
- 🏗️ Infrastructure as Code & Cloud Architecture
- 🔐 Cybersecurity & Identity Management
| Project | Description | Tech |
|---|---|---|
| dotfiles | 🔧 Personal configuration files managed with chezmoi |  |
| richard-slater.co.uk | 🌐 Personal website and tech blog |  |
| bromcom-timetable-formatter | 📅 Timetable formatting utility |  |
| Platform | Reputation | Focus Areas |
|---|---|---|
 | 6,400+ | C#, PowerShell, Azure |
 | 11,800+ | DevOps, AWS, Azure, Terraform |
 | 3,200+ | Systems Administration |
- 📖 What is the definition of "cattle not pets"? — 99+ score
- 🚶 What is a "Walking Skeleton"? — 54+ score
- 📊 How do you calculate compound SLAs for cloud services? — 53+ score
- 🧪 How to test a Terraform Configuration? — 51+ score
- 🏢 Principal Consultant at Ensono Digital
- ☕ Contributing to Ensono Stacks (Java, NX Plugins, Azure Fabric)
- 🔐 Building cybersecurity tools, cheatsheets, and playbooks
- 📝 Writing technical articles on my blog
- 🖥️ Creating a basic Development Environment for RISC-V
- 🔑 Using GPG keys stored on a YubiKey for SSH Authentication
Send me encrypted files using age:
age1yubikey1qt6zautna4lcmenq8l53ahtzyup24krm7xnls3q9a2ufxefxjjeev6443s3
age -r age1yubikey1qt6zautna4lcmenq8l53ahtzyup24krm7xnls3q9a2ufxefxjjeev6443s3 -o secret.txt.age secret.txt- 🏗️ DevOps & SRE — CI/CD pipelines, GitOps, Platform Engineering
- ☁️ Cloud Architecture — Azure, AWS, GCP multi-cloud strategies
- 🔐 Cybersecurity — Identity management, secure development practices
- 🧪 Infrastructure as Code — Terraform, Ansible, Pulumi
- 📊 Microservices — Design patterns, observability, resilience
- 🎮 Former Lead Developer on EVEMon — a character manager for EVE Online
- 📷 I'm also into photography
- 🏔️ Proud Arctic Code Vault Contributor
- 👨💻 Coding for 35+ years and counting!
"Infrastructure as code, culture as a service"
