I dig under the surface until the magic stops being magic.

I'm Alex — UK-based, working as a support engineer and taking on practical freelance work around technical troubleshooting, automation, integrations, scripts, logs, SQL, and small internal tools.

In parallel, I'm building a bottom-up path through networking, Linux, Kubernetes, web security, and cloud. My approach is simple: build tiny labs, break them, prove what happened, and write down the parts that finally clicked.

The useful bit is proof: commands, logs, packet captures, diagrams, and notes that show what actually happened rather than just repeating definitions.