Topic: Engineering

Securing GitHub Actions in the Enterprise · Part 1

Securing GitHub Actions Is a Hard Problem

GitHub Actions combines third-party executable code, privileged CI/CD environments and complex event-driven behaviour. Securing it requires far more than pinning versions or restricting the Marketplace.

Engineering for outsized impact with small teams

How small platform teams use constraints, automation, self-service, reliability, and careful technology choices to create disproportionate organisational impact.

Building a Personal Cloud · Part 1

I Never Meant to Build a Personal Cloud

What began as a home AI lab became a personal platform for experimentation, self-hosting, learning, and building future capabilities.

The runner was easy. The platform was the real engineering

Self-hosting a GitHub Actions runner is easy. Turning runners into a secure, scalable, self-service organisational capability is a platform-engineering problem.

How judgement, not technical skill, defines a senior engineer

Why technical ability is only the foundation of seniority, and sound judgement determines who can be trusted with consequential engineering decisions.

Designing a personal learning platform

What if you approached learning like a platform engineer—building a system that makes every future capability easier to acquire?