Zachary Claret-Scott

I work on a large-scale data analysis platform that processes millions of data points per day for global manufacturers. My focus is on the import and parsing pipeline, making sure high-volume data ingestion stays fast, reliable, and correct. It's similar thinking to observability at scale: ingesting, transforming, and storing large volumes of structured data under tight performance constraints. I'm also helping with the PHP version migration and maintaining the Vagrant-based development environment.

I founded and have run a commercial UK web hosting company for over 9 years, maintaining 99.9% uptime for business clients. I manage the full stack using Proxmox with LXC containers, automated provisioning and configuration with Ansible, OpenTofu, and NixOS, and monitoring and alerting via VictoriaMetrics, Loki, and Grafana. I handle on-call, write runbooks, run post-incident reviews, and manage the network architecture including DNS, firewalls, SSL/TLS, and mail servers. I've also run Docker Swarm and Rancher Cattle clusters for container workloads. Everything from provisioning and hardening to patching, backups, and capacity planning is on me.

As the sole engineer, I handled the development and deployment of MachineKeeper end to end, a new SaaS platform for the ground care industry. I built the application, set up CI/CD pipelines, automated provisioning with Ansible and Terraform, and managed hosting on AWS. Alongside that, I migrated the legacy TurfKeeper platform, upgrading its PHP stack and moving it onto properly managed infrastructure.

I was brought in to move all development in-house from an external agency, which meant building the dev infrastructure from scratch: CI/CD pipelines, deployment workflows, dev environments, and the team's tooling. I also led the modernization of a legacy codebase and mentored junior developers.

I started this consultancy at university and grew it into a 9-person agency over seven years. I managed all the infrastructure (server provisioning, deployment pipelines, and client hosting) and scaled it as the team and client base grew.

I was selected for this role through a competitive university scholarship. I developed and maintained a custom Android ROM for a specialised hardware security product, doing low-level systems work to get the software and embedded hardware working together reliably.

I worked part-time on the dev team, mostly migrating client websites over to Laravel and upgrading older codebases.

I provided IT support to students and staff, and was picked to help co-lead a campus-wide hardware audit.

I sit on the panel that reviews and recommends councillor allowances each year. We look at comparative data from surrounding councils and produce formal recommendations. This is a remunerated civic role.

I work the polling stations for local and national elections: checking voter ID, helping the public through the process, and handling station setup and close. This is a remunerated civic role.

I re-founded the university's defunct Computer Science Society and grew it to 60+ members with a 300-strong online community. I ran weekly events including hackathons and workshops, and the society is still going today.

I'm doing this part-time to put formal credentials behind the infrastructure experience I've built up running enhost. The course covers cloud architecture, networking, security, and infrastructure-as-code, and includes Azure certification prep (AZ-900, AZ-104, DP-900, AI-900).

I specialised in Robotic Systems in my final year. My dissertation was on fault-tolerant communication protocols for autonomous robots in unreliable field environments, basically keeping systems working when connectivity drops and things go wrong.

A conference paper on a Tinder-style app I helped build to improve how final-year students are matched with dissertation supervisors. The old manual process left over 40% of students with none of their five preferred supervisors. Our system gamified the selection, giving students real-time choice from the available pool and improving both efficiency and satisfaction.