I start with an audit of your current setup — servers, CI/CD, queues, workers, monitoring, backups, and security posture. Then I produce a prioritized punch list: what is likely to break next and what it will take to fix it. Implementation follows, usually beginning with the single most dangerous gap.

Both. I provision and harden Linux servers (Ubuntu/Debian), configure Nginx/Apache, set up Docker or bare-metal deployments, and establish monitoring, log aggregation, and alerting. I also offer ongoing server management as a retainer for teams that need production reliability but do not need a full-time DevOps hire.

AWS, DigitalOcean, and Hetzner are the environments I work in most. I have also deployed on Google Cloud and Linode. I prefer managed services where they reduce operational toil (RDS, SQS, S3, Managed Databases) and bare Linux where they do not.

I design job pipelines using Laravel queues with Redis or database drivers, with Horizon for monitoring. I set up supervisor for worker processes, handle failure retries and dead-letter queues, and ensure jobs are idempotent — because a duplicate charge or a dropped webhook is not acceptable.

Yes. I configure health checks, uptime monitoring, error tracking, queue depth alerts, and disk/CPU/memory thresholds. The goal is that you hear about a problem before a customer does. I use a mix of Laravel Telescope, Sentry, server-level monitoring, and custom health endpoints.