Instrumentation Mechanician · Automation Engineer · Embedded Systems · Field Technologist • Linux · Web

🇿🇦   South Africa   ·   🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿   England

From sensor and microcontroller to Linux server, application and deployed web interface. I build useful systems where industrial automation, embedded electronics, software and the physical world meet.

Red Seal Instrumentation Mechanician with more than a decade of experience in process control, mining and aluminium smelting. I also build small web systems, Arduino instruments, field-computing tools and practical hardware—often entirely from an Android phone using Termux.

Based between England & South Africa.

INDUSTRIAL        PLCs · instrumentation · process control · commissioning
EMBEDDED          Arduino · sensors · data logging · control systems
FIELD COMPUTING   Linux · Termux · low-power hardware · remote monitoring
WEB               Hugo · Git · Cloudflare · static systems · JavaScript
DESIGN            AutoCAD · Fusion 360 · 3D printing · practical fabrication
RELIABILITY       condition monitoring · oil analysis · diagnostics

• Building and deploying complete Hugo websites from Android with Termux, GitHub and Cloudflare
• Developing compact calculators and technical utilities for The Internet Shed
• Exploring remote sensing, low-power field stations and practical environmental telemetry
• Designing industrial reliability systems for contamination control and condition monitoring
• Documenting engineering, natural history and photography from KwaZulu-Natal

Engineering from the device in your pocket.

Android → Termux → Git → Hugo → Cloudflare

Documentation and practical projects for building, publishing, diagnosing networks and interfacing with hardware from Android.

Android Termux Linux Hugo Cloudflare

Local-first property intelligence.

Sensors → LoRa → Linux → Dashboard

A developing architecture for property telemetry, water, power and equipment monitoring.

LoRa ESP32 Linux MQTT Node-RED

A small, efficient field website covering engineering, natural history, photography and experiments. Built with Hugo and published from an Android phone.

Hugo Go Templates Termux Git Cloudflare

A mechanical-interface collection of genuinely useful browser tools: battery runtime, voltage drop, daylight remaining, shadow length, campsite power, antenna length and other field calculations.

JavaScript Progressive Enhancement Offline-first Static Web

Embedded experiments joining sensors, signal conditioning, control logic and useful physical outputs. The emphasis is measurement integrity, maintainability and clear documentation—not novelty for its own sake.

Arduino C/C++ Sensors Control Data Logging

Architecture for combining particle, moisture, dielectric, temperature, pressure, differential-pressure, vibration, ferrous-wear, GPS and CAN data into practical maintenance decisions.

Instrumentation IIoT Condition Monitoring Reliability

1. Observe the real system.
2. Define the useful outcome.
3. Build the smallest dependable version.
4. Measure what it actually does.
5. Document it so another human can reproduce it.

Useful beats fashionable. Working beats impressive. Documented beats mysterious.

The strongest repositories here will be organised into four working shelves:

• AUTOMATION — PLC, instrumentation and process-control references
• EMBEDDED — Arduino, sensors, data loggers and field instruments
• FIELD SYSTEMS — Linux, Termux, networking and low-power computing
• WEB WORKS — Hugo websites, calculators and browser experiments

• Website: coming soon
• Location: Richards Bay, South Africa

_{Most of my recent web work was designed, built, tested and deployed from a Samsung phone—without a laptop.}