A bit about me
I grew up in the Lake District — that’s Buttermere up there — and moved to Saskatoon in 2023. By day I look after the mechanical and building systems in a 175-room care home, which is a good school for fixing things under pressure.
The rest of the time I’m building. Servers, websites, and software — including a finance app my household actually runs on, and PraxiVet, a platform for veterinary clinics. I like problems that are real rather than theoretical.
Honestly, the short version is that I’m a helpful person and I like being useful. If something’s broken, half-finished, or just never got done, I’m happy to take a look — and to tell you straight if it isn’t something I should be doing.
- THE LAKESGrew up in Cumbria. Learned to work with my hands somewhere the weather does not negotiate.
- 2023 · THE MOVECumbria to Saskatoon. Same trade, flatter horizon, considerably colder winter.
- BY DAYFacilities and building systems across a 175-room care home. Boilers, alarms, contractors, callouts.
- BY NIGHTLinux boxes, production databases and things I have had to restore from backup at least once.
What I can help with
Websites
Built properly, hosted properly, and fast. Not a template someone else will charge you monthly to maintain.
Servers and hosting
Linux, Docker, VPNs, backups that have actually been restored from. Setup, migration, or rescuing something that’s gone wrong.
Joining things up
When your invoicing, your files and your email all live in different places and none of them speak to each other.
Things I’ve built
All three run in production on hardware I administer. None of them are demos.
PraxiVet
A clinical-safety and workflow platform for small-animal veterinary clinics, built with a practising veterinary advisor on requirements.
HomeFund
A self-hosted household finance platform — budgeting, bills, savings goals, Canadian mortgage maths and a service-health board. Designed, built and operated by me.
Self-hosted infrastructure
The environment the rest of it runs on. Hypervisor, separated virtual machines and containers, VPN between sites, DNS and TLS, and backups I have had to restore from.
Got work for me?
Tell me what you’re trying to sort out. Saskatoon and area, or remote. I’ll tell you straight whether I’m the right person for it — and if I’m not, I’ll try to point you at someone who is.
or email contact@hanifi.dev