OnlyASCII

Contact

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Need a Cloud Foundry or BOSH platform run, rescued or retired? Want to talk reliability, automation, or where AI fits into platform operations? Drop a line — the quickest route is email.

Legal & Company Information

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OnlyASCII Games

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The name OnlyASCII isn’t only about the console where the platform work happens. It’s also a promise about a kind of game.

In the 90s, multi-user dungeons (MUDs) ran entirely in text — and yet they were richer, stranger and more social than most of what came after. No textures, no cutscenes; just words, a prompt, and your imagination doing the rendering. They triggered the mind in a way pixels rarely do.

Open Source

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A consultancy’s best credential is verifiable work. Over the years I’ve contributed to the open-source projects that the platforms I run are built on — implementing features, maintaining releases, and giving back to the Cloud Foundry & BOSH community.

Services

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OnlyASCII is a one-person consultancy with the depth of a much larger team in one specific place: running platforms reliably. Engagements typically start with Cloud Foundry or BOSH and grow into broader reliability, automation and platform-engineering work.

whoami

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I consider myself, primarily, a software engineer — one who acted on the frustration of continuously breaking systems and decided to find and fix the root causes. Early in my career I started automating anything that felt like a boring or repetitive task, and found I had a knack for it.

I was acting as a DevOps or Site Reliability Engineer before those roles had names. From the mainframes of yesteryear to the cloud-native architectures of today — Puppet, Chef, Jenkins, Vagrant; I was there. Infrastructure as Code, continuous integration and containerisation came as a natural evolution. I can’t go back to anything else. I want to go beyond.

Work

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Since 2019, OnlyASCII Ltd has delivered production-engineering and SRE work for organisations running Cloud Foundry at serious scale — government, banking and enterprise platforms, including air-gapped and highly-governed environments. The engagements marked via OnlyASCII were delivered under the company; earlier roles show where the expertise came from.