Engineering Portfolio
HouseJackson

Hello, I'm Mitchell HouseJackson

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About

Welcome

I'm Mitchell, a UK-based cloud architect and engineering leader with over a decade in IT. Started on a helpdesk, ended up owning the architecture behind platforms serving a quarter of a million people.

Part portfolio, part HomeProd showcase, part landing page for friends and family who need into something I host. Employers and collaborators: start here.

20+ Years on Linux Started on Mandriva at 14. Kernel 2.6. Still no regrets.
10+ Years in IT Helpdesk to cloud architect. I took the scenic route.
5+ Years in Leadership Turns out people skills matter. Who knew.
250k+ Users Served Across platforms I've designed, built, and still own.
Expertise

What I Do

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Cloud Architecture

AWS-native design, multi-account orgs, and IaC at scale. Infrastructure that doesn't need babysitting.

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AI Integration

LLM orchestration, data-sovereign deployments, and tooling that saves actual time -- not pitch decks about saving time.

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Platform Engineering

Observability, pipelines, and developer experience. A good platform makes everything easier; a bad one makes everything everyone's problem.

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Technical Leadership

Strategy, mentoring, and translating engineering decisions into something the rest of the business can act on.

Personal

The Important Stats

The professional stuff is above. Here's what actually matters.

🐧 Desktop Distro Fedora
🖥️ Desktop Environment KDE
🖧 Server Distro Ubuntu
💡 Smart Lights 28
Coffees Per Day 4
🖥️ Monitors 3
⌨️ Keyboard Modified Redragon K551
Tabs or Spaces Tabs. Obviously.
📝 Editor Nano. I will die on this hill.
🐱 Cat 1 Sudo
🐱 Cat 2 Nano

* If the cat called "Nano" can't judge me for not using Vim, neither can you.

Technical

Skills & Expertise

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Cloud & Infrastructure

AWSTerraformProxmoxCloudFormation

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DevOps & Automation

CI/CDDockerIaCn8n

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Observability

GrafanaPrometheusLokiOTEL

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AI & ML

AWS BedrockLangChainn8nLLMs

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Security

Zero TrustOPNsenseWazuhCrowdSec

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Platforms & Apps

MoodleNextcloudMailcowRocket.Chat

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Leadership & Strategy

ArchitectureMentoringStrategyBudget

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Linux & Systems

UbuntuFedoraBashNetworking

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Transparency

A note on how this was built: I'm an engineer, not a web developer. I worked with Atlas, my self-hosted AI assistant, to put this together -- the words, ideas, and infrastructure are mine; Atlas handled the Astro and CSS, because I'm decent at Python but genuinely terrible at margins.