Marcus Hale

About

I design and run small-scale network and compute infrastructure for teams that need senior judgment without the overhead of a full agency. Most of my work is Linux, edge routing, and the boring plumbing that keeps a service up on a Tuesday night.

Long engagements, short audits, occasional 24/7 on-call windows. No marketing site fluff — if you want references or sample reports, just ask and I will send them.

What I do

• Edge networking BGP, policy routing, anycast, IPv6 dual-stack
• Private cloud Proxmox / KVM, Ceph, Talos, backups, DR drills
• Linux systems Hardening, performance, capacity planning, automation
• Incident response Postmortem, root-cause, fix-and-document

How I work

• Fixed-scope or monthly retainer; no surprise invoices.
• Everything I deploy is reproducible from a checked-in config.
• Documentation is part of the deliverable, not a bonus.
• I prefer boring, well-supported tools over shiny new ones.

Contact

Best reached by email: hello@marcushale.example
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