Linux infrastructure for organisations where security, privacy, and reliability matter.
I'm Miguel Jacq. I help small and specialist teams run systems safely: untangling inherited Linux estates, automating change, hardening security, improving monitoring and recovery.
Working on production systems since 2007. Fully remote from Melbourne, Australia.
Evidence, audits and your ISMS.
With help from KEEN’s creator.
I install and maintain KEEN on your infrastructure, with optional help connecting evidence, migrating your ISMS and preparing for audits.
Application Care: AUD 500/month. Standard installation: AUD 1,500, waived with 12 months of care paid upfront. Prices exclude GST; monthly care has a three-month initial commitment.
Open source. Your choice of hosting. No per-user licence fees.
When I tend to be useful
The technology varies. The recurring theme is infrastructure that matters, has accumulated complexity, and needs experienced hands without a wholesale rewrite.
- Production has become something nobody wants to touch.
- Too much depends on one person's memory or undocumented "tribal knowledge".
- Deployments are manual, fragile, or difficult to roll back.
- Backups exist, but nobody is very confident about restoring them.
- Security or compliance requirements have outgrown the current setup.
- An incident exposed gaps in monitoring, access control, or recovery.
- Sensitive data means the usual SaaS or outsourcing assumptions need more scrutiny.
- A small team needs senior infrastructure depth without another full-time hire.
Make important infrastructure less fragile.
Understand & stabilise
Map inherited systems, find the dangerous assumptions, fix the immediate risks, and make changes safer.
Automate & document
Turn snowflakes and manual procedures into reproducible configuration, pipelines, and playbooks.
Harden & control
Practical hardening, identity, encryption, secrets, logging, patching, and audit-friendly change.
Detect & recover
Monitoring that tells you what matters, backups you can restore, and recovery plans you can actually execute.
Mission matters to me, too.
I particularly value work with organisations concerned with security, privacy, human rights, civil society, public-interest technology, and open source. That isn't a requirement; it's simply where a lot of my work and interests have converged.
I also work with web agencies when the problem is a good fit. The common denominator is taking the systems, the risks, and the people affected by them seriously.