I am now officially trying the freelance approach to employment (complete with my first project, thanks to Tim Small)

I have my own limited company, lots of highly marketable skills (Linux (high availability and clustering), Java, Perl, etc) and lots of real life experience making a large web application work better, faster and stay alive longer.

Things I am particularly interested in (and have strong experience of) working on at the moment are:- * large web application deployments * Java debugging, profiling and optimization * Server automation, eg Puppet * Shibboleth consultancy and support

I am happy to provide advice, consultancy and planning services as well as to get involved in parts of or complete larger projects. Tim and I also have a strong working relationship and we are able to offer joint services where extra man power or speed of delivery are required.

Please let me know if you're interested or would like further information.