I ran incident command at Meta’s TOC, managing critical severity events across EMEA hyperscale data centres. Now I run production infrastructure for international clients from a sailboat near Barcelona. Looking for roles where infrastructure, security, AI, and marine systems converge — including superyacht IT/AV and maritime technology consulting.
18 years building and securing systems — from hyperscale data centres and critical national infrastructure at LSEG, through to cloud platforms, Docker/Kubernetes workloads, and AI infrastructure. I also bring deep marine systems expertise: Victron energy systems, onboard networking, satellite communications, and marine electronics. I live on a sailboat, so I understand what “remote” actually means. I’m autistic, which for operational work is a genuine advantage — I spot anomalies in complex data that most people miss. Based between London and Barcelona, available for permanent, contract, or rotation-based roles (remote UK/EU, superyacht rotations).
18 years designing and deploying secure network architectures across enterprise, data centre, and maritime environments. Cisco switching, OSPF routing, SD-WAN multi-site bonding, Cloudflare Zero Trust, and structured cabling including fibre.
Multi-cloud architecture across AWS, Azure, GCP, and bare-metal providers. 18 servers running production across Hetzner, DigitalOcean, and InMotion. Container orchestration with Docker and Kubernetes, self-hosted Coolify for PaaS, and CI/CD pipeline design for production deployments.
Zero Trust architecture design, enterprise endpoint protection (ESET training lead, Bitdefender, Defender), SIEM deployment (Splunk, ELK), compliance frameworks (SOC 2, PCI DSS, GDPR), penetration testing, and self-hosted security recon (reNgine, Kali Linux).
Meta TOC — managed SEVs (Severity Events), coordinated cross-team wake-up trees, routed to DBA/networking/power teams. On-call operational leadership across EMEA, managing GSOC escalation and critical outage response across hyperscale infrastructure.
Full IT lifecycle management from procurement to decommissioning. MDM with Intune/Autopilot, service desk platforms (ServiceNow, Zendesk, Freshdesk), backup and disaster recovery with Veeam and Acronis.
Hypervisor management across VMware vSphere, Hyper-V, Proxmox VE, and Citrix. Sizing, deploying, and maintaining virtualised infrastructure for enterprise workloads and homelab environments alike.
Production code in Python, TypeScript, Rust, PowerShell, Bash, and Go. Full-stack applications with React/Next.js, Node.js, and SQL. AI/ML development with Hugging Face, LangChain, and custom agent frameworks. Infrastructure automation with Terraform and Puppet. Linux and Windows Server administration.
Core speciality — 10+ years designing and delivering PACS/ACS for hyperscale data centres and critical infrastructure. Gallagher, CCURE 9000, Genetec, Avigilon, and Milestone VMS. End-to-end commissioning of Axis, Bosch, and Commend hardware.
Full-time liveaboard sailor with thousands of offshore miles. Designed and installed complete Victron energy systems (solar, MPPT, lithium, inverters). Marine electronics and protocols: NMEA 2000, SeaTalk, Signal K. Built Raspberry Pi marine navigation system with sensor networks. Engine maintenance (diesel). RYA Day Skipper, VHF license, ICC certified.
RIBA Stages 2–5 delivery of ICT and security infrastructure for data centres and commercial developments. CAD/BIM review, design specifications, vendor coordination, commissioning, and handover documentation.
Built a crypto trading agent in Rust that orchestrates three local LLMs. Experienced with MCP (Model Context Protocol), CrewAI, LangGraph, and function calling. I design agent systems for production — not the kind that work in a demo and fall over at scale.
Production RAG pipelines — architecture, chunking strategies, retrieval optimisation. Vector databases (ChromaDB, Qdrant, pgvector), embedding model selection, Graph RAG with knowledge graphs. Have built and run these end-to-end, so I know where they break.
Model quantisation (GGUF, GPTQ, AWQ), inference optimisation, local deployment of open-weight models. Run Ollama and LM Studio daily. Self-hosted inference on Mac and Kubernetes. I know when to quantise and when a smaller model is the better answer.
Comfortable with DeepSeek, Llama, Mistral, and Qwen model families. Proficient on Hugging Face — pipelines, inference endpoints, model hubs. I follow the open-weight model space closely and have a soft spot for Liquid AI’s smaller-fewer-parameters approach.
GPU cloud platforms for training and inference. Understanding of data sovereignty and regulated workloads from Meta SEV experience. Can design the infrastructure layer for AI deployments — compute, networking, storage, and security — in environments where data locality matters.
AI-assisted coding workflows with Cursor, Copilot, and Kilo Code. LLM-powered content generation and RSS automation pipelines. Built AI applications for WordPress, Chrome extensions, and SaaS platforms. Multilingual AI work including cross-lingual embeddings and model routing by language.
The question I ask most: does this actually need AI? Cost optimisation mindset from running real infrastructure. Know when an API call is enough, when self-hosting makes sense, when fine-tuning pays off, and when you should just write a script. Active in AI tooling communities — early adopter, not a hype chaser.
Full email deliverability stack for 10+ client domains: DMARC, DKIM, SPF, SSL certificate lifecycle management, and spam/malware protection. Multi-TLD DNS management, CDN and QUIC configuration. Web server management across OpenLiteSpeed, Apache, and Nginx with cPanel administration.
VoIP/SIP deployment with 3CX and Teams Calling. Linux system administration (Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS). WordPress/WP-CLI site management, structured cabling, fibre termination, and UPS/power monitoring.
Production SaaS for French municipalities managing wastewater inspections. Offline-first PWA with React 19, TypeScript, Supabase, FastAPI PDF generation, i18n (FR/EN), and Recharts dashboards. Built solo with AI-assisted development, deployed with CI/CD.
View project →Advanced WordPress plugin for AI-driven content generation with multi-LLM routing (OpenAI, Claude, OpenRouter), SEO optimisation via RankMath, RSS filtering, scheduled publishing, and fallback handling. Production-deployed.
github.com/scottnzuk/ContentPilot →Full IT management for a 25+ year RYA sailing school in Gosport Marina. Dockerised WordPress hosting (OpenLiteSpeed + MariaDB), SSL management, SEO optimisation, content strategy, and Tripadvisor/Google review management.
View project →Full IT management for a NZ-based natural pet food e-commerce store. WooCommerce/WordPress with Elementor, product catalogue, cart/checkout, customer accounts, shipping configuration, and email marketing integration.
View project →Key engineering contributor for Meta’s greenfield hyperscale data centre in Clonee, Dublin. Managed ICT and security infrastructure design, vendor coordination, commissioning, and integration with MEP works. All phases delivered on time and within budget.
View project →Full system migration and greenfield design for London data centre campus. End-to-end delivery including stakeholder coordination, vendor management, and commissioning. Detailed design specs, CAD/BIM drawings, and technical documentation.
View project →Planned and executed zero-downtime migration of critical infrastructure across 4 new EMEA data centre facilities. Designed phased migration strategy with redundant failover, maintained 100% availability during all live cutovers. Standardised approach adopted as EMEA regional template.
View project →Security and ICT infrastructure for Meta’s Reality Labs R&D office in Cork City centre (Capitol Building, Grand Parade). Access control, CCTV, and network design for hardware engineering and semiconductor R&D facility housing 90+ researchers across 30 nationalities.
View project →Physical security systems and ICT infrastructure for Meta’s London offices at 10 Brock Street, Regent’s Place and the King’s Cross campus. Access control, CCTV, and intercom deployment across 320,000 sq ft of West End office space.
View project →Physical and electronic security for critical national infrastructure at LSEG’s London campus. Access control system design, CCTV architecture, and intercom integration. Commend, Bosch, and Axis deployment across the trading floor and campus facilities.
View project →Founded and operated independent IT consultancy delivering enterprise infrastructure architecture, system integration, and technical advisory. Clients included The Shard, King’s College London, UCL, National Grid, and City Bank. Managed full business operations and project delivery.
View project →Built and published AI-powered developer tools: an automated WordPress news aggregation plugin with AI-generated summaries (OpenAI), and a curated AI prompt library Chrome extension. Both published and available on GitHub and the Chrome Web Store.
github.com/scottnzuk →Scott is a highly skilled individual, a great communicator, a people’s person and someone who delivers. He is an asset and would add value to any company he walks into.
Gavin Singh UK Services Manager at Meta (M.C. Dean)
Scott kept our studio running through some of the most intense production cycles. When you’re a 3D design studio with tight deadlines, you can’t afford IT downtime. He designed our network, managed the render farm, and handled everything from security to end-user support. A rare mix of deep technical knowledge and genuine people skills.
Creative Director O-Negativ (3D Design Studio)