Technical Toolkit

Technologies & Tools

A practical inventory of platforms, systems and tools I have worked with across different projects and periods of my career. The mix ranges from long-term production technologies to tools used for specific engagements and problem areas.

Cybersecurity & Investigation

Security analysis, reconnaissance, troubleshooting and defensive operations.

Maltego SpiderFoot Recon-ng Shodan Kali Linux Metasploit Wireshark Nmap Greenbone / OpenVAS Fortinet FortiGate SonicWall Cloudflare

Cloud & Edge

Cloud infrastructure, CDN, DNS, security and distributed application delivery.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Alibaba Cloud (Aliyun) Cloudflare Cloudflare APO CDN & edge caching

Linux & Server Infrastructure

Linux has been a core part of my production web and application stack for many years.

Debian Ubuntu Pop!_OS Red Hat Fedora CentOS Apache HTTP Server LAMP Virtualization Zimbra

Microsoft & Enterprise IT

Business infrastructure, identity, workstation and server environments.

Windows Server Active Directory Microsoft 365 / Office Exchange Windows 10 / 11 Microsoft IIS Classic ASP

Networking & Communications

Business networks, multi-site connectivity, security appliances and communications systems.

Cisco VPN connectivity Routing & switching Linksys Netgear ShoreTel / ShoreGear VoIP IVR systems

Development & Ecommerce

Web applications, ecommerce platforms, APIs and custom business systems.

PHP WordPress WooCommerce Magento MedusaJS Shopify CodeIgniter Symfony Fuel CMS REST APIs SendGrid transactional email HTML / CSS / JavaScript

Databases & Data

Application databases, reporting, data integration and performance work.

MySQL MariaDB Microsoft SQL Server Database design Query analysis Data warehousing Data mining

WordPress Performance

Tools I have actually used while diagnosing and tuning production WordPress/WooCommerce sites.

Super Page Cache Asset CleanUp Debloat Query Monitor Redis Object Cache WP Rocket Cloudflare APO PHP OPcache

Delivery & Service Management

Project, service-management and operational tooling used across teams and client environments.

ITIL / ITSM Jira Asana Freshworks / Freshservice Redmine Trello

Technology lists age quickly. The more useful question is usually not whether I have seen a particular product name before, but whether I understand the underlying system well enough to diagnose, evaluate or integrate it. For the broader capability view, see Capabilities & Skills.