Sam Brady · Leeds, United Kingdom
I design, deliver and support infrastructure change in places where failure has an immediate operational consequence.
My work sits across Windows platforms and applications, networks, security, data integration, technical delivery and hands-on support—most of it inside live, 24/7 critical infrastructure.
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10+
years across enterprise technology
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Campus-wide
network and fibre transformation across a live estate
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24/7
operational environments that cannot simply stop
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End to end
from requirement to supportable handover
One practice, three disciplines
See the whole system
Turn an uncertain requirement into a design that accounts for security, resilience, dependencies, cost and the reality of getting there safely.
Make the design real
Stay close to implementation, migration and testing. The detail found during delivery is part of the technical work, not somebody else’s problem.
Follow the fault to the truth
Diagnose across boundaries, remain useful under pressure and leave knowledge behind. Strong support is technical judgement made visible.
Technical centre of gravity
My deepest hands-on specialism: Windows clients and servers, Active Directory, PowerShell and Windows application support across identity, databases, networks and suppliers.
Strong SQL Server and systems-integration capability, including operational data flows and enabling Microsoft Fabric inside an established enterprise environment.
Virtualisation, compute, physical installation, migration and Veeam recovery—designed as one service rather than separate hardware and backup tasks.
Campus switching and fibre, resilient cabinets and power, firewalls, secure access, OT segmentation and redundant external connectivity.
Support as a technical discipline
Support is where technical understanding gets tested. You have incomplete information, a real consequence, and a system that is behaving differently from the explanation everyone has been given. I enjoy that work: finding the signal, following it across layers and making the situation clearer for everyone involved.
That ability makes me a better designer and delivery lead. I think about failure behaviour, observability, documentation and the person who will receive the call later—because supportability is an architecture decision long before it becomes a support problem.
Read: Supportability is an architecture decisionSelected work
Campus network transformation
A campus-wide core, access and fibre transformation: new cabinets, resilient power and uplinks, 55 live switch replacements and complete fibre renewal delivered by contractors to my specification.
Operational data platform
A major move from a legacy platform to SaaS, spanning requirements, interfaces, migration, structured testing, cutover and support across a live operational ecosystem.
Virtual infrastructure
A new two-host cluster and separate failover host, physical installation and cabling, workload migration, and Veeam Backup & Replication configured as one resilience project.
Operational security
A highly available firewall boundary, newly generated rules and IPS-enabled inspection replaced legacy Layer 3 switches whose gateway configuration had become the access model.
Integrated project delivery
Several connected technology workstreams brought through design, contractor coordination, technical assurance and operational readiness alongside the wider construction programme.
Local business support
I am available for selected support and consultancy work with small and growing businesses in Leeds and West Yorkshire—from Wi-Fi and new computers to Windows servers, difficult application faults, backup and practical technology planning.
Solve a difficult issue
Deliver a defined improvement
Provide ongoing senior support
Independent product work
Sam — Sort All Money is a native iOS money-planning app currently in development. It gives me a different version of the same work: understand a real problem, reduce complexity, build the system and support the person depending on it.
Explore Sam
Start with the problem