Harry Axford
IT Technician →Linux Sysadmin →Cloud Engineer
IT Engineer · Junior DevOps · Cloud Support · Systems Administrator· London, UK
About
IT Technician with 3 years supporting multi-site educational environments across the Croydon area. Primary contact for two academies within a seven-school cluster — independent ownership of day-to-day operations and infrastructure.Specializing in Microsoft Intune, Apple device management (Jamf → Intune migration), and M365 administration. Comfortable with Azure, Cisco Meraki networking, and on-premises server infrastructure.When documentation didn't exist, I built a cluster-wide knowledge base from scratch — documenting IPs, VLANs, device configs, and site processes. It's now maintained by the whole team.Daily driver: Linux + Neovim. Also running MacOS — because sometimes you just need a Mac.
Projects
HAXFORD - SearxNG
FEATUREDPrivacy-focused search interface using Next.js API routes as a smart proxy. Aggregates results from multiple public SearXNG instances for resilience.
Password Generator
Browser-based secure password generator focusing on DOM manipulation.
Basketball Scoreboard
Interactive scoreboard with real-time state management.
Jellyfin Request Plugin
AI AssistedIn ProgressA Jellyfin plugin that adds a one-click request button to movie and TV show detail pages. Requests are sent directly to your Jellyseerr instance.
Infrastructure / Homelab
- Proxmox virtualisation with LXC containers
- Unraid NAS with NFS/SMB integration
- UniFi networking stack
- Docker Compose deployments
- "Diagnosed storage bottleneck by identifying containers incorrectly stored on network storage vs local NVMe"
Skills
Infrastructure
Proxmox, Docker, LXC, Unraid, UniFi
Microsoft
Intune, Active Directory, M365, Azure fundamentals
Languages
JavaScript, Python (learning), Bash, Lua
Tools
Neovim, Git, Linux
Platforms
Linux, macOS, Windows
Certifications
Level 3 Azure Support Specialist
Distinction (2025)
CompTIA Network+
In Progress
RHCSA
Planned