I’m Phil. Senior infrastructure engineer based in South Wales. Twenty-plus years across enterprise, pharmaceutical, and acquisition-heavy environments.
The Midnight Library is where I write about the other thing. The work I do alongside the day job. The infrastructure I build at home, the tools I’m shaping for how I actually think, and the rabbit holes I fall down when something interesting catches.
And this is Buddy. The French Bulldog. Doesn’t listen, farts, snores, but never leaves my side.
What I do
Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Centerprise International, since April 2026. The day job is hybrid infrastructure work in regulated environments. Windows Server, VMware, Azure, the kind of estate where stability is the deliverable.
Twenty years across enterprise, pharmaceutical, and acquisition-heavy infrastructure. Logicalis, Norgine, Sopra Steria, Veezu, others. The pharmaceutical run at Norgine was the defining one.
The technical centre of gravity has shifted over time. Started in Windows and VMware. Added Azure and Entra as hybrid took over. Picked up Linux, Docker, Proxmox and the open-source side properly during the last few years, partly through the work that became the Midnight Library.
Comfortable in regulated and security-classified environments. Comfortable under pressure.
What this site is
A journal. Honest documentation of someone building real things, finding out what works, and writing about it without the performance.
The Midnight Library covers the home infrastructure I’ve been building since 2024. The Proxmox cluster, the mail and web stack, the vault, the AI work that came later. Some of it overlaps with the day job. Most of it doesn’t. None of it is sponsored or staged.
I write here because I think better when I’m writing, and because the things I’ve built at home are genuinely useful to other people building similar things. That’s it. Not a product, not a course, not a pitch.
Contact
Email: phil@mycloud.wales
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/philipwade-walesuk
If you’ve got something specific you want to talk about, either is fine. No form, no expectations.