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The Muppit Sphere

Coaching, tools I actually use, stories I needed to tell, and an invitation to connect.

I am Andy, a full-time carer for my disabled wife and our four autistic children. I stepped away from an executive role to be fully present for my family. I balance helping others with caregiving. The two are not separate lives, they feed each other.

If you want to know more about me, see Andy the Muppit.

Never Give Up - handprints on a blue board.

Created by my wife and children to support me before my first ultra marathon (50 km). Each handprint is from one of my children. All of my running medals hang from it. I look at it every day and it provides me with a reminder to never give up.

Muppitify​

Muppitify is my way of aligning engineering craft with human purpose. It is a local-first, modular way of working, with automation and rollback, used in service of something you actually care about.

It blends three areas:

  • Ikigai: work at the overlap of what you care about, what you are good at, what is needed, and what sustains you.
  • Coaching: clarity of intent, small experiments, honest reflection, and accountability so insight turns into action.
  • Engineering: modular design, own-your-core infrastructure, automation with guardrails, and documentation that outlives the author.

In practice that means small, well-named pieces; running the essentials on infrastructure you control; GitOps with rehearsed reversals; and runbooks others can repeat. The aim is the same for clusters and for people: less drift, more deliberate change, and a clear "why" behind each step.

Coaching and mentoring​

I coach people who are carrying too much, stuck on something that still matters to them, or simply trying to rebuild with intention. My work is grounded in experience, not theory.

What I help with:

  • Burnout to clarity: a free 6-week reset to regain energy, focus, and purpose. I have been there myself.
  • Bring your ideas to life: finish long-stuck creative or coding projects with deep coaching and AI-enhanced tools.
  • Mentoring: lived experience on burnout and recovery, caregiving, raising autistic children, career pivots, and technical architecture.
  • Team coaching: help leaders and team members think more clearly and show up with greater confidence.

I combine coaching with engineering. Together we clarify what you are trying to achieve, why it matters, and what good looks like. We break the work into small, testable pieces. I design and build the first versions with you, then leave clear runbooks so you are not dependent on me.

I have completed 70+ hours of ICF-accredited training and was assessed as exceeding the standard for Associate Certified Coach (ACC). I also hold credentials in Brain-Based Coaching and Conversation Skills from the NeuroLeadership Institute.

Missing your purpose, feeling heavy, or stuck on something? No cost, no obligation, no strings - I am at your service. Choose a time that works for you.

Read more about coaching and mentoring with me.

What I build and share​

Active projects​

Local-first tools that solve real problems. These are the five projects I am actively developing:

  • School Platform: a homeschool tracking platform for Western Australia with AI-powered learning, Google Calendar integration, and curriculum coverage tracking.
  • Coach Platform: an AI-powered coaching management platform for session tracking, Zoom recording review, ICF certification progress, and AI-powered session analysis.
  • Flow Control: a self-hosted support tool for health and performance that predicts readiness and visualises flow state from real coding signals.
  • MCP Task Server: an npm package for AI-assisted task management with multi-agent coordination, built to solve Cursor's memory limitations.
  • Personal Data Hub: a journaling system for lazy people, tracking books, shows, health, and fitness in Obsidian with custom scripts, plugins, and Chrome extensions.

See all five in more detail on the active projects page, or browse the full collection including Fitness Coach and Blaster in the application collection.

Personal stories​

How I got here and what I learned along the way:

  • Burnout and recovery: how writing a song helped me understand and recover from burnout, including the physical recovery steps from December 2023 to May 2024.
  • Original songs: a catalogue of my original music with embedded audio playback.
  • Musings: LinkedIn posts and personal reflections on building, burnout, and local-first tools.

Kubernetes runbooks​

Design choices, setup, operations, and proven workflows:

Where possible, each page follows the same shape so you can move quickly: context for when and why to use it; prerequisites with versions, access, and gotchas; the steps and what to expect; quick checks to verify it worked; a rollback path if it did not; and brief notes from real use as evidence.

Who this helps​

  • People who are burnt out, stuck, or carrying too much and need someone to listen.
  • Coaches developing their practice who want peer support and curated resources.
  • Practitioners who usually build in the cloud and are now exploring on-premises, where internal certificates and routing are your responsibility.
  • Practitioners who want dependable routines and clear, proven runbooks.
  • Teams that value privacy, control, and predictable costs.
  • Solo operators and small businesses with a limited budget who want to avoid ongoing cloud fees.
  • Builders who care about owning their data and running tools locally.

I show small clusters that perform well without unnecessary overhead that can scale to enterprise-grade when needed.

tip

Play Blaster, then build your own.
Play the retro Blaster game at https://blaster.muppit.au, try to beat the high score, then follow the Blaster GitOps series to build and host your own game or app. When yours is live, message me the link.

For technical details on how I build, see Technical foundations.

Why I am sharing this​

I learn by doing and by building my own version. When something works, I write it up so others can use it, and I keep it current. You will see rough edges, decisions, and results, not just a tidy end state.

It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.

Four rules I keep coming back to​

  • Fit for purpose: solve the real problem, not the imagined one.
  • Automatic: repeatable with minimal manual steps.
  • Observable: easy to see what is happening and why.
  • Reversible: change it, and change it back safely.

Finding my tribe​

If you build instead of accepting limitations, care about privacy and owning your data, or want to simplify rather than add complexity, I would love to connect. Not to sell you anything or grow a following, just to find others who think the same way. To support and help each other with no strings attached.

Please connect with me on LinkedIn: Andrew Reid.

Missing your purpose, feeling heavy, or stuck on something? No cost, no obligation, no strings - I am at your service. Please choose a time that works for you on my scheduling page.

If you found value here, you can support ongoing development and free coaching by supporting my work and donating through my support page.

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