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The Muppit Sphere

Welcome, I am Andy, based in Perth, Western Australia with over thirty-five years of experience across IT, communications and engineering. From my first role as a junior network engineer through technical consultant, solutions architect, IT manager, CIO, and most recently Group Head of AI and Special Projects where I designed, built, and operated production AI systems hands-on.

I am an engineer at heart, always have been, always will be.

I left corporate life in early 2025 to focus on my family. I now do three things: coach IT, communication and engineering professionals, take selective consulting engagements on complex technical problems, and build software for the work I care about.

Inaugural Information Technology Awards, 2022

Created by my wife and children it provides me with a reminder to never give up.

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

Coaching​

I coach IT, communication and engineering professionals one-to-one. Helpdesk, engineer, senior engineer, architect, security and cyber analyst, and operational roles. The people who keep companies running and rarely get coached.

If you are good at your job, surrounded by dysfunction, frustrated and tired of being the only one who cares, I can help you think through it. Whether you are staying, considering leaving, or already out and deciding what is next.

I work with individual contributors, not managers or executives.

Read more about coaching with me or book a session.

Consulting​

I take short engagements on complex cross-domain technical problems other people have been unable to solve. The work calls for tenacity as much as technical depth. Many of the problems I get called into have already had multiple people attempt to fix them. What I bring is a methodical approach, and a wide enough background across IT, networking, infrastructure, and current production AI to see the connections between domains.

Specifically: the intermittent issue impacting your business or your clients, the integration that keeps failing, the production issue that nobody has been able to identify the root cause of.

Read more about consulting with me.

Software and infrastructure​

I build local-first software and run on infrastructure I control. The projects below solve problems I actually have, and I share them so others can use or learn from them.

Active projects​

These are the six projects I am actively developing:

  • Muppitify® Transcript Prep: redact coaching transcripts locally before sharing them anywhere. Free local app for macOS and Windows.
  • Muppitify® Coaching Platform: a coaching platform for ICF certification with session tracking, recording management, and progress monitoring. Available as Desktop, Vault (Obsidian), Server, and K8s editions. All core features work offline. AI cross-session insights with a range of local and cloud providers. Zoom and Google Calendar integrations.
  • School Platform: a homeschool tracking platform for Western Australia with AI study unit generation, Google Calendar integration, and curriculum coverage tracking.
  • 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 six 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.

Muppitify​

Muppitify® is my way of aligning engineering craft with human purpose. It is the umbrella for everything on this site: the coaching, the consulting, and the software. Read more about the philosophy and what it means.

Who this helps​

  • IT, communication and engineering professionals who are stuck, frustrated, or considering their next move.
  • Companies with complex cross-domain technical problems that have resisted previous attempts.
  • Coaches developing their practice who want curated resources and local-first tools.
  • Practitioners exploring on-premises infrastructure where internal certificates and routing are your responsibility.
  • Solo operators and small businesses who want to avoid ongoing cloud fees.
  • Builders who care about owning their data and running tools locally.
build your own game

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.

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.

Connect on LinkedIn: Andrew Reid.

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