Peripatetical
A small portfolio of practical software, built and run by one cloud architect. Each one started as a problem worth solving properly rather than a product looking for a market.
Multi-cloud infrastructure monitoring
Watches Azure, AWS, GCP, Kubernetes and MuleSoft for expiring secrets, idle resources burning budget, and certificates nobody noticed were three days from expiry — and tells you before they become incidents. This is the one born from real operational pain, and it gets the real effort.
Meal planning from a photo of your fridge
Photograph what you already have, and a chef-persona assistant plans the week around it, compares grocery prices, and hands off the order. It is deployed and working — still behind the pre-launch gate while it gets a proper round of testing.
AI-augmented IT runbooks. Queued behind the other two, with no timeline attached — listed here so the portfolio is the whole picture rather than the flattering half.
A single sign-in at auth.peripatetical.com covers everything here. No app keeps its own password.
Read-only access, no agents to install, and every customer's data in its own isolated tenant. Nothing here asks for write permission it does not need.
Fonts are self-hosted, there is no third-party analytics, and no visitor data leaves this site. Your email is used to talk to you and for nothing else.
Peripatetic comes from the Greek peripatētikos — "of walking around." Aristotle taught his students while walking the colonnades of the Lyceum, and his school took its name from the walking rather than from the building.
I chose the name for the way the work happens, and then noticed it described the software. CloudMonitor has no single vantage point to watch from: it walks Azure, AWS, GCP, Kubernetes and MuleSoft in turn and checks each one on the way past — the certificate nobody renewed, the resource nobody switched off, the endpoint that quietly stopped answering. Making the rounds is the product.
Grocery Concierge walks a shorter route and a stranger one. Show it your refrigerator and it takes stock of what is already in there, notices what is about to turn, and checks what the same list costs at each store. The same habit, a different set of doors.
The older sense still describes how the collection was built — fifteen years of cloud work, wandering into a problem and staying long enough to fix it properly. Infrastructure that fails quietly is the problem I know best, so CloudMonitor is the flagship; Grocery Concierge began as a smaller, more domestic annoyance and turned out to deserve the same care. Both are built to the same standard. Only the stakes differ.