About Alex

I've spent 10+ years fixing broken tech for businesses that had no business being as broken as they were. I started as a do-it-all generalist — a bit of everything, wherever the fire was — and since 2019 I've worked as a solution architect, designing systems end-to-end instead of just patching the part that's smoking.

That whole-system view is the point: I don't just fix APIs, I make the tech behind a business actually work — the AI, the automations, the operations, the platforms underneath it all. Ecommerce platform engineering is my strong suit — high-volume order pipelines, multi-carrier shipping and rate shopping, marketplace-carrier-3PL integration — but it's one pillar of a broader practice, not the whole pitch.

I built SKUNK//SYSTEMS because I kept seeing the same problem — good people, good products, completely overwhelmed by the technology that was supposed to help them. No suits. No buzzwords. Just real solutions that actually work.

Most tech fixes patch the symptom — a script here, a bandaid API call there — and the problem just resurfaces somewhere else. A solution architect's job is to fix the system, not just the broken part: understand why it broke, how it connects to everything around it, and build something that stays fixed.

That whole-stack view is exactly why the work spans IT, AI, and operations rather than staying in one API or one platform. You can't design a system that holds together if you only ever look at one corner of it.

AI & Automation: LLMs and AI put to real work, not demos. Automation pipelines built on n8n and Make, agents and workflows that kill the manual busywork.

Business Operations & Systems: Process design, systems that scale, killing the spreadsheet-and-prayer stack, getting your tools to actually talk to each other.

Ecommerce Platform Engineering (the strong suit): High-volume order pipelines, multi-carrier shipping and rate shopping, marketplace-carrier-3PL integration, Shopify GraphQL, webhook-driven fulfilment.

And the glue between them: most of the value is in the integration — making AI, operations, and ecommerce systems work as one thing instead of three.

Hands-on: You talk to the person actually doing the work — no account managers, no hand-offs.

Fixed-scope: Scoped and quoted up front, not billed by the hour. You know what you're paying before I start.

No agency overhead: Just me, which means lower cost and a straight line from problem to fix.

Sydney, AEST + remote: Based in Sydney, working with clients across Australia and remote-friendly clients worldwide.

Plain English: No suits, no buzzwords — I'll tell you what's actually wrong and what it'll take to fix it.