About
A senior engineer who fixes things properly.
I'm Mel, the engineer behind TechSpike. For more than25 years I've built, scaled and rescued websites and software platforms, including systems serving millions of users. I've spent a long career being the person brought in to make critical things work — and to keep them working.
TechSpike is where I bring that same senior engineering to small and medium businesses directly. Not through a layer of account managers and junior staff — you deal with me. The person who actually does the work, and who actually cares whether it's done right.
I started this because too many business owners have been burned: a “quick fix” that broke three other things, a developer who vanished mid-job, an invoice that kept climbing with no end in sight. A working website matters too much to be left to guesswork. You deserve someone who treats it with the seriousness it deserves — and tells you the truth along the way.
Mel
Senior Cloud & Platform Engineer · the engineer behind TechSpike
- Experience
- 25+ yrs
- You deal with
- Me, directly
How I work
The way I'd want someone to treat my own business.
I tell you the truth
Even when it's not what you hoped — that something's a quick fix, or that a rebuild is the smarter spend. You can't make good decisions on spin.
I agree the price first
You approve a fixed price before I start. No open-ended hourly meter ticking away while you worry about the bill.
I work carefully
Backups before changes, a staging copy where it matters, and a check of the whole site afterwards. Your site should leave better than it arrived — never worse.
I explain my work
You get a plain-english summary of what I changed and why, so you stay in control of your own website long after I'm done.
Let's fix your website — properly.
Tell me what's wrong and I'll give you an honest assessment. No obligation, no hard sell.
No obligation. A real person — me — replies personally.