Zachary Claret-Scott

About

I'm Zach, a 30 year old technical engineer based in Kingston Upon Hull. This is my corner of the internet — a place to track the things I care about, from hunting down the oldest pub in every city to cataloguing everything I watch (and binge), read, and listen to.

Have a look at what I'm up to now, the stuff I use, or find me elsewhere.

By the Numbers

At a Glance

Work
• Founder & Principal Consultant at Claret-Scott & Co
• Founder & Infrastructure Engineer at enhost
Education
• Masters of Science - Cloud Computing (In Progress - Expected 2026/27), University of Lincoln
• Bachelor of Science - Computer Science, University of Lincoln
• BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma (3x A Level equivalent) IT and Computing, Wyke Sixth Form College
• GCSE IT, South Holderness Technology College

Full CV at zachary.claretscott.com

Projects

Home Lab Infrastructure

Founded 2009

I have run a home lab since 2009, when it was an old IBM laptop serving files over Samba. It now spans three main Proxmox nodes across two locations, with two more I bring up as needed, managed end to end with Ansible, OpenTofu, and NixOS. I self-hos...

ProxmoxDockerNixOSAnsibleOpenTofuGrafanaSelf-HostingHome AssistantRaspberry Pi

Weather Station Monitoring

Founded 2024

I intercept the readings from an off-the-shelf weather station and store them in VictoriaMetrics myself, combined with river level and air quality data from UK government APIs. Two years of history now sits behind custom Grafana dashboards that I bui...

VictoriaMetricsGrafanaTime-Series DataMonitoring

SMTP2GO Terraform Module

Founded 2026

I am building a Terraform module that brings SMTP2GO resources under infrastructure as code instead of manual configuration. It is in development and not yet published.

TerraformIaCSMTP2GOModule Development

SecretGifts

Founded 2020

I built SecretGifts, a deliberately simple Secret Santa tool aimed at small businesses. It replaces the spreadsheet and the chasing that usually comes with organising one.

PHPLaravelWeb Application DevelopmentSmall Business Tools

Scrobble With

Founded 2020

I built and still run Scrobble With, a web app that syncs Last.fm scrobbles between users in real time so groups can keep a shared listening history. I am currently extending it to follow radio stations as well as other users.

Last.fm APIReal-time SynchronizationWeb Application DevelopmentOAuth IntegrationPHPLaravel

Student Finance Countdown

Founded 2015

I built a web tool that shows the next Student Finance England payment date with a live countdown, after being asked the same question by every student I knew. It is still live and maintained today.

Web DevelopmentJavaScriptDate CalculationsStudent Tools

Publications

TitlePublisherDate
DATING YOUR SUPERVISOR: Student-Supervisor Allocation via Gamification EDULEARN17 Jan 2017

Full full list on Google Scholar.

Volunteering

RoleOrganisationPeriod
Webmaster and Committee Member I joined the club committee as Webmaster in October 2026 and own the club website and merch store ou... Hull and District Motorcycle Club Oct 2026 – now
Independent Remuneration Panel Member I sit on the panel that reviews and recommends councillor allowances each year. We look at comparati... City of Lincoln Council Apr 2022 – now
Poll Worker I work the polling stations for local and national elections: checking voter ID, helping the public... City of Lincoln Council Apr 2023 – now
President, Computer Science Society I re-founded the university's defunct Computer Science Society and grew it to 60+ members with a 300... University of Lincoln Sep 2016 – Jun 2018
Webmaster I looked after the club's web presence as a teenager, with my dad formally holding the Webmaster pos... Hull and District Motorcycle Club Oct 2008 – Oct 2010

Blog

Continue reading on my personal or dev blogs.

Say hello

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