About

I’m Wade — a Linux systems administrator with more than a decade spent keeping hosting infrastructure, mail systems, and networks running in places where downtime has a real, commercial cost.

Today I’m based in Ennis, County Clare, and I’m the founder of Noiz — a hosting, IT, and cybersecurity company I built from a single server into a platform serving over 200 client accounts. It now runs steadily under a manager, which frees me to take on new challenges.

The short version misses the interesting part, though.

How I got here

My love for technology goes back as far as I can remember — taking apart toys and appliances to see how they worked, building working boats and small hovercrafts from salvaged components, wiring up robotic kits that tracked light and motion. It found its focus when my mother scraped together savings for our first family PC — a Windows 98 desktop — when I was about ten. I quickly commandeered it.

One early memory captures an instinct that has never left me. Overclocking that machine to squeeze more out of the RAM, I tripped a thermal limit — and the evidence arrived as smoke pouring from the tower. With my mother due home from work, I bought a block of dry ice from the local ice cream man, cooled the internals just enough to get back into the BIOS, and reset the defaults. She remained blissfully unaware. It’s one of my earliest core memories of troubleshooting under pressure.

I left school for the University of the Witwatersrand to study aeronautical engineering. The interest was real, but my family couldn’t afford the fees, and I was pushed early from a path of academia into one of survival and entrepreneurship.

What followed was self-directed. I taught myself architectural drafting and AutoCAD, and contributed to over 60 projects at an architectural firm. I installed and configured point-of-sale terminals for banks — a high-stakes, hyper-regulated environment that taught me discretion and care. Then came Jasper Consultants, a network and server administrator role where I cut my teeth on Linux migrations, DNS, mail servers, and the patient work of supporting people through technical problems.

And then Noiz. What began out of necessity as a hosting platform became, through years of research, testing, and problem-solving, a flourishing company. Building Noiz is where the Linux craft I rely on today was forged — and I ran it successfully alongside roles at Virgin Media Ireland and as Director of IT for a 150-staff engineering operation.

How I work

I’d describe myself as a lifelong learner with a relentless desire to improve — to know more, build more, and offer more to the people and systems around me. Clear communication, competence, and genuine empathy aren’t technical attributes, but they’re ever-present in how I work, and I believe they’re why I’ve earned a loyal set of colleagues and clients over the years.

If it comes down to a single principle: I leave systems better than I found them.

And I hold to three words — Veritas, Caritas, Libertas. Truth, love, and liberty.

Beyond the desk

Away from the terminal I’m a philosophy and politics enthusiast, a chess and strategy player, and a reader drawn to classical music, literature, and architecture. I’m physically active too, with a competitive background: powerlifting, obstacle course racing, boxing, K1 Muay Thai, karate, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, distance running, and recreational scuba diving.