Nigel Brooks
I am Nigel Brooks, a cloud engineer, IT consultant, and managed service provider based in Houston, Texas. I run TRUSTNIGEL, and clients who have worked with me tend to just call it Trust Nigel. I build production-grade systems, and then I keep them running.
What I actually do
Most technology problems in a growing business are not really technology problems. They are the gap between a system that demos well and a system that holds up on a Tuesday afternoon when everything is running at once. I work in that gap.
That work started on the build side: web applications, marketplaces, payment and booking flows, automation, and the cloud infrastructure underneath them. It has since grown into the other half of the job. Businesses that had something built kept asking who was going to run it, patch it, back it up, and answer the phone when something broke. So I now provide fully managed services as well, which means I can take an idea from first conversation through to a system that someone is accountable for long after launch.
Based in Houston, Texas. Serving organizations nationwide.
Build, manage, and the cloud in between
Build
Web applications, marketplaces, payment funnels, AI integrations, and automation systems. Scoped, built, and deployed to production before handoff.
- Full-stack web apps
- Automation and bots
- AI integration
- Payment and booking flows
- Data and reporting tools
Manage
Fully managed IT for businesses that would rather run their company than run their systems. Monitored, patched, backed up, and supported.
- Managed IT and helpdesk
- Endpoint and identity management
- Backup and disaster recovery
- Patching and monitoring
- Vendor and license management
Cloud
Infrastructure designed for where the business is going, not just where it is today. Multi-cloud, reproducible, and documented.
- AWS, Azure, and GCP
- Infrastructure as code
- Migrations and cutovers
- Cost and performance tuning
- Security and access control
How engagements work
Clear scope, fixed budget, no long-term contracts on build work. Deployed to production before handoff, not left on a staging server for someone else to finish. Managed service arrangements run on their own terms and are sized to what the business actually needs rather than a package tier.
Every project in the Build Log is either live or confidential. Nothing on this site is hypothetical.
Elsewhere
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If something needs building, or something already built needs someone accountable for it, that is the conversation to have.
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