Charlie X web systems / technical seo / bitcoin
Open to select engagements
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Making the future executable.

Ten-plus years building and running the systems that sit underneath websites that can't go down: infrastructure, deployment, technical SEO, and the quiet operational layer that decides whether a digital business is trusted or not. I work best where reliability, search visibility, and discretion are the actual product - not the brand layer on top of it.

Profile

One operator. Every layer.

I started building websites in my teens, and the throughline since has never changed: get underneath a digital product, understand exactly how it works, and make it dependable. That has meant full ownership of hosting, DNS, SSL, backups, deployment pipelines, CMS architecture, and the technical SEO that decides whether any of it is actually found.

Over a decade, that work has taken me from independent web builds and small agencies to a long-term partnership with one of the UK's top-ranking SEO specialists - exposing me to ecommerce, blockchain, payment infrastructure, and gambling-adjacent platforms operating at a scale most freelancers never see.

I'm not interested in being the loudest name on a project. I'm interested in being the name a client calls first when something needs to actually work - and in building the relationships, quietly and consistently, that keep that trust intact for years rather than months.

Experience

Where the trust was built.

Technical SEO & Honed, London (UK, North America)

2023 - Present (Freelance)

Embedded with one of the UK's highest-ranking independent SEO specialists, working across top-tier ecommerce, blockchain/crypto, payments, iGaming, and AI-sector clients. Responsible for the technical SEO and infrastructure layer behind sites that can't afford downtime, indexing failures, or security gaps - across regulated and reputation-sensitive sectors.

Technical SEO Crawl & index architecture Core Web Vitals Crypto / payments-adjacent Enterprise ecommerce

WordPress Development - Boomworks, SL. (EU)

2022 - 2023

Full-stack WordPress delivery for local and mid-sized European businesses: builds, hosting, technical SEO baseline, and ongoing maintenance. Specialised, repeatable delivery rather than one-off builds - these foundations laid the groundwork for the companies pivot towards AI solutions for small businesses.

WordPress Hosting & DNS On-page SEO

Freelance Web & Branding Solutions - Coast Create, London (UK)

2020 - 2023

End-to-end digital delivery for independent businesses and creative communities: domain setup, hosting, WordPress builds, ecommerce and event-booking systems, basic SEO, and supporting brand and social assets (backed by a formal design background). Clients spanned ecommerce, hospitality, events, and the independent film and entertainment community. View my Legacy Work here.

WordPress / WooCommerce Booking systems Brand & social assets Domains / hosting / SSL

Web Developer - Early Career - City of Chelmsford & Essex

2015-2020

First professional roles out of further education: core HTML/CSS/JS builds and edits, WordPress implementation, and direct support to a senior SEO specialist and Web Developer. The years where the fundamentals - and a strong instinct for which platforms were worth specialising in - were formed.

HTML / CSS / JS WordPress Foundational SEO
Domain exposure

Sectors I actually operate in.

The pattern across every long-term client: reliability and trust are the product, not the branding on top of it.

Ecommerce

High-volume retail & DTC

Performance, technical SEO, and platform stability for established ecommerce brands operating at competitive scale.

Crypto / blockchain

Web3 & payment rails

Infrastructure and search-layer work for blockchain, token, and payment-gateway businesses - sectors where trust signals and technical correctness both matter.

Regulated digital

iGaming & payments-adjacent

Technical SEO and systems reliability for regulated, reputation-sensitive digital platforms.

Entertainment & events

Bookable experiences

Ecommerce and event-booking systems for entertainment, hospitality, and independent media communities.

Stack

What I run, not what I'm learning.

AI now writes most boilerplate HTML, CSS, and PHP competently - so that's not where I spend my time or where I differentiate. I specialise in strategy, systems integration, and the judgment calls AI can't make on its own: which platform actually fits a client's scale, how to architect for search, and how to wire automation and APIs into something that holds up in production.

Technical SEO Google Search Console / Analytics WordPress Webflow Shopify Next.js Astro Python TypeScript Supabase API integration & automation Git / GitHub DNS / SSL Cloudflare / Cloudinary / Cloudways Self-managed Linux servers CI/CD & deployment Figma / Canva Companies House / UK business compliance
Bitcoin · Long game

Where this is heading.

I run a Bitcoin full node and treat Bitcoin as the long-term asset and network underneath everything else I do. Bitcoin is the asset; blockchain is the protocol; AI is the accelerant - and I'd rather be early and useful in that overlap than late and replaceable elsewhere.

House of Bitcoin is the long-term proof of that thesis: a Bitcoin intelligence and treasury-tracking project built the same way I build everything else - properly, from the infrastructure up, with the patience to let trust compound over years rather than weeks.

Bitcoin full node Lightning Network Treasury tracking L2 / protocol-adjacent research
Contact

Open to the right work.

I work best with companies that value reliability over noise - in open, free markets, with a real long-term stake in Bitcoin and AI. If that's you, get in touch.

charlie@houseofbitcoin.org
London · Remote-first

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linkedin.com/in/mxx
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