Daniel Lockyer

Daniel Lockyer

Performance and scaling consultant who analyzes the full stack - frontend, backend and infrastructure - to generate more revenue and cut costs for businesses.

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Performance and Scale Tune-Up

Booked until November

What I Offer

  • Performance profiling and investigations
  • Code changes and pull requests
  • Scaling and infrastructure optimization
  • Database optimization
  • Cost analysis and cloud bill optimization
  • Process improvements and best practices

How I Work

I work iteratively, focusing on the areas with the most impact first. Rather than trying to fix everything at once, I identify and prioritize the bottlenecks that will give the biggest performance gains.

We can typically make huge improvements within the first month by targeting the right areas. CPU utilization, memory usage, and response time drops of over 80% are not uncommon.

I usually sit in your team Slack/ team chat, and am available to answer questions and help with any issues that come up.

$10,000/month

Minimum engagement: 3 months

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1hr Consulting Call

Get advice on your performance challenges. I'll review your specific situation and provide recommendations.

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Custom Engagements

Need something different? I also offer training sessions, and other custom arrangements tailored to your specific needs.

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Previous Clients

Gumroad
Ghost
Nomad List
Remote OK
PhotoAI
Indie Traveller
Game Quitters
First Internet
La Langue Française
Marek Bron

Marek Bron

Editor of Indietraveller

If you're wondering whether you should hire a performance expert, Daniel is your answer. He analyzed my setup and dramatically reduced server load (in the 80-90% range). Not only was that faster, but I could move to a cheaper plan for my VPS.

IndieTraveller performance graph showing dramatic server load reduction
Pablo Olóndriz

Pablo Olóndriz

Founder of Legis Music

Daniel was able to perform an amazing audit of the backend side of Legis Music in a short amount of time and improve the overall loading time of several landing pages, which has been very helpful.

I would recommend working with him without hesitation. Thank you very much!

Bruce van Zyl

Bruce van Zyl

Founder of Tribe Social

Daniel did a fantastic job. Had issues for servers for 4+ weeks going back and forth with another senior contractor. Daniel had it fully recovered in less than 24 hrs.

Great communication — made it the whole recovery painless experience!

Giles Thomas

Giles Thomas

CEO at Whole Design Studios

Daniel is a site speed expert, not an easy skillset to find. He helps our clients at Whole get more profits from their stores with faster load times, page size and file requests.

If you need an expert to improve your site speed, you've found him.

Charlie Livingston

Charlie Livingston

Founder of The Book Cover Designer

Daniel has helped me get my server back up and running twice now, and both times he was very quick to fix the problem after struggling to find it. He has also helped me reduce my CPU load and generally optimise my website/server for speed. I'm very happy with his work and would recommend him if you're looking for a speed expert.

The Book Cover Designer performance graph showing CPU load reduction
Andrey Azimov

Andrey Azimov

Founder of Sheet2Site

Daniel helped me create a server config to generate sub-pages dynamically. He thinks of all the potential problems and was quick in his conclusions. Totally recommend him!

Scott Baxter

Scott Baxter

First Internet

We've worked with Daniel since 2018, and he's been an outstanding DevOps expert for our team. He dramatically optimised our infrastructure, reducing server load and significantly improving performance and uptime. Daniel seamlessly manages complex technical challenges remotely, providing effective solutions.

His proactive approach means he's often resolved potential issues before they become real problems, ensuring minimal downtime and disruption. Daniel is highly responsive and approachable, and his expertise makes complex decisions straightforward.

If you're looking for a skilled, dedicated, and reliable DevOps specialist, Daniel, is your man!!!

Jurn

Jurn

Editor of VloggingPro

Daniel helped move VloggingPro from a shared host to a dedicated server with zero downtime and in the process updated it to a new WordPress version, set up HTTPS and other optimizations. His work resulted in a 60% decrease in page load time, 80% decrease in download time and my server bill was cut in half.

VloggingPro performance graph showing response time improvements
Mike Rubini

Mike Rubini

@mikerubini

Added caching, from 30s+ to 4.3s fully loaded, nice work! 🏆

Nicolas Le Roux

Nicolas Le Roux

Founder of La Langue Francaise

Daniel optimized the performances of my website gathering over 2,000,000 monthly visitors in a quick and efficient manner. He helped to reduce the CPU load and loading time of the sites regardless of the poor efficiency of third-party ads.

I really appreciated his answers to my questions regarding server management and optimization throughout the process.

Definitely recommend!

Will Hatton

Will Hatton

Founder of The Broke Backpacker

Daniel is a speed wizard and was able to drastically speed up my very heavy site.

Paleo Gluten Free Eats

Upgraded this WordPress site from PHP 5.6 to PHP 7.2. CPU usage dropped by 60% and time-to-first-byte dropped from 651ms to 251ms (-61%).

Paleo Gluten Free Eats performance graph showing CPU usage and TTFB improvements

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