Andrew Samuel
Small Projects • Solid Solutions
With a background in IT Management, software development, and electronics, I bring a broad and practical approach to technology—spanning both professional leadership and hands‑on creation. I am currently Head of IT for Mercedes‑Benz South West, where I’m responsible for delivering reliable, secure, and well‑managed IT systems across the business.
Alongside my professional role, I have a long‑standing interest in building and experimenting with technology. I regularly design and develop solutions that combine hardware and software, using platforms such as Raspberry Pi and Arduino, as well as designing and manufacturing my own PCBs. These projects often bring together custom electronics with applications and web‑based tools, developed under Sweet Pea Software.
Outside of my day‑to‑day work, I enjoy giving my time and skills to worthy local projects, including bands, community groups, and associations. As an active member of several local groups myself, I understand the value of having a simple, dependable online presence—and I’m happy to support these projects by offering affordable website design and hosting where it can make a real difference.
This work isn’t about specialisation or scale; it’s about contributing something useful, sharing experience, and helping good ideas and local talent present themselves clearly online.
If you have a project that could benefit from a bit of technical help, I’d be glad to explore how we might work together.
Web Design Projects
Helping Local Projects Be Seen Online
Tech Projects
Software, Electronics, and Practical Solutions
A WordPress plugin that provides a live preview of how your pages and posts will look when shared on social media platforms, based on Open Graph (OG) tags. Includes seamless integration with Elementor page builder.
A real-time status wallboard for monitoring your UptimeRobot services. Display service health, uptime status, and alerts on a clean, customizable dashboard perfect for NOC displays, office monitors, or personal dashboards.
A simple PHP page that shows who is currently signed in at a given site using the Sign In App Client API. It fetches today’s sign‑ins for a site, groups them, and renders each signed‑in person as a tile with their photo and name.
A lightweight, zero-configuration PHP directory lister with a modern interface. Just drop index.php into any directory on a PHP-enabled server—it works immediately with no setup required.
Automatically remove IIS log files older than a configured retention period, show progress during execution, and write operational events to Windows Event Viewer → Application under a configurable Event ID. Outputs a summary table of deletions per IIS site.