pllx.group · Solutions Architecture & Consulting

Architecture that fits.
Infrastructure that lasts.

Vendor-neutral solutions architecture and consulting for mid-market to enterprise organisations — on-premise, cloud, and hybrid. From discovery through delivery, with the technical depth to design it and the operational experience to build it.

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Mid-Market
to Enterprise
On-Prem
Cloud & Hybrid
Vendor
Neutral
Architecture
through Delivery
01
Business First
Every engagement starts with your business requirements, constraints, and goals — not a technology shortlist. The architecture follows the business, not the other way around.
02
Technology that Fits
Platforms and tools are chosen because they fit your workflows, your team, and your operational reality — not because they're on a preferred vendor list or familiar from the last engagement.
03
Built to Last
Systems designed for longevity — maintainable by your team, documented for the long haul, and able to grow with the business without requiring a rearchitecture every few years.
04
Collaborative by Design
Working with your team — not around them. Every stage involves the people closest to the environment so that decisions are informed, adoption is smooth, and knowledge stays inside your organisation.
— Consulting Services

Senior-level expertise
across the full stack.

Independent consulting built on deep experience in MSP operations, sales engineering, and enterprise architecture. Technology is selected to fit your processes and your people — not retrofitted around a preferred platform.

Solutions Architecture
End-to-end technical design from business requirements through detailed implementation blueprints. Includes documentation, reference architectures, and technology selection rationale that your team can own long-term.
Cloud & Hybrid Infrastructure
Workload placement strategy, migration planning, and cost optimisation across Azure, AWS, and on-premise environments. Designed for operational reality, not theoretical best practice.
Systems Integration
Connecting disparate platforms into coherent, maintainable workflows — APIs, middleware, identity federation, and data pipelines. Reduces operational friction and eliminates the manual bridges that accumulate over time.
Pre-Sales & Sales Engineering
Technical scoping, RFP responses, proof-of-concept builds, and stakeholder presentations. Translates complex solutions into clear business outcomes for procurement, leadership, and technical audiences simultaneously.
Infrastructure Assessment
Structured review of your current environment — identifying risks, gaps, and technical debt. Delivered as a prioritised modernisation roadmap with clear rationale and sequencing that aligns to business timeline and budget.
Implementation & Delivery
Hands-on execution when the project needs someone who can both design and build. Available across the full lifecycle — standing up infrastructure, configuring systems, validating against the design, and handing off cleanly to operations.
Resilience & Recovery
Backup architecture, disaster recovery planning, and restoration validation for critical systems and data. Covers on-premise, cloud, and hybrid environments — including backup policy design, offsite/cold storage strategy, RTO/RPO target setting, and documented, tested recovery procedures. A resilient system is one that has been recovered from, not just backed up to.
Also Available — Custom Development
Web Applications
Full-stack web apps and internal tools — React frontends, Node or Python backends, designed for ops teams and business users.
Automation & Tooling
Scripts, workflows, and purpose-built utilities that eliminate manual processes across infrastructure and business operations.
API & Platform Integrations
Custom connectors and integration layers that tie together the platforms your business already runs on.
Open Source Contributions
Infrastructure tooling built and maintained in public under the Parallax Group umbrella. See the portfolio section below.
— Engagement Methodology

How an engagement works.

A structured process that keeps scope clear, stakeholders aligned, and delivery predictable — without unnecessary overhead.

01
Discover
Collaborative discovery with the people closest to the environment — stakeholder interviews, technical assessment, and documentation review. Goals, constraints, and success criteria are defined together, not assumed.
02
Architect
Design the solution — reference architecture, technology selection, integration patterns, and implementation sequencing with clear rationale at each decision point.
03
Propose
The recommendation is built with your team, not handed down to them. Options, tradeoffs, costs, and risks are clearly documented — structured to support collaborative decision-making across procurement, leadership, and technical stakeholders.
04
Deliver
Execute against the design — hands-on implementation, vendor coordination, testing and validation against the agreed architecture and acceptance criteria.
05
Handoff
Clean transfer to your operations team — documentation, runbooks, knowledge transfer sessions, and a defined post-implementation support window.
— Engagement Types
All engagements are scoped individually. No standardised packages — the model fits the work. Discuss your project →
— Platform Coverage

Vendor-neutral.
Broadly experienced.

Familiarity across the platforms that appear in real enterprise and mid-market environments — not just the ones that look good on a slide.

Cloud
Microsoft Azure
Amazon Web Services
Azure Stack HCI
Microsoft 365 & Entra
Virtualisation & Compute
VMware vSphere / ESXi
Proxmox VE
Hyper-V
Docker & Container Orchestration
Networking
Cisco (IOS / Meraki)
Fortinet / Palo Alto
OPNsense / pfSense
SD-WAN & SASE
Systems & Integration
Linux (RHEL, Debian, Ubuntu)
Windows Server & AD DS
REST / GraphQL APIs
Identity & SSO (SAML, OIDC)
— Open Source Portfolio

Built in public.
Proof of depth.

Five active infrastructure projects developed and maintained under the Parallax Group umbrella. Working software that demonstrates the range and technical rigour applied to every client engagement.

Aperture
v6.4.0
Network Observability & Operations

Real-time monitoring, device interactions, performance metrics, and diagnostic tools for network engineers and sysadmins — unified in a single interface.

github.com/pllx/parallax ↗
Prism
Active
AI Inference Server — Install & Config

Provisions a complete self-hosted AI stack — Ollama, Open WebUI, n8n, LightRAG — in a single guided workflow, from bare metal to running inference.

github.com/pllx/prism ↗
Refract
Active
Duplicate File Finder & Manager

Scans storage, identifies redundant files across directories, and provides a safe interface for reviewing and resolving duplicates without mass-deletion risk.

github.com/pllx/refract ↗
Lens
Active
Proxmox Datacenter Manager

Unified management for Proxmox VE, PBS, UPS, and switching — four separate admin surfaces collapsed into one clear view.

github.com/pllx/lens ↗
Flux
Active
NUT UPS Management — Single Pane of Glass

Centralized dashboard for Network UPS Tools instances. Status, load, runtime estimates, event history, and configuration — without touching config files directly.

github.com/pllx/flux ↗
Licensed Editions
Multi-tenant and enterprise editions in progress. Destination: pllx.app
pllx.app — coming soon →
— Get in Touch

Let's talk about
your environment.

Whether you're scoping a project, evaluating options, or just want a second opinion on a technical decision — reach out. No obligation, no pitch.

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