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Advisory, Strategy, Leadership, Architecture, Engineering
Architect, engineer, build and ship.
Tired of strategy decks? Want to design & build AI-native secure, and resilient innovations and platforms for regulated industries? Ready to grow your team and move from slideware to shipped systems?
Open Source · MIT Licensed
An engineering playbook that went viral for a reason
To give engineering teams a running start. Whether you are joining a new team or building from scratch, a shared playbook eliminates repeated debates, accelerates onboarding, and embeds security and quality as defaults — not afterthoughts.
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Zero Trust Security Engineering
A practical roadmap for building resilient, high-integrity systems in regulated environments.
Services
Startups
Fractional CTO & Founding Engineer
Strategic technology leadership from product strategy to first shipped version.
- Team building and scaling
- Product strategy and roadmap
- Rapid MVP development and launch
- Investor-ready architecture & risk narrative
- Fundraising support and due diligence
- Deep security & resilience expertise (published author)
Outcomes: 12-week roadmap, build sprint, investor tech DD pack
Enterprises
AI, Cloud, Architecture & Implementation
Cloud native implementations, AI pilots, and LLM integration for productivity and experiences.
- Domain driven design, architecture and design governance
- LLM integration, RAG, and agentic AI
- Safety, monitoring, and feedback loops
- Cloud platforms live in months, not years
- Cost optimisations through standardisation and automation
Outcomes: Data & cloud foundation, assessment & audit, optimisation roadmaps, measured business impact
SMBs
AI Adoption & Cloud for Growing Businesses
Practical AI and cloud setup for small businesses — from deploying Claude and AI tools for automation and marketing, to securing your cloud foundation.
- Set up Claude, AI agents, and LLM tools for business automation and marketing
- AI education and workshops — get your team AI-ready fast
- Cloud setup and migration (AWS, Azure, GCP) — right-sized for your business
- Automate repetitive tasks: content, ops, customer comms with AI workflows
- Zero-trust identity, segmentation, and secure-by-default cloud foundations
- Compliance automation (SOC 2, HIPAA, ISO 27001) — evidence pipelines and policy-as-code
Outcomes: AI-ready team, cloud foundation live, automated workflows, audit-ready controls
Experience
8+ years
Architecture & Strategy
Domain: Banking, Health, Insurance
Digital and enterprise architecture for designing cloud and digital platforms (across AWS, Azure and GCP). Mentoring teams to adopt modern architecture patterns, building cross-domain transformation roadmaps, and establishing multi-cloud governance.
- Partnered with executive and cross-functional teams to define technology strategy, accelerate delivery timelines, and optimize spend throughout frameworks over data-driven decision-making, product roadmap, cost accountability enabling measurable optimizations from each invested dollar
- Led cloud native platforms, unifying foundational capabilities and production-ready to support scalable SaaS solutions across business units with platform engineering principles, including onboarding, scaling and third-party providers to deliver customer value, continuous improvements, and health cost initiatives
- Achieved 50%+ cost optimization by standardizing architecture, vending and prioritizing processes, reducing infrastructure sprawl, and adapting shared services
4+ years
Chief Technology Officer
FinTech, Startup, Banking, Wealth and Asset Management
As the CTO and technology lead, helped set teams to host the global solutions (wealth advisory platform, SaaS products and KYC/AML platform), successfuly passed external audits; setup developer platforms, and ran the production and support operations team for clients.
- Multi-channel, API-driven cloud-native platform with automation across products.
- 20+ third-party providers including custodians, banking, and other providers.
- Setup AI platform and workflows for AML, onboarding, data insight, agentic AI, RAG, and chatbots
6+ years
Technology Director
Digital Transformation, Consulting and Strategy within Financial services
Executive leadership across digital transformation initiatives for major banking/financial clients (teams of 300+ people and £10 - 250+ revenue), directed teams of 10+ engineers.
- Delivered an major digital and cloud transformation: scaled teams generating £25M+ anual revenue
- Rapidly delivered and operated multiple (4+) cloud-based platforms using well-architected principles across AWS, Azure, GCP for banking and financial institutions in 3-6 months
- Achieved idea to launch in days with full automation and testing, security & compliance controls, and change management
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