Work

First engineer and cloud architect on a restricted UK defence programme replacing healthcare systems for 700,000+ service personnel.

• Built the programme's entire Azure estate from zero: three isolated environments on a hub-and-spoke network across multiple security boundaries
• A Terraform framework of 60+ reusable modules, adopted as the programme-wide infrastructure standard
• Enabled five COTS vendors to develop and integrate on the platform
• Deployed production, network-isolated AI coding assistance inside the secure boundary - and wrote the adoption patterns the engineering team uses

Lead architect and design authority, eight years, for an FCA-regulated platform handling a tier-1 UK bank's remediation portfolio.

• 100,000+ cases processed, representing over £1 billion in remediation value
• A configurable workflow framework built from scratch that passed FCA and SOX audits
• Technical lead for a team of 5-10 developers; introduced CI/CD to a team that had none
• Scaled from a single pilot to bank-wide adoption

Sole cloud architect for the Azure infrastructure behind a UK digital identity platform interoperable with the major consumer identity wallets.

• ~500 Azure resources designed and built across three subscriptions
• Directly enabled the first UK certification against all five national trust-framework roles
• Zero-trust architecture for biometric and PII data: private endpoints, full network isolation, encryption throughout

Azure and integration consultant for a UK infrastructure services group weighed down by manual finance reporting and disconnected legacy systems.

• Built an Azure data warehouse that automated finance reporting end to end, replacing manual re-keying
• Resolved a stubborn legacy Informix-to-Azure integration so the systems finally talked to each other
• Performance-tuned the production SQL Server behind call-centre operations

Integration and data-migration consultant for a global energy-trading firm connecting its trading systems and moving off legacy platforms.

• Built the enterprise integration layer tying the trading systems together (SQL Server, SSIS, SSAS)
• Delivered a cross-commodity data warehouse with ETL and tabular models for analysis
• Led the migration of a legacy system to SAP using custom SQL abstraction tooling

A complete AI-powered consumer platform - 1,300+ products, recommendation engine, price comparison, mobile app - designed, built and launched by one engineer in months, alongside a full-time engagement.

• AI-generated editorial across the catalogue, run through an automated multi-stage content pipeline with budget-aware spend controls
• Vector-similarity recommendation engine and real-time UK price comparison across retailers
• Full infrastructure-as-code, five environments, 170 automated tests, CI/CD throughout
• Details on request

Co-founder and CTO: designed and built a national click-and-collect platform spanning 1,500+ locations, an early Azure adopter in 2014.

• Built the complete platform on Azure - web apps, SQL Azure, Redis and messaging
• Integrated bi-directionally with payment-terminal hardware for real-time parcel tracking
• Secured the API with OAuth, API keys and certificate authentication via an API gateway