I turn ambitious product ideas into reliable systems and teams that actually enjoy Mondays. I've spent 28 years building software and 18+ years leading technology organisations, scaling platforms, mentoring engineers, and helping unpick the occasional 2 a.m. incident with aplomb. Now I'm on the hunt for a team building something bold - bonus points for good coffee and worse puns.
I'm the rare engineering leader who genuinely enjoys both the people side and the systems side, possibly because I'm bad at picking a lane. I build tight, high-trust teams with a culture worth sticking around for, and I'd rather make everyone around me stronger than be the smartest person in the room.
I turn technology strategy into concrete outcomes, both short- and long-term, especially for startups looking to scale or teams positioning for investment or acquisition.
I'm a doer who loves contributing at all levels to business outcomes: leadership, strategy, and - when it makes sense - still happy wrangling AIs while contributing code myself.
I can take a technically complex software company through scale, while still understanding the technology deeply enough to get involved when it matters.
Turn ambitious products into scalable, reliable platforms.
Build high-trust engineering organisations that can grow without losing velocity.
Apply AI, cloud and modern engineering practices where they create actual business leverage.
Navigate technical due diligence, M&A integration, security and compliance.
Stepped back from full-time leadership for a deliberate, hands-on break: exploring how LLM-assisted development reshapes team workflow and code review, going deep on the open-source container ecosystem and immutable Linux distributions, and self-hosting a full stack of personal services - currently 40 services across 3 servers, run with a zero-trust security posture and an eye on EU privacy regulation and data sovereignty.
Led multiple teams across the globe delivering a CCaaS messaging platform for customer service, driving results with conversational AI, machine learning, and cloud technologies while ensuring enterprise-grade security and compliance. Completed complex post-acquisition integration and PCI 3.2 compliance certification. Reduced infrastructure spend by 15% while maintaining 99.99% availability.
Led all technical discussions with interested parties, ultimately leading to Verint's acquisition of Conversocial in 2021. Responsible for engineering and technology strategy, delivering deep-learning-powered AI/ML products across social media, messaging, and chat channels. Grew revenue from $7M to $15M ARR while scaling teams from 15 to 30. Completed ISO27001 and FSCA certifications.
Provided vision, strategy, and leadership for the DevOps Professional Services function across EMEA — developing services, processes and tools, taking them to market, and driving the delivery engine. Worked directly with customers up to the C-level on agility, consistency, flexibility, and security across multiple cloud and dedicated platforms. Built division revenue from zero to $2M.
Full technical oversight of client web applications end-to-end: specification, infrastructure planning, implementation, delivery, deployment, maintenance, and optimisation. Built an in-house product suite on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram APIs for large-scale data ingress and SQL-on-Hadoop reporting.
Head of Development for the flagship SaaS social media suite. Managed and collaborated with on-site and remote teams across three continents and four time zones (14 direct reports), unifying a Java/Scala and PHP CI/CD pipeline across AWS, and building a real-time ingress path into Elasticsearch for very high-traffic social properties. Integrated companies post-acquisition.
Led discussions with interested parties, ultimately leading to Syncapse's acquisition of Nudge Social Media in 2010. In charge of everything technical relating to business operations and client social media campaign delivery, managing a technical team of 12 front-end and back-end developers delivering projects for clients including Sony PlayStation and Pepsi. Built revenue from zero to $1.6M.
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