Director-level technology leader with 30+ years’ experience across hands-on engineering, solution/platform architecture and senior leadership. I design and deliver secure, cloud-native digital services at scale across public sector and high-throughput commercial environments.
I specialise in pragmatic architecture, delivery acceleration and building high-performing teams. Comfortable moving from deep technical design reviews to executive governance, assurance, and stakeholder management.
Recent focus: Azure/AWS platform foundations, API-led and event-driven integration, modernisation of legacy estates, and improving reliability, observability and engineering standards while reducing operational friction.
Secure-by-design delivery across cloud platforms and distributed systems.
Lightweight governance that improves consistency without slowing delivery.
Building and scaling teams; enabling engineering excellence across squads and suppliers.
Translating technical trade-offs into decisions; managing dependencies and delivery risk.
Resilient cloud-native platforms with strong foundations and automation.
API-led and event-driven architectures that support autonomy and throughput.
Built and led a permanent engineering and architecture capability, scaling delivery across public sector programmes.
Architectural and technical leadership for a high-throughput pricing and quoting platform, modernised to a scalable microservice estate on AWS.
Delivered platform and product capabilities across enterprise and consumer-facing environments, focusing on secure delivery, performance and reliability.
Founded and delivered bespoke software products and services for private clients; end-to-end ownership from solution design to delivery and support.
Developed mobile and web applications, messaging systems and supporting tooling in a large-scale enterprise environment.
Football, tennis, fishing on the broads, family time and films. Chess when the weather’s doing its usual British thing.