Technology leader with a ~20 year career spanning development, architecture, engineering management and executive leadership.

I specialise in delivering business aligned outcomes through technology utilising cloud native, microservice based or modular event-driven architectures.

Experienced in CRUD, event-driven / event-sourced and CQRS architectures but foremost putting together product engineering teams delivering end-to-end initiatives from inception to day-2 operations and optimisation.

Delivered in 7 months a rewrite of a 15-year-old bespoke B2B E-commerce platform in Java / Microsercvices / Kubernetes stack in a program spanning a headcount of ~100 engineers across multiple teams in US and UK

Solution Architect for numerous high profile global web sites such as Aston Martin, Manchester City and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)

Transitioned a content/personalisation/notification engine from monolith to micro-services; that engine powers content apps for the largest mobile network operators (MNOs)in the US for a combined audience of more that ~30M users

Designed and brought to market -following a cell-based architecture- a platfrom to showcase BBC Worldwide content to B2B delegates in a fully redundant, high availability closed system

Delivered "exotic" integrations very early in his carrer, developer a bespoke APNS internal SaaS service (Nike) and integrated a nuclear particle accelerator control system with Excel (CERN)