Agile Engineering. Reliable Results

Agile Engineering. Reliable Results

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Seasoned technology leader, bringing 20 years of extensive experience. Positions include Head of engineering, development, platform-engineering, Chief Architect. Over a wide array of domains, including; sports & iGaming, public sector, finance, and digital commerce.

Strong focus on enhancing time-to-value, our customers, the product, and cultivating high-performing teams. With emphasis on team wellbeing, professional development.

Experience

  • SuperGroup/ Betway Global - Head of Development & Platform Engineering

    Sports & iGaming | March 2025

    • Product Delivery & Velocity -

      - Scaled Delivery Efficiency: Re-engineered the end-to-end product lifecycle, achieving a 3x increase in feature delivery year-on-year.
      - Strategic Alignment: Implemented a company-wide Lean Value Tree (LVT), connecting discovery and MVP development directly to high-level business goals through traceable metrics.
      - Organisational Design: Reduced cross-team dependencies by optimising team topology and streamlining the "Discovery to Rollout" pipeline.
      - Deployment Frequency: Accelerated release cycles by implementing automated testing and CI/CD enhancements, significantly increasing deployment confidence.

    • Reliability & Infrastructure -

      - Unified Observability: Orchestrated the rollout of a centralised observability platform across thousands of microservices.
      - Automated Incident Response: Reduced Root Cause Analysis (RCA) time by deploying an automated, multi-cloud service map for real-time incident tracking.
      - Global Infrastructure: Integrated all major cloud providers and PaaS suppliers into a unified developer platform.
      - Real-time FinOps: Established granular cloud-spend visibility with real-time budget tracking from individual teams to vertical business units.

    • Developer Experience (DevEx) & Platform Engineering -

      - Internal Developer Platform (IDP): Launched a "single pane of glass" platform to unify workflows for developers, platform engineers, and operations.
      - Golden Path Automation: Standardised the developer journey with automated repository creation, authentication, and infrastructure provisioning.
      - Knowledge Management: Centralised technical documentation, API dictionaries, and the company Tech Radar to promote engineering standards.
      - Governance as Code: Built a vendor onboarding framework via IaC, reducing onboarding lead time to one week.

    • Strategic Operations & M&A -

      - Acquisition Due Diligence: Conducted deep-dive technical audits for three organisations, evaluating code quality, infrastructure risk, and integration roadmaps.
      - Streamlined Procurement: Managed end-to-end vendor lifecycles (POV/POC to contract negotiation). Successfully onboarded four major vendors using reusable IaC frameworks.
      - Global Leadership: Led and mentored cross-functional teams across three countries and four regional offices.
      - Community Building: Hosted the company’s first external tech meetup and established a centralised technical library to foster a culture of continuous learning.

  • Thoughtworks - Multiple roles

    Leading global technology consultancy | Apr 2018 - March 2025

    • UK leading online marketplace - Technical Principal

      Nov 2023- Ongoing

      Our initial discovery highlighted an opportunity to drastically improve customer experience.

      Key contributor to
      - Development a CX strategy for their next multi-year transformation
      - Identification of critical operational and marketing use cases
      - Build vs buy analysis- including 20+ CRM suppliers and tech assessment for existing products
      - Defined CX target architecture, backed by tech strategy and policies
      - Leading and shaping multi-team implementation
      UK

    • Public Sector Demand - Technical Pre-Sales Partner

      Security & Cross Government
      UK

    • Public sector - Technical Principal & Architect

      Responsible for crafting and implementing multi-team, multi-year technical vision.

      Leading a team of over 100, split into cross functional, multi disciplined teams. Organised around products.

      Strong focus on security, data privacy, and stability. Guided by NCSC and aligned to The Cyber Assessment Framework (CAF), assured with automated governance. Provisioning CNI with modern software delivery practices.

      Operating an accessible service assessed by The Central Digital and Data Office (CDDO) against a GDS Service Assessment, following The Technology Code Of Practice

      UK

    • Thoughtworks university - Trainer

      Thoughtworks University (TWU) is a global training program that introduces our newly hired graduates and career changers to the principles, practices and skills required to build working and valuable software.

      Established in 2005, TWU has always continuously evolved, and since 2022 has grown into a remote learning program that supports the entire first-year graduate experience.
      Remote (Global)

    • BestSecret- Fashion Ecommerce - Lead engineer

      Improved software delivery performance and DevEx.
      Munich (Germany) & Remote

    • Travel (OTA) - Lead engineer and SME

      Search engine design and implementation
      Remote (UK)

    • Trainer - Course creator

      9 week immersive course including; lean inception, user research and delivery. Structured around best practice concluding in a real production application.
      Remote (UK)

    • Tieto EVRY- Banking - Engagement & Tech lead

      Legacy displacement of Core Banking system.

      Focus on team topologies, domain driven design, developer experience and software delivery performance, assessed against the 4 key metrics
      Bergen (Norway), Oslo (Norway), Kiev (Ukraine) & Bengaluru (India)

    • Legal publishing - Tech lead

      Search engine design and implementation
      London (UK) & Raleigh (USA)

    • One Million Mentors - Hacknight organiser and contributor


      London (UK)

    • Medical/ Healthcare - C# & .Net SME & Engineer

      Event driven architecture design and implementation
      Manchester (UK) & London (UK)

    Tech

    Java C# Python Clojure Kotlin NodeJs VueJS React Mongo Redis PostgreSQL MySQL Elasticsearch Solr Kafka Terraform Ansible Kubernetes Azure AWS GCP ...And many more

  • Ormsby Street - Principal engineer

    Finance & business insight | Mar 2016 - Apr 2018 | London (UK)

    Building high throughput systems and heavy data processing. Ensured smooth transfer during acquisition.

    Tech

    C# .Net Java Azure DataFactory Azure Search Knockout RabbitMQ Microservice Architecture

  • Resident Advisor - Developer & Architect

    Music, publishing & events | Jan 2015 - Feb 2016 | London (UK) & Berlin (Germany)

    Resident Advisor is your global guide to clubs, DJs, tickets, news and rave culture. Custom Authorization, Custom Authentication, High traffic enviroments.

    Tech

    C# .Net

  • SiliconPanda - Founder

    Web Agency | July 2014 - Apr 2018 | London (UK)

    Web design agency with a multi tenant CMS at its core.

    Tech

    C# dotnet core VueJS Azure Azure Media Service Azure Search Service SQL Azure Azure Table Storage Azure Message Service Azure Blob Storage

  • Intelligent Reach - Developer

    E-commerce | Feb 2014 - Jan 2015 | London (UK)

    A complete Product & Data Feed Management platform, to boost your product visibility, expand commerce connectivity and enhance performance

    Tech

    Big data SQL SSAS C# Angular Lucene .Net

  • Dazed Digital - Developer

    Fashion & photography publishing | June 2013 - Feb 2014 | London (UK)

    Custom CMS. Rich media. Azure migration

    Tech

    Azure Kaltura C# .Net

  • AEI Media - Developer

    Music, streaming, events & e-commerce | Jan 2012 - June 2013 | London (UK)

    Principal developer for AEI Media- holding company for a variety of bass music companies. Ranging from streaming, events, news, label, publishings, distribution, etc. Lead developer at drum&bassArena, multichannel bass music brand.

  • Drum&BassArena - Lead developer

    Music & e-commerce | Jan 2012 - June 2013 | London (UK)

    Services including; news, events, blogs, live video streaming, high quality music downloadstore, portals and reporting services for distributors and labels.

    Tech

    C# .Net MS SQL Lucene JavaScript

  • Financial software ltd - Technical analyst & developer

    Finance | Oct 2010 - Dec 2011 | London (UK)

    Award-winning capital gains calculation and investment tax management backed by unrivalled expertise.

    Tech

    C# .Net Silverlight MS SQL JavaScript

  • Mayflower Collection - IT support & developer

    Travel & hospitality | Jul 2006 - Oct 2010 | London (UK)

    In house reservation system development (with WISH technologies integrations)