Real estate
Shaped the technical direction of a high-growth startup through significant funding stages, delivering multiple greenfield products and establishing scalable engineering practices.
Product-minded engineering for the AI era
Build fast,Scale cleanly,Reduce risk.
Helping teams move faster without losing control — with architecture, delivery discipline and engineering practices that hold up at scale.
AI accelerates delivery. The value shifts to what it cannot replace: product judgement, technical depth and delivery discipline.
Delivered for
Delivered for
Technical direction
Owned architecture, tooling and stack decisions across greenfield platforms
Platform foundations
APIs, CMS, search, analytics and integration layers built to scale'
Delivery standards
Introduced CI, E2E testing, code review and clearer requirements practices
Enterprise scale
Delivered across Eurostar, Times Higher Education and high-traffic platforms
Selected Impact
Outcomes delivered across complex product environments.
10% engagement uplift
Modernised core digital journeys for a £2bn international travel business.
Registrations beyond forecasts
Delivered frontend and search architecture that helped registrations exceed original multi-year projections.
Problems I work on
Strong engineering tackles the cause, not just the symptom.
Most delivery problems show up as bugs, delays or fragile integrations. The real causes are often deeper.
Integration risk from undocumented APIs
Replaced fragile assumptions with a validated OpenAPI contract and generated TypeScript clients, reducing downstream failures.
CMS migration under live business constraints
Led a Drupal → Sanity migration with redesigned content architecture for multilingual, high-traffic publishing.
Delivery standards lagging behind team growth
Introduced CI quality gates, code review practices, E2E checks, ticket standards and delivery documentation.
Search and content complexity outgrowing the frontend
Built headless Next.js architecture with Elasticsearch-backed discovery across 150+ global institutions.
Case Studies
Challenge. Solution. Outcome.
Founder-led platform
OpenAPI Platform Modernisation
Challenge
Fragmented API integrations with no shared contract — frontends handling networking and data-shaping manually, causing reliability issues and duplicated effort.
Solution
Converted the API surface to an OpenAPI spec, generated typed TypeScript clients, and built a domain-driven ORM layer abstracting all networking from product code.
Outcome
Contract-first architecture that eliminated integration drift, reduced coordination overhead, and improved delivery speed.
International travel platform
CMS Migration at Scale
Challenge
Aging Drupal CMS constraining publishing for a £2bn travel business serving 20M+ passengers across multilingual markets.
Solution
Full migration to Sanity — new content models, API integrations, and Next.js components supporting a modern multilingual frontend.
Outcome
~10% engagement uplift, streamlined publishing, and a modern foundation replacing years of technical debt.
Global education platform
Search & Discovery at Scale
Challenge
No fast multi-parameter search across a large content set — limiting discovery and suppressing registration conversions.
Solution
Integrated Elasticsearch across 150+ institutions on a headless Next.js platform, with reusable components adopted across new product lines.'
Outcome
User registrations surpassed multi-year projections shortly after launch.
About
Hands-on leadership, built around delivery
Extensive experience delivering scalable digital platforms across travel, publishing, public sector, financial services and property technology, spanning startup and enterprise environments.
AI-assisted development where it accelerates output, with the review discipline and architectural consistency to keep results reliable.
Technical execution that reduces risk.
Early technical decisions compound. I help founder-led companies move quickly without creating fragile systems — setting architecture, delivery standards and product foundations that make future growth easier, not harder.
Available for Principal Engineer, Staff Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineering, technical advisory and founder-led platform opportunities.