The Work
What this looks like when it works.
Every engagement starts the same way. Something is broken beneath the surface. The visible symptoms are not the cause. I find what is actually wrong and rebuild from there.
As you read through these, notice the pattern. The presenting problem was never the real problem. The fix was never where anyone expected to find it. When you see that pattern clearly, you will recognise it in your own organisation.
Impact Advantage: AI / Social Impact
The world's first fully automated SROI and predictive impact intelligence platform.
Leading the technical strategy and end-to-end architecture for Impact Advantage. Created the full multi-agent architecture powering SROI scoping, outcome modelling, evidence retrieval, valuation logic, causal chains, and predictive scenario modelling. Built the system that reduces the time to create an SROI pathway from six weeks to a few hours.
Developed an AI interface allowing LLMs to integrate with the platform for safe, controlled access to organisational data for AI reasoning. Architected the multi-tenant Azure environment including APIM, SQL, RBAC, Auth0, network isolation, failover design, IaC pipelines, and DevOps standards.
Smartr365: Fintech
Second employee to £50m valuation. Built the entire tech function from nothing.
Smartr365 is a B2B2C SaaS platform automating financial services. The goal: reduce processing time for retail financial products from 10 hours to 30 minutes through automation and third-party integrations. When I arrived there was a monolithic codebase built by an outsourced team. No documentation. No tests. No deployment process.
I engineered the cloud migration from a single business application to a multi-tenant SaaS architecture using elastic jobs for rapid user base expansion. Directed establishment of DevOps (IaC) and end-to-end SDLC. Scaled a team of 25+ across in-house developers and outsourced vendors in India and Cape Town. Led the ISO 27001 certification process. Ensured GDPR compliance and passed bank security auditing for system integration.
Smartr365 passed due diligence with Legal & General, Experian, and Lloyds. The business was valued at £50m at the Experian funding round.
Coadjute: Proptech
API-first blockchain platform. Zero issues raised in VC due diligence.
Coadjute is an API-first property technology platform. I built a common data model in a blockchain distributed ledger to enable connections between independent CRMs for the property industry. The platform connects established but independent systems to automate property transactions.
Managed the technical due diligence for Praetura Ventures. The specialist firm they appointed raised zero issues. Raised £6m bringing the total to over £10m. Implemented a remote-first working strategy including full team recruitment and onboarding. Developed the security development lifecycle to position the business for ISO 27001 certification. Drew up plans for a blockchain managed service including disaster recovery, failover, compliance, and security.
Vodafone Africa: Telecoms
Rebuilt team structure and delivery process across a 70-person engineering organisation.
A large engineering organisation where all critical knowledge sat with a single person and releases took four hours. The system was fragile, the process was manual, and the team structure made it worse.
Restructured the team and delivery process. Eliminated single-person dependencies. Reduced the release cycle from four hours to 30 minutes. Achieved CMMI Level 3 certification. The transformation was structural, not cosmetic. The system held because the foundations were rebuilt, not patched.
Dealogic: Investment Banking
The platform that processed 80% of the world's IPOs.
Progressed through increasingly senior development roles building the platform that became the industry standard for investment banking deal management and capital markets analytics. The system scaled to process 80% of the world's IPOs. High transaction volume systems operating on architectures that had to be right because the stakes did not allow for otherwise.