Hands-on technical leadership · Architecture · Project rescue
I help organisations build, modernise and stabilise software platforms where the challenge is not just code, but risk, ambiguity, delivery pressure, operational reality and commercial constraint.
Best fit
The strongest fit is work that needs senior judgement and hands-on delivery: technical leadership, architecture ownership, platform modernisation, systems integration, rescue work and credible AI-enabled product delivery.
Hands-on engineering leadership for organisations that need broad technical judgement, delivery discipline and practical architecture ownership.
Useful where systems are complex, under-documented or commercially constrained, and the work needs someone who can understand, decide and deliver quickly.
Reducing key-person risk, improving deployment reliability, clarifying ownership and turning fragile platforms into systems that can be operated with confidence.
Capability
Selected work
A small selection from agency, product, healthcare, ecommerce, AI, cloud and integration-heavy delivery work.
Architected and delivered a global pharmaceutical intranet and grounded AI document assistant spanning SharePoint, Microsoft Graph, Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search and permission-sensitive document access.
Value: Turned a large controlled document estate into a searchable, permission-aware portal and AI assistant without bypassing existing Microsoft 365 security boundaries.
Rescued and operationalised a business-critical insurance platform after CTO departure, introducing Dockerised delivery, CDK infrastructure, CI/CD and support documentation.
Value: Reduced organisational risk and created a maintainable operating model rather than simply adding more feature work to a fragile platform.
Architected and built a hybrid Electron/Angular desktop operator app and central .NET/Angular Azure SaaS platform for food and agricultural analysis workflows.
Value: Supported unreliable-connectivity environments with local persistence, scanner file processing, LIMS integration, synchronisation, alerting and reporting.
Architected an Azure IoT air-quality monitoring platform processing continuous device telemetry through IoT Hub, Event Hubs, Stream Analytics, Azure Functions and Cosmos DB.
Value: Streamed live device state to dashboards, materialised retention-aware chart data, isolated tenants through Auth0 claims and device metadata, and automated alerting and exports.
Contact
For permanent leadership, contract architecture, platform rescue or technical advisory conversations, email is the best first step.