Profile
Experienced, results-driven Technology Leader with a proven track record of building and scaling high-performing, agile engineering organisations across start-up, scale-up, and large enterprise environments. I specialise in tech leadership, platform modernisation, and delivering market-leading consumer-facing products underpinned by engineering excellence.
I am deeply focused on building high-performing agile engineering teams that deliver world-class software and platforms, aligning customer needs, technology capabilities, and strong org design to formulate and execute transformational strategies. I have led globally distributed teams, fostering a culture of quality, ownership, and continuous improvement, with a strong passion and track record of recruiting, mentoring, and coaching exceptional individual contributors and engineering leaders.
With a product-oriented mindset, I have taken ideas from inception to GA release, working closely with customers, product, and senior leadership to define engineering strategies that deliver measurable business value. My experience spans multiple industries including healthcare, energy, telephony, travel, and financial services. I excel at articulating complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences and providing clear, transparent updates to senior stakeholders to ensure alignment throughout the delivery lifecycle.
Technically, I bring deep expertise in designing, building, and operating scalable, secure, cloud-first platforms. I am proficient in AWS and Azure, Kubernetes, serverless workloads, IaC-provisioned and observable platforms, leading teams to deliver at scale with a strong cost-optimisation/FinOps mindset while balancing speed and sustainability.
I have owned tech roadmaps and the full SDLC, evolving and modernising platforms in partnership with leaders across organisations in which I have worked. My focus areas include real-time scalable platforms and AI/ML-enabled solutions that unlock measurable business value. I have established metrics-driven cultures, benchmarked against industry best practice, and built upskilling programmes and initiatives to develop industry-recognised skills.
I regularly present engineering vision, strategy, and business cases to peers and senior stakeholders, identifying innovation opportunities and influencing decisions through clear, value-driven proposals. I am driven by technical excellence, empowered teams, and ensuring engineering is a strategic enabler for long-term business growth.
Experience
Senior Group Platform Engineering & SRE Manager
Sky
- →Lead SRE and Platform Engineering functions (50+ engineers), defining vision, operating model, and KPIs/OKRs; embedding Agile and engineering best practices to improve delivery velocity, reliability, and operational maturity.
- →Own a horizontal platform department serving multiple verticals, delivering shared platform capabilities, products and IDP that underpin Sky News, major live sports (Premier League, Formula 1), and core workflows feeding Sky Q, Sky Glass, and Sky Stream.
- →Align technology roadmaps with business strategy by partnering with senior stakeholders to translate objectives into clear technical programmes and measurable outcomes.
- →Build and scale high-performing teams: attract top engineering talent and specialists, fostering an inclusive engineering culture.
- →Deliver large-scale cloud and infrastructure initiatives (AWS/Azure, virtualisation on-prem) end-to-end, from architecture through execution, under strong security, compliance and risk governance.
- →Drive platform modernisation through automation, self-service enablement, resilience engineering, and unified observability to support secure, scalable, and highly available services.
- →Optimise vendor costs through FinOps practices, commercial negotiation and supplier performance management.
Engineering Manager
Adobe
- →Led and scaled multi-disciplinary engineering squads within the Adobe Express org, managing 25 individual contributors and 3 Tech Leads across Frontend, Backend, QA, and Platform Engineering.
- →Engineering squads built Content Scheduler and Caption Writer features in Adobe Express and the platforms that underpin these offerings.
- →Implemented cloud and security best practices, embedded agile ceremonies, established DevSecOps processes, and built robust CI/CD pipelines to enable frequent, reliable releases.
- →Created and delivered disaster recovery and business continuity plans (with defined RPOs and RTOs) and coordinated chaos engineering and DR testing activities every quarter.
- →Teams designed microservice and event-driven architectures incorporating containerised applications in EKS Fargate and Kubernetes, and created a fleet of serverless functions (Lambdas and Azure functions).
- →Embedded proactive observability, providing senior executives with real-time visibility into DORA metrics, risk and security posture, and developer workflows.
- →Implemented scalable AWS and Azure infrastructure using Terraform; automated deployment pipelines with Jenkins, CircleCI, and ArgoCD, reducing deployment times by 40%.
Platform Tech Lead
ContentCal
- →Joined as a contractor to help scale the SaaS product, improving social publishing functionality and building a centralised area for managing social media conversations in real-time.
- →Played a key role in establishing and expanding the engineering team, acting as a bridge between engineering and business.
- →Introduced Agile ceremonies, DevSecOps/SRE processes, and CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions.
- →Introduced Kubernetes and serverless tech to ensure scalability; created EKS clusters to achieve a multi-region architecture.
- →Implemented centralised monitoring and observability; worked on performance monitoring and security enhancements.
Chief Technical Architect (contract)
Warwick Manufacturing Group
- →Architected and engineered a robust data analytics platform leveraging native cloud services (AWS and Azure), with an Angular frontend, TypeScript backend, MongoDB and PostgreSQL databases.
- →Platform handles acquisition and analysis of personal data from multiple social and media streaming platforms, deployed on an AWS-managed Kubernetes cluster with a fleet of serverless functions.
- →Assembled and led a team of 12 engineers, resulting in an MVP used to successfully secure VC funding of £2 million.
Lead SDET (contract)
Eurostar
- →Enlisted in the Horizon Program to facilitate Eurostar's integration with a new third-party provider (Sqills), focusing on inventory, reservation and ticketing functions.
- →Expanded engineering and QE teams to accomplish the transition to the third-party provider within a year.
- →Led Agile ceremonies and architectural discussions, providing technical guidance for daily operations and roadmap.
- →Developed a cost-effective solution for seamless third-party system integration and implemented test automation in the CI/CD pipeline.
Lead SDET (contract)
AIG Life
- →Developed a robust automation microservice architecture (C# and JavaScript/TypeScript) to perform full-stack automated testing as part of a large IT transformation programme.
- →Helped build a sophisticated system responsible for processing life insurance applications at scale.
- →Assisted in the development and execution of defect management plans to mitigate underwriting errors.
- →Defined capacity planning for infrastructure scaling and growth for the new product launch.
Senior SDET
Karhoo
- →Developed an automated test architecture (SpecFlow, Postman, Newman CLI, JavaScript and GoLang) for booking functionality.
- →Developed microservices in GoLang to monitor operational endpoints of APIs and for automated acceptance testing.
- →Used GCloud, Kubernetes, Docker and Docker-compose as part of the development pipeline.
- →Collaborated with product owners and head of engineering in developing user stories and tech roadmaps.
Software Engineer
Utility Warehouse
- →Built RESTful APIs and associated microservices to integrate with third-party energy service providers.
- →Developed a comprehensive monitoring infrastructure to track the health and performance of all systems.
- →Built and supported solutions for public cloud platforms (AWS and Azure), including IaaS and PaaS products.
- →Utilised Terraform and Ansible for CI/CD pipelines; configured cloud for high scalability, resilience and disaster recovery.
Education
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Computer Science · Brunel University
Bachelor of Science (BSc)
Computer Science & Software Engineering · University of Bedfordshire