Key Highlights
Career-defining achievements and contributions.
Career Achievements
- Leading AI-native engineering transformation across a media group
- Transformed matrix structure to squad-based engineering across 5 portfolio companies
- Architected cloud-native image pipeline with 10x performance improvement
- Built and led multinational engineering teams across UK, Malta, and India
- Delivered commercial Racing Data API generating ongoing revenue
- Founded Engineering Community of Practice connecting engineers across portfolio companies
Current Passions
The ideas, technologies, and principles I'm most energised by right now.
AI Native Engineering
Leading the transformation to AI native engineering teams. Reshaping how engineers work with AI tools, rethinking team structures, and building the culture that makes it sustainable.
People-First Leadership
Deepening the practice of servant leadership in engineering. Building environments where engineers can do their best work, grow their skills, and genuinely enjoy what they do.
Engineering Culture & Community
Building and sharing practices for engineering culture at scale. Communities of Practice, knowledge sharing, and creating spaces where engineering leaders support each other.
Leadership & Current Focus
Current leadership roles, approach, and the principles that shape how I build teams and culture.
“The best engineering leaders are those who serve their teams, not the other way around.”
Head of AI & Platform Engineering
- Driving AI-native engineering transformation, embedding AI into how teams think, build, and ship
- Defining the AI and platform strategy for the UK’s national news agency, serving news, sport, data, imagery, and video at scale, 24/7/365
- Building the engineering culture and platform foundations for the next generation of media technology
The next frontier of engineering leadership is navigating the AI transformation. Not just adopting tools, but reshaping how teams think, build, and deliver.
Head of Engineering
- Led engineering across 5 portfolio companies with teams in UK, Malta, and India
- Drove squad-based transformation, reshaping how teams are structured and empowered
- Delivered the Racing Data API, a critical commercial product for the business
- Built a culture of psychological safety, autonomy, and continuous improvement
Leading across multiple companies and countries taught me that culture scales through trust and clarity of purpose, not through process and control.
Principal Software Engineer
- Led 16 engineers across multiple squads delivering media technology products
- Architected cloud-native image pipeline, reducing processing from 5 minutes to 30 seconds (10x speedup)
- Introduced Terraform-based infrastructure as code across the engineering org
- Founded and ran the engineering Community of Practice for knowledge sharing
The biggest technical wins come from empowering teams with the right tools and autonomy. The image pipeline transformation happened because engineers felt safe to challenge the status quo.
Career Journey
The roles that built a foundation of technical expertise and leadership capability.
Development Team Lead
- Led the Single Wallet project spanning teams across UK, Gibraltar, and Israel
- Delivered complex compliance requirements for regulated gambling markets
- Coordinated cross-site engineering delivery across multiple time zones
Leading across geographies for the first time taught me that alignment and communication are what drive the real value.
Senior Java Developer
- Led a team of 5 engineers building the Italian regulatory REST API
- Introduced CI/CD pipelines and automated testing practices to the team
- Delivered against tight regulatory deadlines for the Italian gambling market
Discovered that introducing testing and CI culture is as much about changing minds as changing tooling. The human side of technical change.
Software Engineer
- Built the Football Data API serving real-time sports data at scale
- Led migration of legacy systems to modern architectures
- Delivered the Olympics API for major sporting event coverage
- Worked extensively with SportsML data standards
Working on high-profile live events taught me that reliability under pressure comes from preparation, not heroics. Great systems are built by great teams.
Junior Software Developer
- Built systems for sports data delivery across multiple platforms
- Wrote commercial football data contract specifications
- First exposure to large-scale data systems and real-time processing
The early years taught me that curiosity and humility are a developer's greatest assets. Every codebase has something to teach you.
Foundations
Education, research, and early experiences that underpin everything else.
Postgraduate Researcher in Network Security
- Researched System-of-Systems security for crisis management scenarios
- Published 5 peer-reviewed academic papers on security in distributed systems
- Taught programming to undergraduate students as a lab instructor
Academic research taught me rigour and the ability to communicate complex ideas clearly. Skills that continue to prove invaluable in engineering leadership.
BSc Hons Computer Science
Strong academic foundation in software engineering, algorithms, and computer science fundamentals.
Peer-Reviewed Publications
- State-of-the-Art in System-of-Systems Security for Crisis Management
- A Survey of Security in the System-of-Systems Domain
- System-of-Systems Boundary Check in a Public Event Scenario
- Policy Translation and Reconciliation Techniques for the System-of-Systems Domain
- Data Flow Security Analysis for System-of-Systems in a Public Security Incident
Earlier beginnings at Sandford Technology (first professional development role, 2007) and Woldgate School, Pocklington, where an early curiosity about technology began.