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About me

The short version

I've spent 20+ years building software in regulated industries like credit, compliance, and financial services. Started at Virgin Media fixing broken networks. Then Lloyds TSB where I learned how banks actually work. Then I built and shipped SaaS products at Blue Tahiti. After that I led engineering at Your People, where I rebuilt a multi-tenant SaaS platform and migrated existing customers across without disruption. Now I'm Head of Engineering at ClearSignal, where I took a product from idea to market while building the team.

I write production code. I hire and mentor engineers. I talk to customers and I work with boards on strategy. I'm as comfortable in a database schema as in a board meeting.

How I actually think

I make technology decisions based on what's best for the business. Not a static IT plan. Not what we did last time.

That means working with departments to understand their real needs. Working with leadership to understand growth strategy. Then building a roadmap that serves the business's actual success.

In regulated industries, this is especially important. Compliance isn't just a checkbox. It's part of product strategy. So is understanding your customers' operational constraints.

What I'm good at

  • Building products from scratch. I own the full stack: architecture, code, infrastructure, hiring, and go-to-market. ClearSignal went zero to real-world use in 12 months.
  • Making technical decisions that hold up at scale. I don't optimise for elegance, I optimise for what works under real customer load.
  • Working in regulated space. 20+ years in credit, compliance, and financial services. I understand regulatory constraints and how to turn them into features, not obstacles.
  • Translating messy business problems into software. Compliance workflows. Credit decisioning. Data integration. Complex logic becomes systems.
  • Shipping on schedule. I build production-ready systems that customers depend on. Reliability isn't negotiable. A regulated industry background means I don't compromise.
  • Using AI to ship faster. Modern AI tools let small teams do work that used to require much larger teams. I use this to move mountains with modest resources.

Building AI features

There's a real difference between coding with AI tools and building AI into a product. Most of my recent work is the second kind: AI as a core capability people rely on, not a convenience for the engineer.

  • Agentic workflows. MarketStrike, which I built end to end, runs autonomous agents that research leads, monitor live market signals, and draft outreach, with every run traceable and held for human review.
  • Real-time classification. MoxiProtect detects and classifies harmful social-media content at scale, protecting public figures from targeted abuse.
  • RAG and decision engines. At ClearSignal, a multi-LLM layer over a real-time risk-signal pipeline surfaces AML, KYC, KYB and credit decisions with evidence-backed rationale.
  • MCP servers. I expose platform capabilities to AI agents through MCP, so they can do real work in the system rather than just describe it.

The stack

.NET / C#, SQL Server, modern web frameworks (Vue, React), cloud infrastructure (Azure, Google Cloud, hybrid), data pipelines, API design, DevOps, security for regulated environments.

On the AI side: generative AI, RAG systems, agentic AI, and MCP. Built into the product itself, not bolted on.

I learn tools as needed. What matters is solving the problem.

Certifications

  • Google AI Professional Certification. The applied AI work I already do: building it into products, running agentic workflows, training models with RAG.
  • Google CyberSecurity Professional Certification. Security for regulated environments, where a breach isn't an option.
  • IBM AI Agents and Agentic Workflows Specialization. Designing AI agents that do real work in production, not demos.

What I'm looking for

A Head of Engineering or VP Engineering role at a business where:

  • Technology decisions drive business outcomes (not the other way around)
  • The board values a hands-on technical leader who also speaks strategy
  • We're in regulated or data-heavy space where business logic matters
  • Speed matters, but reliability matters more
  • You want someone who builds teams while shipping code