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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. Now I'm CTO at ClearSignal, where I took a product from idea to market while building a 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.

The stack

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

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

What I'm looking for

A CTO 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