Your team, delivering with confidence. shipping what matters. making better decisions. using AI effectively. meeting business outcomes. running with momentum. kicking goals. supporting the strategy.
I partner with forward-thinking organisations on their most ambitious engineering goals. Embedded in your team — leading, advising, supporting — across strategy, architecture, AI adoption, delivery, and execution. Twenty years of experience applied to the decisions that matter, setting you up for lasting success.
How I help
AI Strategy & Applied Intelligence
Most organisations know AI matters but not where it actually helps. I cut through the hype: high-value use cases for LLMs and foundation models, practical adoption your team can own, and architecture decisions for AI-native systems. From prompt engineering to RAG to responsible deployment — built to last, not just to demo.
Technical Strategy
Architecture, technology choices, delivery approach, which supports the business strategy. I bring the outside perspective; the calls are yours to make. My job is making sure they're well-informed ones.
Leadership, Teams & Hiring
I coach engineering leaders, build the capability already in the room, and help you hire the right people into the right roles. Team structure, hiring processes, leadership development — the people architecture that makes everything else possible.
Building, Making, Doing
I don't just advise — I ship. Requirements gathering, architecture, writing code, testing, quality assurance, delivery management, and process improvement. When the work needs doing, I'm in the codebase and in the stand-up, not watching from a slide deck. Real output, real velocity, real accountability.
Engineering leadership that compounds.
My background spans cloud architecture, platform engineering, distributed systems, DevOps, high-availability infrastructure, and applied AI — from LLMs and foundation models through to AI-native product design. I've scaled teams and technology from startup to enterprise across financial services, mining and resources, healthcare, retail, broadcasting, gaming, government, and early-stage startups, and I've seen what separates organisations that ship from organisations that stall.
I work as a strategic partner to your leadership — embedded in the work, not observing from the outside. I help engineering organisations diagnose what's slowing them down, make the structural and cultural changes that unlock velocity, and build the capability to sustain it. The goal is compounding improvement: better decisions, stronger teams, faster delivery, quarter after quarter.
Originally from Edinburgh, I spent over a decade building software and leading teams in London before settling in Perth, Western Australia — where I'm happily based and available for remote and on-site engagements worldwide.
Let's talk about what's next.
I'd love to grab a coffee and chat, or talk about our next project together.
References available on request.