I help founders, leadership teams and investors make better technology decisions: platform and architecture choices, AI adoption in engineering, scaling teams, and understanding what a technology estate is really worth. It's grounded in 22+ years of building and running production systems, and everything I recommend is something I've done myself.
An independent review of your platform before a big decision: replatforming, build vs buy, breaking up a monolith, or choosing between serverless, containers and Kubernetes.
Getting real productivity from coding agents without losing quality: tool choice, spec-driven workflows, review discipline, measurement, and governance through an LLM gateway.
Senior technology leadership a few days a month: technical strategy, roadmap and hiring decisions, vendor evaluation, and a sounding board for founders and engineering leaders.
For investors and acquirers: an evidence-based assessment of a company's technology, team, security posture and scalability, with the risks and the cost of fixing them.
Event-driven design on AWS, observability, Kubernetes and networking, peak-trading readiness, and cloud cost reviews that find real savings.
Warehouses and pipelines (Redshift, Snowflake, dbt, CDC), data contracts, and a tracking architecture that marketing and engineering can both rely on.
A few days a month of ongoing CTO-level guidance, reviews and a sounding board.
Typically two to four weeks, ending in a written recommendation and a walkthrough.
Half-day or full-day sessions with leadership or engineering teams on a specific topic.
Based in London, working remotely or on site. Every engagement starts with a short, no-obligation call to understand the problem and whether I'm the right fit.
Send a few lines about your company, the problem you're facing and your timeline. I'll reply personally, usually within two working days.