Technical founder and engineering leader. I take ideas from a blank repo to production that holds up under millions of users, then write about what the climb actually taught me.
- 9+
- years shipping
- 30M+
- users served
- 27
- countries visited
- ∞
- curiosity
My Private Ledger
B2B fintech SaaS for social-media agencies: open banking, crypto, multi-entity accounting. Built from zero with one co-founder.
MasterCard CFR
Consumer Fraud Risk — the first-of-its-kind AI that stops bank-transfer scams before money leaves the account, for 14 of Britain's biggest banks. Kept always-on on a hybrid, on-prem platform (Azure Stack).
Plexure Loyalty
Highly available loyalty platform on Azure with full observability. Message-driven functions handling 2M events/day.
DevOps doesn't start with a pipeline
The most effective DevOps move I made at a card network wasn't Kubernetes or CI/CD — it was making work visible. A story about the human feedback loop, and why leaders should fix it first.
Notes on building this site
Why I threw out the template and hand-rolled an editorial portfolio — a warm paper palette, a 2D-canvas globe, and a résumé you can type at, with zero animation libraries.