30+ years. From software engineer to engineering leader.
A career built around one recurring challenge: take complex technology, create the structure around it, build the right team, and turn it into something that works for the business.
I bring deep technical experience together with engineering leadership, organizational transformation, AI and Big Data, cloud platforms and commercial delivery.
CAREER IN ONE VIEW
Technical depth → leadership → transformation → complexity → commercial outcomes → AI.
My career has moved through hands-on software engineering, engineering management, large-scale transformation and AI-led platforms. The common thread has been building teams and technology that can operate effectively in the real world.
Recent leadership experience
Keesing Technologies / IN Groupe
Head of Engineering · Amsterdam
Engineering integration, ISO 27001, delivery predictability and organizational change. Protected an €11m yearly profit and identified €200k+ in provider savings.
Collinson
DevOps & Engineering Manager · London
Delivery leadership across 4 teams and 30+ consultants. Designed a greenfield PCI DSS AWS environment supporting $1bn+ payment transactions and led an audit through a major production upgrade.
Agile Heuristics
Agile Transformation Consultant
Hands-on transformation consultancy for startups and small engineering teams, including training, transformation planning and customer acquisition.
Smart Data Foundry
Technical Product & Software Engineering Manager
Led a greenfield AWS AI / Big Data platform from concept to market in 6 months and grew the team from 0 to 12.
Elsevier
Director of Software Engineering · London
Built an engineering organization from the ground up to 120 and delivered a revenue-making SaaS AI platform for pharmaceutical drug discovery.
TUI
Software Engineering Lead · London
Led an 80-person organization across five European hubs on a £16m transformation, supporting a centralized platform for 27m customers and more than £100m in annual savings.
What I bring
Building teams, developing leaders, creating healthy engineering cultures and keeping people aligned through change.
Software engineering, cloud, Big Data, AI/ML, architecture, DevOps and the practical use of emerging tools.
Creating the processes, governance and organizational shape that make complex engineering environments work.
Connecting engineering to product, customers and commercial outcomes — and creating predictability when it matters.
Foundation & credentials
BSc Hons Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence
University of Edinburgh, 1998
Executive MBA
Quantic School of Business & Technology
Certifications
Certified SAFe Agilist · AWS Cloud Practitioner
Earlier foundation
Approximately 10 years in hands-on Java, backend and full-stack engineering before moving fully into engineering leadership.
The longer story
The detailed career history is documented on the Experience page. I’m deliberately keeping this page focused on the shape of my career and the experience I bring to an engineering leadership role.