About Me
I am a pragmatic, hands-on engineering leader with 18+ years of experience building and scaling software platforms across startups and scaleups.
My work spans distributed systems design, engineering leadership, and delivering products from early architecture through to production scale.
I started as the third employee at DueDil as it grew to 150+ people, and later scaled the engineering organisation at Vorboss from 3 to around 35 engineers.
I enjoy roles that combine deep technical execution with product thinking, stakeholder collaboration, and team leadership.
Impact Highlights
- Scaled engineering organisation at Vorboss from 3 to around 35 engineers
- Built internal and partner-facing platforms used daily by 100+ operational users
- Early engineer at DueDil, helping scale platform to around 1M MAU and 40M+ companies indexed
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Work Experience
Joined as the first senior engineer and quickly became Head of Engineering, scaling the team to around 35 engineers with approximately five team leads reporting directly. Responsible for architecture and delivery of internal platforms supporting rollout and operation of a large-scale fibre network.
- Architected and led Compass, a graph-based network intelligence platform built on Neo4j
- Built Volcano, an internal CRM and order generation platform
- Designed and delivered an External Channel API for partner availability search and ordering
- Introduced event-driven architecture with Kafka and a GraphQL service layer
- Hired and mentored engineers and team leads across multiple teams
- Continue to work around 90% hands-on across architecture, implementation, and technical delivery
Awin is a global affiliate marketing network. I was part of the Sabre team, responsible for recording and processing post-ad-click transactions at scale. Much of my work focused on modernising the legacy PHP4-based tracking system.
- Developed backend services in Java using Spring
- Maintained legacy PHP systems while contributing to platform modernisation
- Worked across distributed architecture handling high-volume transactional data
- Mentored junior engineers and collaborated closely with product teams
DueDil was a high-growth startup offering business intelligence through a searchable data platform. I joined as the third employee and helped grow the engineering team and technical foundation as the company scaled beyond 100 people.
- Built the major search platform using React and Elasticsearch
- Developed Python data ingestion microservices and core platform services
- Designed and implemented the core DueDil API
- Migrated legacy Drupal systems to Symfony services
- Led a team of around 10 engineers on the core company intelligence platform and API
- Scaled the API platform covering intelligence on 40M+ European companies
- Supported a platform serving around 1M monthly active users
- Introduced CI pipelines, automated testing, and stronger operational monitoring