I build the Internal Developer Platforms that ship — and the AI workflows that compress a quarter of work into a week. For teams of 5 or 5,000.
What I do
Self-service infrastructure that gets out of the way. From Day-1 greenfield platforms at startups to reshaping IDPs at organisations climbing through scale, I build the kind of platform engineers actually want to use — modern, GitOps-native, Crossplane-powered.
At IOG, cut EKS environment provisioning from days to minutes.
Production Kubernetes at scale, with SRE discipline baked in. Deep, hands-on across the full surface of AWS and GCP — multi-region clusters, error budgets, incident command — the boring infrastructure that keeps the lights on while a business climbs to scale.
At DAZN, owned a zero-downtime Transit Gateway migration for millions of concurrent live-broadcast users.
LLM-augmented infrastructure workflows that compress quarters of work into weeks. Agentic ops, AI-assisted IaC, prompt-engineered guardrails — applied to the real, messy work of platform engineering.
At IOG, integrated LLMs into infrastructure config — 60%+ reduction in manual boilerplate.
Working with me
A handful of shapes, depending on where you are — from Day-1 startup foundations through full-time leadership to short, focused audits. All of them deeply technical, all hands-on. Drop me a line and we'll figure out which one fits.
Permanent technical leadership
Principal-, Staff-, or Architect-level platform engineering. Hands-on technical leadership across the full surface of platform work — cloud-native infrastructure, IDP architecture, AI integration — with the SRE discipline to keep it running under real load.
Zero to production-ready
A complete cloud-native foundation for an early-stage company. Cloud account structure, Kubernetes from scratch, GitOps pipelines, secrets and observability, the on-call playbook — opinionated, modern, and built to scale from day one without becoming the thing you replace at Series B.
Foundations and the climb to scale
Designing the cloud-native foundations underneath everything — and the rearchitectures that carry a business through the next order of magnitude. AWS or GCP, multi-cloud topology, regulated-system bridges, fleet management, and the boring decisions that compound when traffic does.
Long-engagement strategy
Strategic platform and AI guidance for scaleups that don't (yet) have a Principal-level platform engineer in-house. Roadmaps, RFCs, vendor and architecture decisions, hiring rubrics — the work that compounds quietly over months.
Hands-on team capability
Bringing engineering teams up to speed on LLM-augmented workflows. Workshops, agentic ops integration, AI-assisted infrastructure tooling — and the production-rollout patterns that keep AI from quietly breaking things in your supply chain.
Platform · cost · AI readiness
Short, focused reviews of an existing investment. Whether it's an under-performing platform, runaway AWS or GCP spend, or readiness to bring AI into the engineering org — delivered as a written report with concrete, ranked recommendations.
AI strategy
AI adoption isn't just an engineering problem. If you're a non-technical leader trying to figure out where AI fits in your business — what to build, what to buy, how to deploy safely — I help with that too. Same engineer's lens; clearer business outcomes.
Talk through your problem →About
I've spent fifteen years building the unglamorous, cloud-native infrastructure that lets product teams ship without asking permission.
I've done Day-1 platforms for startups and the rearchitectures that carry businesses through scale. Greenfield Kubernetes at Sky Betting, global AWS infrastructure at DAZN, multi-tenant GCP at CloudQuery, Crossplane-powered IDPs at IOG — the through-line has been the same: the best platform is one that disappears.
Deep, hands-on across the full surface of AWS and GCP, with the SRE discipline to keep it running under real load.
AI is the next compounding lever — done well, it makes everything I've built so far move faster. Done badly, it adds a layer of risk no one needs. I help teams do it well.
Get in touch
Hiring for a senior platform role, building an IDP, or trying to make sense of where AI fits — drop me a line.