Services
I work with SaaS companies, AI companies and scale-ups whose infrastructure has become harder to run than it should be. Each area below stands on its own. In practice they tend to overlap. Security and compliance, in particular, run through all of them.
Build a platform your engineering team can actually operate.
Most platforms aren't designed. They build up over time. Accounts get added when they're needed, pipelines are copied from the last project, and networking decisions made in year one quietly constrain everything after. I help you decide what the platform should look like, then build it: account structure, network design, container platforms, databases, infrastructure-as-code and the pipelines that deploy it all. The goal is a platform your team understands well enough to change safely.
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Security that works with engineering rather than against it.
Good cloud security is mostly good engineering. That means tight IAM, managed secrets, certificates that don't expire by surprise, reliable audit logging, tested recovery, and controls the platform enforces instead of ones people have to remember. I've worked in financial-services, enterprise and regulated environments where that is a requirement. I help growing companies reach the same standard at a proportionate scale, then answer the questions enterprise customers and auditors will ask, with evidence the platform can produce.
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Know what is happening in production before your customers tell you.
Reliability is mostly an operating problem, not a tooling problem. Dashboards and alerts help, but only when someone owns them and they reflect what customers actually experience. I help set up the signals, the process around them, and an ownership model that keeps them useful after I've gone.
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Turn AI experiments into production systems you can operate confidently.
AI workloads bring new infrastructure problems. Expensive GPUs sit idle. Models behave differently between versions. Nobody reviews the prompts. And once something is in production, there's very little visibility into it. I help teams run AI systems with the same operational discipline as the rest of the platform, and choose infrastructure that fits how the workload actually behaves.
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Senior technical leadership without needing another full-time executive.
Some companies need senior technical leadership before they need, or can justify, a permanent executive. I can join as a fractional CTO, Head of Platform, Head of Cloud, Head of Security, operations or AIOps lead, or senior technical advisor. I sit in the leadership team and stay close enough to the engineering to know what's really going on.
Fractional roles
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Ways of working
Most engagements start with a conversation about what's actually wrong. The format follows from that, and it can change as the work does.
Short, focused
A short engagement to review your architecture, security and compliance posture, cloud costs or production operations, and tell you plainly what I find.
Typical outputs
Hands-on delivery
Hands-on delivery of a defined technical outcome. I design it, build it with your team, and leave it documented and owned.
For example
Ongoing leadership
Ongoing senior leadership, typically one or more days a week. I join the leadership or engineering organisation while you build permanent capability.
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A second pair of hands
For difficult infrastructure or production problems where your team would benefit from another experienced engineer working alongside them.
Useful when
I don't offer generic 24/7 or on-call support. Troubleshooting engagements put an experienced engineer next to your team on a specific problem. They don't replace your operations function.
Tools, not logos
The technology matters less than the judgement about when to use it. For reference, this is where most of my hands-on experience sits.
Next step
Most problems don't arrive neatly labelled. Describe what's going on and I'll tell you honestly whether and how I can help.
No sales process. You'll hear back from me directly.