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Work Experience

• Engineering Manager, Data & AI, Sainsbury's

  Jul, 2024 - Present

  Engineering leadership role within a national-scale UK retailer serving approximately 20 million customers weekly.

  • Led multiple engineering teams responsible for personalised offers, recommendations, and customer decisioning platforms operating at national scale.

  • Accountable for delivery outcomes, operational stability, and team effectiveness across large-scale data and ML platforms.

  • Worked closely with Product, Data Science, and Platform teams to translate strategic objectives into clear, deliverable roadmaps.

  • Co-led the formation of a new engineering tribe, contributing to capacity planning, capability assessment, and budget alignment.

  • Defined technical direction balancing scalability, resilience, cost control, and delivery predictability within a governance-heavy environment.

  • Built and developed distributed teams through hiring, calibration, and progression, supporting squads totalling 20+ engineers.

• Founder & CTO, TechSignals

  Aug, 2023 - Jun, 20251 year 10 months

  Bootstrapped financial intelligence venture delivering production-grade analytics platforms.

  • Built and operated a production-grade financial intelligence platform from concept to real-world adoption.

  • Applied large language models and computer vision pragmatically to improve data quality and analytical workflows.

  • Led a small senior engineering team with a strong emphasis on delivery discipline under tight commercial constraints.

  • Delivered APIs and integrations adopted by global partners, reaching tens of millions of end users.

• CTO — Data & AI Strategy, Dashy Dash

  Sep, 2021 - Dec, 20232 years 3 months

  Executive engineering leadership role during early growth, establishing data and ML foundations for scale.

  • Designed and delivered data normalisation, enrichment, and ML pipelines improving throughput, reliability, and decision quality.

  • Introduced LLMs into production pipelines selectively to improve data quality and accelerate delivery.

  • Built and led a globally distributed engineering organisation with async-first operating standards.

  • Delivered measurable platform improvements including approximately 70% latency reduction and 30% infrastructure cost savings.

• Senior Technical Lead (Mobile & Data), AND Digital

  Jan, 2019 - Sep, 20212 years 8 months

  Senior technical leadership role embedded within client teams across mobile and data initiatives.

  • Owned technical direction, delivery standards, and team effectiveness in complex, governance-heavy enterprise environments.

  • Worked with tier-1 organisations to define operating models and delivery alignment.

  • Resolved systemic performance and scalability issues through architectural intervention rather than additional process.

• Head of Mobile Technology, Fourth

  Jan, 2017 - Dec, 20181 year 11 months

  Leadership role for mobile engineering within a hospitality SaaS platform.

  • Led mobile engineering across five squads spanning onshore and offshore teams.

  • Improved delivery reliability, product quality, and user retention through platform modernisation and clearer technical standards.

• Senior Mobile Software Engineer, Carma

  Jan, 2015 - Dec, 20161 year 11 months

  Senior individual contributor role focused on scalable mobile platform delivery.

  • Delivered and scaled mobile applications prior to transitioning into full-time engineering leadership.

• Independent Consultant & Technical Trainer, 

  Jan, 2012 - Dec, 20142 years 11 months

  Independent consulting and training work across mobile platforms, UX, and software engineering.

  • Delivered contract-based mobile and UX work for client teams during a transitional period between leadership roles.

  • Designed and delivered professional training programmes in JavaScript, C#, and Java for developers and technical teams.

  • Combined hands-on delivery with teaching and mentoring, reinforcing strong foundations in software architecture and engineering practice.

• Chief Technology Officer, DOL

  Jan, 2005 - Dec, 20116 years 11 months

  CTO role for high-visibility national-scale platforms operating under strict reliability requirements.

  • Led development and operation of systems with high availability and low tolerance for failure.

  • Worked directly with senior political stakeholders, including former prime ministers, on systems operating under public scrutiny.

• Software Engineer, 

  Jan, 1997 - Dec, 20047 years 11 months

  Early career across software engineering, systems, and platforms.

  • Worked on business intelligence systems, enterprise platforms, and large-scale web applications.

  • Experience included commercial videogame development and teaching TCP/IP and network architecture, building strong systems-level foundations.

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