For CTOs & Engineering Leaders

As platforms mature, technical decisions increasingly involve trade-offs between reliability, security, delivery speed, and cost. I support CTOs and engineering leaders with independent, senior input on cloud and platform strategy, helping simplify complexity, reduce operational risk, and focus engineering effort where it delivers the most value.

Engagements often include Kubernetes and platform reviews, improving logging, monitoring, and SRE practices, strengthening cloud security and auditability, and identifying concrete cost optimisation opportunities across infrastructure and data pipelines. This work is grounded in experience operating highly reliable systems in regulated environments, with particular emphasis on realistic disaster recovery planning and testing, so teams understand how systems fail and how they are restored under pressure, including in PCI DSS contexts where applicable.