I’m a software engineer with over 20 years of experience designing and building backend systems. I gravitate towards environments where I can guide platform direction and engineering practices, preferring roles with technical leadership elements over pure people management.
My experience spans startups, small businesses and larger organisations, where I’ve applied my skills across a range of technical and organisational contexts, often taking ownership of architecture and process, and stepping into product direction when needed.
I'm the author of Dogma, an open-source ecosystem for building distributed, event-driven applications in Go. This project reflects my focus on building systems that stay maintainable over time, with clear architectural boundaries and a strong emphasis on developer experience.
I care deeply about how software is built, both for the long-term reliability and adaptability it enables, and for the love of the craft itself. As such, I favour lean, team-led processes that emphasise technical rigour and collective ownership; I’ve found that well-structured systems often reflect the clarity and cohesion of the teams that create them.
Engineering of distributed and centralized polyglot systems with an emphasis on clarity, modularity, and long-term maintainability.
Selection and integration of storage technologies to meet varying performance, durability, and data modelling requirements and access patterns.
Development of automation pipelines and versioning strategies that enable rapid feedback, repeatable builds, and low-friction deployments.
Design and operation of developer platforms and production infrastructure with emphasis on operability, developer experience, and self-service.
Instrumentation and operational readiness practices to improve visibility, reliability, and response across distributed systems.
Implementation of authentication, identity, and access control systems across cloud, platform, and application boundaries.
Shared responsibility for technical and product leadership across a startup delivering "Compliance as a Service" for online gambling operators in the United States. The platform is a comprehensive solution for complying with geolocation and other state-mandated regulatory requirements. BetSecure is owned by the parent company of Codeworx, my previous employer.
Co-led hiring for all technical staff, forming four cross-functional, non-hierarchical teams with a culture of trust, shared ownership, and autonomy.
Introduced remote mob programming as a core practice, eliminating pull requests, formal code reviews, and traditional issue tracking in favour of continuous collaboration and lightweight, team-managed roadmaps.
Introduced practices to support cross-team alignment and sustained engagement, including weekly open-floor discussions and “free Fridays” for learning, technical exploration, and cross-domain exposure. Helped balance the intensity of mob programming with space for personal initiatives.
Directed the architecture and implementation of backend systems, including geolocation services, API gateways and compliance logic. Services were built in Go using an event-sourced message-driven architecture, following CQRS and DDD principles. Led ongoing development of Dogma in collaboration with Codeworx engineers.
Built an internal developer platform enabling in-cluster development workflows using Telepresence and dynamically provisioned Kubernetes environments. Enabled development with real domains, TLS certificates, and cloud infrastructure, eliminating common dev/prod parity pitfalls.
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Joined an established team of PHP developers responsible for the backoffice component of the company's online poker and casino gaming platform, which powered the Poker.com brand during the height of poker's global popularity.
The system included reporting, player management, and operational tools used by executives, customer support, marketing staff, and fraud analysts.
Fostered collaboration with the team responsible for the player-facing gameplay components, ensuring core functionality was accessible to operations staff through the backoffice system. This allowed operations staff to configure complex gameplay and promotional aspects without developer involvement, significantly reducing toil and increasing operational flexibility.
Developed a job management system for electricians and mobile IT technicians, providing task scheduling, time tracking, and invoicing features across desktop and early smartphone devices.
Worked largely independently with technical guidance from a skilled Python developer. Collaborated with the general manager, who acted as product owner, to keep features aligned with business processes.
Built a comprehensive web-based business operations platform to support the company's expansion from shared hosting resale into dedicated server and co-location services, operated from its own data centres.
Developed by a two-person team, I held primary responsibility for architecture and design. Worked closely with the co-founders, customer support, sales, and hardware technicians to ensure the platform's features aligned with their processes.
The system boasted a broad feature set supporting all aspects of the company's daily operations.