Services

How I help engineering teams ship reliable platforms.

Hands-on engagements that combine platform design with the day-to-day delivery work needed to make it real. Each area below lists what I do, the stack I use and anonymised examples from past engagements.

Cloud platform engineering

Greenfield and brownfield platforms on AWS, GCP and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, with secure multi-account foundations, networking, identity and cost guardrails.

What I do

Landing zones and account / project factories
Multi-cloud and hybrid topologies
FinOps-aware platform design

Selected engagements

Multicloud platform on OCI + GCP for a new digital-only retail bank in the Gulf region, with AI-driven personalisation and self-healing operations.
AWS cloud foundation for the mobile banking platform of one of the largest banks in the Middle East.
AWS-based global services platform used by millions, complemented by Cloud Foundry, OpenStack and VMware.

Infrastructure as Code

Production-grade Terraform module ecosystems and pipelines built for reuse across teams, brands and environments.

What I do

Reusable Terraform module libraries
Spacelift, Atlantis and GitOps workflows
Drift detection, policy as code, automated promotion

Selected engagements

Global IaC standards and a shared module library rolled out across business units of an international software group with multiple brands.
Extensive Terraform module ecosystem with Spacelift-based automation for a Middle Eastern bank's mobile platform.

CI/CD and delivery

Standardised pipelines and developer platforms that move teams from ad-hoc scripts to reliable, observable delivery.

What I do

Pipeline templates and golden paths
Container, Kubernetes and serverless delivery
Release strategies: blue/green, canary, progressive delivery

Selected engagements

Standardised CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure templates across the business units of a multi-brand technology group.
End-to-end delivery automation for a first-of-kind distributed-ledger (DLT) gold-trading service at a global UK-based bank.
Jenkins-based CI/CD foundation for a leading Polish retail bank.

Kubernetes and containers

Design and day-2 operation of large-scale Kubernetes estates, from cluster fleet management to workload-level reliability.

What I do

Cluster fleet design and lifecycle management
Workload migration and progressive cutover
Security baselines, network and policy controls

Selected engagements

Backbone Kubernetes estate (Rancher) for the global IT infrastructure of a major consumer-electronics manufacturer.
Kubernetes-based platform underpinning a digital-only retail bank in the Gulf region.

SRE and observability

Reliability programmes that pair SLOs with the telemetry, runbooks and auto-healing needed to actually meet them.

What I do

SLOs, error budgets and incident response
Metrics, logs and tracing - end to end
Self-healing patterns for Kubernetes and managed services

Selected engagements

Observability and incident response on the global K8s estate of a major consumer-electronics manufacturer.
Auto-healing operations for a Gulf-region digital-only retail bank.
Reliability and stability programme for an enterprise IoT solutions vendor running mostly on AWS.

AI/ML platforms

Infrastructure for cognitive AI and machine-learning workloads, from feature stores to model serving, observability and governance.

What I do

MLOps platforms on AWS, GCP and OCI
Secure model deployment and integration into business processes
Data and AI workload cost optimisation

Selected engagements

Cognitive AI / ML cloud platform on AWS, built from scratch with the DevOps team I established and led, for a European insurance group.
Infrastructure foundation for Big Data and AI workloads on the mobile platform of a Middle Eastern bank.
AI-driven personalisation embedded into the platform of a Gulf-region digital-only retail bank.

R&D and integration

Evaluating emerging technologies and harmonising diverse tech ecosystems across business units, brands and acquired companies.

What I do

Technology evaluation and proofs of concept
Cross-portfolio integration strategy
Standards, blueprints and platform adoption

Selected engagements

Leading R&D to evaluate and integrate emerging technologies into the stacks of a multi-brand technology group.
First-of-kind production blockchain rollout (Corda-based DLT) for a global UK-based bank.
Integration strategy harmonising diverse technology ecosystems across different brand portfolios.

Industries I work with

Fintech and retail banking
Insurance
Telecommunications
IoT and connected products
AI / ML platforms
Distributed ledger and blockchain

Languages I use

Python
TypeScript
Bash
Go (reading)

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