Daniel P.

  1. Engineering
  2. Cloud Computing
  3. JavaScript
  4. Chief Technology Officer
  5. DevOps Architect
  6. Team Building

Building teams and applications to help business grow

I specialise in combining C-suite level migration and transformation strategy with hands-on application development, solutions design, and management expertise. I have successfully built global solutions across the UK, various European countries, China, and Australia. My experience includes designing, managing, and operating solutions for diverse industries such as banking, insurance, and government. This combination of technical expertise and experience in people/process transformation gives me…

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Work

  • Barings

    Barings

    After Barings embarked on a cloud first strategy in mid 2021, I joined to refine and deliver on the strategy.

    I was responsible for building a team with an agile, automation focused ethos that works closely with development teams and stakeholders. I hired a global team spanning 3 time zones to deliver a secure and compliant cloud platform, for Barings to migrate existing applications to and build new business capabilities (Datalake and AI).

    barings.com

  • Digital insurance | B2B2C insurance | iptiQ

    Responsible for oversight, design and implementation of solutions for SwissRe’s portfolio of insurtech startups globally. This included setting technology North Star, strategy and roadmap to enable the startups to deliver effectively at scale.


    • From launching a full stack Insurance platform in china to scale to over 100 million users.
    • Insurance platform spanning Europe and Australia to deliver B2B2C SaaS platform.
    iptiq.com

Experience

  • Barings

    Barings

    Head of Cloud Platform

    Sep 2021 - Jun 2023

    Founded in 1762, Barings is a asset manager with over $340 billion of assets under management for clients around the world.

    • Setting the cloud strategy and running the cloud platform team to enable migrations and growth.
    • Hiring DevOps, security and architects in the US, UK and Romania
    • Setting service levels and patterns. To deliver 24/7 technical support.
    • Delivery of mature CI/CD systems (code quality, security scanning, control gates).
    • Founding FinOps practice with project-level showback (FinOps maturity).
    • Founding CCoE and cloud oversight bodies.
    • AI powered trading system.
    • Developed an 8 pillar maturity model with KPIs.
  • Swiss Re

    Swiss Re

    Senior Architect Solutions and Digital

    Sep 2018 - Dec 2021

    Global reinsurer covering P&C and L&H product lines to other insurance providers, governments, marene and many other industries.

    • Building globally distributed high performance DevOps teams in UK, Switzerland, Latvia and China to deliver new insurtech platforms for SwissRe.
    • Scaling a full insurance platform to handle 100 million concurrent users for the Chinese market.
    • Meeting MLPS level 3 technical and operational requirements for a cloud hosted full L&H insurance system.
    • Design and delivery of a multi-jurisdiction, globally distributed CaaS and CI/CD platform
    • Root cause analysis, stabilisation and recovery strategy/roadmap for a group insurance company.
    • Successfully rescoped and simplified the design, developed technical and team architecture, streamline technologies, and re-design hosting infrastructure to reduce cost for an insurtech in less than 3 months.
  • KPMG UK

    KPMG UK

    DevOps Architect (Manager)

    Jun 2014 - Sep 2017

    KPMG CloudOps is part of KPMG's consulting practice offering Cloud Transformation, Hosting and Consulting.

    • Founding and growing KPMG Cloud Operations to design, build and manage systems in AWS, Azure and GCP to over 100 people and £300 million in revenue
    • Infrastructure Architecture and Operations of the Civil Service Learning portal for UK government
    • Delivered hybrid cloud platform & operation support for the KPMG McLaren Alliance Tools
    • Design and delivery of on-premise to cloud (Azure and AWS) migration for KPMG.
    • Architected & migrated BRC service from on-premise to Azure in order to meet security requirements to comply with security GDPR/ PCI DSS/ SOC 2.

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