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 a unique perspective and the ability to effectively run and manage complex situations.
Outside of tech I like strong coffee, Hiking, Skiing, Sailing and Traveling to new and interesting locations.
Currently, I work with early startups and provide consulting services on DevOps, application architecture, and tech strategy. I am open to Fractional CTO roles or consulting in cloud computing (AWS, GCP, Azure), Solution architecture, or tech strategy.
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).
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.
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.
Sep 2018 — Dec 2021
Swiss Re
Senior Architect Solutions and Digital
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.
Jun 2014 — Sep 2017
KPMG UK
DevOps Architect (Manager)
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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