I lead engineering teams.
I lead on AI.

• Grew an engineering capability from 2 developers to ~20 engineers across 3 delivery teams, hiring around 20 people, including DevOps, and bringing testing into delivery.
• Now lead engineering across multiple teams alongside Product, Delivery, Architecture and DevOps, covering line management, coaching, hiring and workforce planning.
• Delivered an Alpha on schedule and led a product into live service, designing the overall delivery approach with specialist engineers implementing it.
• Introduced the engineering lifecycle the teams work to: technical elaboration, coding standards, checklist-based peer review, test evidence and sign-off before release.
• Championed AI adoption in the teams, encouraging spikes and prototyping with Microsoft Copilot on the Power Platform to prepare for upcoming technology.
• Founded a Microsoft engineering community of 200+ members across engineering, architecture and product, running technical sessions with Microsoft and AI walkthroughs.
• Designed a delivery model that let multiple teams build in parallel on one shared Microsoft platform, and reviewed it with Microsoft engineering specialists.
• Brought maintenance, platform upgrades and security vulnerabilities into sprint planning, with the highest-risk fixes prioritised for the next sprint.

Associate Automation Developer until June 2023

• Took over an unfinished UiPath automation as development lead, reworked the build and released it through Azure DevOps CI/CD, making it run more reliably end to end.
• Replaced a complex Logic App with a C# Azure Function that calculates data once a day and caches it, cutting processing time.
• Built business automations in C#, Azure Functions and Logic Apps, including automated date and SLA calculations.
• Took on leadership in a 3–4 developer Oracle Integration Cloud team: designed complex process flows, handled incidents, trained junior developers and mentored students in Python.

• Led the council’s adoption of robotic process automation: wrote the automation strategy, integrated Blue Prism and set up the design, testing and release practices behind it.
• Introduced Agile-style delivery and won stakeholder backing with demos, videos and roadmaps, helping secure further investment in automation.

• Rationalised 1,000+ applications into ~150 software solutions during a technology refresh.
• Gathered requirements, managed a temporary UAT team, introduced a controlled software-request and review process and advised on go/no-go rollout decisions.

• Joined through a software development apprenticeship. Developed, tested and maintained back-end banking systems in COBOL, DB2 and JCL on IBM mainframe.
• Worked across the full lifecycle in Agile teams: changes, testing, implementation, and business and technical documentation.