Hands-On Engineering Leadership

I lead engineering teams and stay close to the work — architecture calls, code, and production issues included.

My background spans regulated insurance systems serving millions of customers and generating over $200M in annual premium, as well as early-stage SaaS products built from scratch. Focusing on reliability, clear ownership, and a team that can move fast without breaking trust.

Regulated Platform Experience

At Policy Expert, I led the team and architecture behind a cloud-native insurance platform built around API-driven services and event-based workflows, scaling the engineering team from 6 to 40 along the way.

The system supported:

  • Real-time customer journeys
  • Partner integrations
  • Strong security and compliance guarantees
  • Continuous modernization without service disruption

Current Focus

I’m really interested in how agentic tooling is changing day-to-day delivery. Where it speeds teams up, where it needs a human still firmly in the loop, and how AI and the human interface interact at that boundary.

Writing

This site is a working notebook — delivery experiments, design notes, and reflections on where automation is actually taking software teams.

Reach me via LinkedIn.

Founder & Hands-On Build

At Flowstate, I was the sole technical lead, designing and delivering a cloud-based business process modelling platform using Svelte, TypeScript, Python, CI/CD, and NLP — from proof-of-concept through beta and early customer onboarding.

Startup advisory (ongoing)

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