Certifiable!
Certification: is it really worth? With enough time on my hands, it was time to find out.
My teams engineer lean software loved by users.
I am a Principal Solutions Director: an engineering and delivery leader of over 18 years who breaks down silos to ship great software people trust. My teams have delivered in healthcare, insurance, hospitality, finance and energy.
- 2025–present
- 3 production AI products for insurers, extracting claims at over 97% accuracy in 16 seconds
- 2021–2023
- 114k COVID treatments from a national NHS platform I co-architected
- 2008–2014
- Over 100m financial reports from an API I built, with zero downtime
Selected writing
Learning to Love Sequence Diagrams Thanks to Mermaid
Creating even simple sequence diagrams drove me to distraction, but the code-driven approach from Mermaid has finally solved that problem.
Talking Software and Security
I recently achieved a personal goal of delivering a rather nerve-wracking but rewarding talk at another excellent ESRM conference in London. Take a look at the slides!