Contract engineer/architect,
specialising in AWS and application development.

Hands-on. Happy designing new systems, modernising existing ones and fixing the bits in-between.

AWS· Serverless· TypeScript· Node.js· React· CDK· Terraform· Security· Agentic AI

    • Building a proof of concept to test an idea
    • Taking an idea to a working MVP
    • Turning a prototype into a production-ready product
    • Designing systems that can handle growth
    • Building your infrastructure as reusable IaC, with good practices baked in
    • Setting up AWS properly, with landing zones, networking and SCPs
    • Hardening your security and getting you compliant (FSBP, CIS)
    • Setting up monitoring, alerting and tracing
    • Connecting your platform to third-party services
    • Bringing separate systems into one platform
    • Moving legacy systems onto modern AWS services
    • Reviewing your architecture and giving you a prioritised roadmap
    • Designing agentic workflows and AI features
    • Taking an AI prototype into production
    • Hosting AI systems on AWS, secure and able to scale
    • Reviewing your AWS bill to find where you can save
    • Moving costly workloads to serverless, so you only pay for what you use
    • Removing resources you’re paying for but don’t need
    • Defining the architecture for a new product
    • Choosing the tech stack and tools
    • Setting engineering standards for your team
    • Shaping technical strategy with your leadership team
01

Building a search MVP

Took a search platform from concept to MVP in under three months, with an integration layer that takes inventory from 10+ suppliers in their own formats.

02

Hardening a platform’s AWS security

Led a platform-wide AWS security assessment, then defined and delivered a hardening roadmap across IAM, networking, logging, monitoring and platform configuration. Took the Security Hub security score from the mid-50s to over 90%, with AWS Config recording every resource so the score covers everything.

03

Bringing acquired products together

Designed a shared platform for sessions, matching and billing, pulling four acquired products into one customer journey. Every product behaves consistently, and customers can switch services mid-session.

04

Opening the platform to external partners

Led a two-way integration that let external healthcare providers book directly into the platform, with updates flowing both ways. It was part of a wider piece of work opening up bookings to external partners. They got a better booking experience, and the business got more bookings coming straight in.

05

Prototyping AI self-service

Built and evaluated a prototype of agentic booking flows on Amazon Bedrock, designed to let users find, cancel and reschedule bookings themselves and take pressure off customer support.

06

Moving to serverless

Moved the platform to serverless-first AWS and cut infrastructure costs by around 40%. As part of that, rebuilt a stateful booking flow off EKS as a Step Functions workflow, so it no longer needs crons running every few minutes to check for updates.

07

Turning client builds into a product

Set the architecture that turned bespoke client event builds into one configurable platform. It became the company’s highest-grossing product, used by five enterprise clients.

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1-hour call.

That’s usually enough to find out if we can work together. Happy with short or long term contracts.