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Services

I help teams and founders ship better software, through hands-on technical leadership, honest audits, and the processes that let good engineers do their best work. Engagements are flexible: a one-off audit, a fixed project, or ongoing fractional leadership.

What I can help with

Technical Leadership

Interim & fractional engineering leadership

Steady senior leadership when you need direction without a permanent hire, owning architecture, unblocking delivery, and setting the technical bar for the team.

  • Architecture ownership and pragmatic technical direction
  • Delivery planning, prioritisation, and de-risking
  • Standing in as interim lead / head of engineering
  • Coaching existing leads to grow into the role

Consultancy Audit

A clear-eyed review with an actionable report

A focused audit of your codebase, architecture, or delivery process, surfacing risks, quick wins, and a prioritised roadmap you can act on immediately.

  • Codebase, architecture, and dependency review
  • Performance, security, and scalability assessment
  • Delivery and process health-check
  • Written report with prioritised, costed recommendations

Software Processes & Practices

Ship more reliably, with less friction

Level up how your team builds and ships, Agile/Scrum that actually helps, dependable CI/CD, a sensible testing strategy, and developer experience people enjoy.

  • Agile/Scrum reform that fits your team
  • CI/CD pipelines and release automation
  • Testing strategy (TDD, the testing pyramid) and code quality tooling
  • Developer experience and onboarding improvements

Architecture & Performance Review

Pragmatic architecture that scales

Design and harden systems that scale without becoming fragile, from cloud-native data pipelines to high-traffic web platforms, with profiling to back the decisions.

  • System and data-flow architecture design
  • Scaling strategy for traffic and data growth
  • Performance profiling and optimisation
  • Cloud-agnostic infrastructure and IaC guidance

Mentoring & Team Enablement

Grow healthy, high-performing teams

Invest in your engineers, hands-on mentoring, hiring and interview frameworks that find the right people, and workshops on the topics your team needs most.

  • One-to-one mentoring for engineers and leads
  • Hiring frameworks and technical interview design
  • Workshops (design patterns, DI, architecture, testing)
  • Knowledge-sharing and team rituals that stick

Why work with me

  • Technical director of hospitality start-up, launched in 4 months and scaled to 700,000+ users across 500+ venues (Stack Leisure, the Malhotra and Vaulkhard Groups).
  • Have delivered for organisations of every size, start-ups like Eightfold.ai and Wordnerds.ai through to enterprises like Wayfair and Future Plc.
  • 10+ years as a software engineer, including 6+ years leading teams.
  • Led cloud-native analytics and data pipelines at Wordnerds.ai.
  • 100+ technical interviews and contributor to internal hiring frameworks.
  • Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) and Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I).

Let’s talk

Got a project, a team, or a problem you’d like a second opinion on? Book a free intro call and we’ll figure out whether I can help.