Your team, delivering with confidence. shipping what matters. making better decisions. using AI effectively. meeting business outcomes. running with momentum. kicking goals. supporting the strategy.
I work as a fractional CTO, embedded in your team rather than reporting on it from outside. Twenty years building and leading engineering teams, across financial services, mining, healthcare, retail, broadcasting, gaming and government. Based in Perth, working remotely worldwide. Every engagement is shaped around what you actually need, so it starts with a conversation. Get in touch.
How I help
AI Strategy & Applied Intelligence
Most teams know AI matters. Far fewer can say which of their problems it actually solves. That is where I start. The demo is the easy part; production takes more: model selection, safety and guardrails, evaluation, bias, cost per query, and monitoring output quality to ensure consistency.
Technical Strategy
Architecture, technology choices and delivery approach, chosen to fit the business strategy rather than the trade press. I bring the outside view; the calls stay yours. My job is that you make them knowing the cost, and that the reasoning is written down so it outlives whoever made it.
Leadership, Teams & Hiring
I coach engineering leaders. Team shape affects how and what they ship. Hiring loops get rebuilt to test the work rather than interview technique, and calibrated so the bar does not move between panels.
Building, Making, Doing
I ship. Requirements, architecture, code, tests, monitoring, the lot. When the work needs doing I am in the codebase and in the stand-up. I uplift legacy code, migrate to greener fields, and implement a structured well-reasoned future for the codebase. Documentation, pairing, and sharing, so the knowledge stays in your team.
Engineering leadership that compounds.
My background spans cloud architecture, platform engineering, distributed systems, DevOps, high-availability infrastructure, and applied AI, from LLMs and foundation models through to AI-native product design. I've scaled teams and technology from startup to enterprise across financial services, mining and resources, healthcare, retail, broadcasting, gaming, government, and early-stage startups, and I've seen what separates organisations that ship from organisations that stall.
I work as a fractional CTO and strategic partner to your leadership, embedded in the work rather than observing it. I help engineering organisations find what is actually slowing them down, make the structural and cultural changes that remove it, and leave the capability behind. The measure is whether the next quarter is better than this one without me in the room.
Originally from Edinburgh, I spent over a decade building software and leading teams in London before settling in Perth, Western Australia, where I'm happily based and available for remote and on-site engagements worldwide.