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Two decades of building, leading, and shipping across enterprise AI, cloud platforms, and high-performance engineering organisations. Here is where I go deep.
Building and leading engineering orgs from a handful of people to 200+ engineers across Engineering, Research, and QA. Organisational design, team topologies, hiring frameworks, career ladders, and the engineering culture that keeps attrition low and ownership high.
Establishing delivery workflows, sprint cadences, quality gates, and architectural review processes. Scaled Agile, cross-functional team leadership, and the discipline that lets teams ship reliably while headcount grows.
Thirteen years as a naval officer, including a 30-month warship command with a crew of 20. Decision making with incomplete information, responsibility for irreversible calls, and a leadership style balancing decisiveness with empathy.
Architecting enterprise-grade conversational AI for Fortune 500 contact centres, and leading the transition to agentic, AI-first systems that go beyond chatbots to context-aware, autonomous interactions at scale.
Driving the adoption of AI-assisted coding and autonomous deployment pipelines to compress the SDLC, raise quality, and rethink how enterprise software is built, deployed, and scaled with AI.
Shipping AI systems in production (LLMs, speech/ASR, RAG, and automation) under real constraints around reliability, latency, cost, and compliance, from problem framing and data strategy to model selection and lifecycle operations.
Redesigning cloud infrastructure for elastic scalability, containerised deployment across global locations, and tighter control over infrastructure cost, with security and compliance built in by design.
Hands-on full-stack experience across backend (Python, Java, PHP, MySQL, PostgreSQL) and frontend frameworks (React, AngularJS, EmberJS, and more), built from greenfield products to global platforms.
Owning web platform functions end to end: architecture, delivery roadmap, and technical strategy across on-premises and cloud, setting the standards that became the foundation for scalable platforms as companies grew.
Founded and ran HelloWorld PC, a boutique AI and software firm, with full P&L and executive ownership: strategy, go-to-market, hiring, pricing, client acquisition, and delivery execution.
Primary sales and pre-sales executive across enterprise discovery, solution architecture, commercial structuring, and contract negotiation, partnering directly with CEO, CAIO, CTO, and CIO stakeholders.
Founding-engineer experience taking organisations from zero to scale, defining hiring pipelines, engineering standards, and cross-border operating models, and translating advanced capabilities into measurable business value.