Hands-on engineering manager with 25 years of experience leading and growing high-performing software teams. I currently manage a platform engineering team (junior to staff level) at a high-growth hospitality SaaS company, owning team delivery, the roadmap, hiring, coaching and day-to-day execution. Strong technical foundation in C#, .NET, Azure, event-driven microservices and AI-native engineering practices, which keeps me close to the work and trusted by my engineers.
A few moments that show how I think about cost, risk and the long-term health of a platform.
I redesigned the internal developer platform with AI agents as first-class consumers: machine-readable catalogues and contracts, guardrailed provisioning patterns with Claude Code and MCP, and internal skills now used across the organisation.
Led stored-procedure enablement that improved query performance by over 75% in early adopters, and rolled out R&D-wide engineering guardrails that raised the craft bar across every team.
In a single review period: a 3-year Microsoft reservation (around €1M saved), a central database downscale (€120K/year), and an eventing migration from Kafka to Azure Event Hubs that swapped an uncapped €300K cost for a hard-capped €50K.
When CPU hit the 128-core ceiling of Microsoft's largest tier and threatened a platform-wide outage, I led the response with the Chief Architect, coordinated staff engineers across the business and brought the database back to 80 cores, extending its operational life.
Deep in the Microsoft and Azure ecosystem, with a strong pull toward event-driven systems and AI-native engineering.
These have held steady across every team I have run.
Clear context, straight feedback, and decisions people can actually follow. No jargon for the sake of it.
I give people genuine ownership of their work and back them when it counts. Autonomy is how good engineers stay.
When something is on fire, I coordinate, prioritise and keep people steady. I have led the response when a platform was hours from failing.
Value delivered every few weeks beats a big plan that never lands. I keep teams moving.
Diploma in Financial Planning
Microsoft Certified across Azure AI Fundamentals, Azure Developer, Azure Fundamentals, C#, ASP.NET, WCF, WPF, .NET Data Access and Microsoft SQL Server.
Open to Head of Engineering, Director of Engineering and Engineering Manager roles. Remote.