Technical practice, grounded in eighteen years of shipping.

After two decades in the tech industry, spanning the UK, Canada, and global remote teams, I'm taking what I've learned and applying it to people's ideas and problems.

A practitioner's perspective.

My career began in the UK after graduating with Master's in Computer Science from the University of Bristol. My career started in video games working as a developer support engineer on the PlayStation SDK. Through this work, I learned exactly where systems fail their users. This proximity to the work led me into product management, not as a move away from engineering, but as a way to better architect the roadmap.

Since then, I have stayed close to the tools while leading teams at scale:

• Scale-up Leadership: As the senior product lead at an early-stage startup for identity verification, I grew the team and product through its formative years toward a $400M acquisition.
• Public Service: I joined the Ontario Digital Service during the COVID-19 pandemic, navigating high-stakes technical and privacy constraints, delivering apps and services to help keep people safe.
• Global Product: I've held director and staff-level roles at major privacy-tech companies with hundreds of millions of users, delivering engineering, design and product excellence.

How I work.

I treat every project like a site survey, assessing the existing terrain before recommending a path forward.

• Focus on Constraints: We start with your business reality and technical limitations. Focusing on the problems helps keep "solutioneering" at bay.
• Functional Increments: Small, high-fidelity deployments provide immediate feedback, reduce architectural risk and deliver compounding benefits sooner.
• Capability Building: I work alongside your team to ensure they understand the how and the why, leaving your organization stronger and more self-sufficient.
• Objective Clarity: I speak plainly about trade-offs, technical debt, and uncertainty. My role is to reduce noise, not add to it.