Career Experience
25+ years of technology leadership across SaaS, regulated industries, and enterprise transformation.
- SaaS
Head of DevOps
May 2025 – Present
Global SaaS / Procurement Technology
- Leading Azure cloud-first transformation across the platform estate, rationalising legacy infrastructure.
- Delivered £1M annual savings through infrastructure optimisation and vendor renegotiation.
- Implemented New Relic observability across all production services, achieving 24/7 monitoring coverage.
- Deployed Cloudflare security layer — DDoS mitigation, WAF, and bot management at the edge.
- Decommissioning 2,000+ VMware servers as part of the cloud migration roadmap.
- Aviation SaaS
Head of Software Development
Sep 2022 – May 2025
Aviation SaaS / Post-Acquisition Integration
- Energy & Utilities
Head of Technical Services
Dec 2014 – Sep 2022
Energy / Smart Metering SaaS
- Financial Services
Service Delivery Manager
Aug 2007 – Dec 2014
Financial Services / Document Management
- Various
Earlier Roles
Pre-2007
Web Development / Application Support / IT Infrastructure
Skills & Technologies
Cloud Platforms
AzureAWSDockerKubernetesTerraform
Programming
.NETPHPJavaNode.jsPythonTypeScript
Security
ISO27001OWASPSAST/DASTCloudflareISO42001
Monitoring
DataDogNew RelicPrometheusGrafana
Delivery
JiraConfluenceAgileScrumKanbanTrunk-based dev