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I'm a founding engineer and technical architect with 25+ years of hands-on experience taking platforms from greenfield concept to award-winning production. I specialise in Laravel, AWS, and AI-driven product development, and I love building AI-native, real-time conversational platforms using LLMs and robust interaction models. I’m passionate about owning architecture, DevOps, and technical direction end-to-end, while embedding deeply within teams to deliver scalable, maintainable systems. I value long-term client partnerships and approach technical decisions as strategic product investments. Across roles I’ve driven architectural steering, security-first design, and next-generation AI pivots to automate complex research and customer experiences. I’m known for delivering from blank-page concepts to production-scale platforms, and for crafting teams and partnerships that sustain long-term success.…I'm a founding engineer and technical architect with 25+ years of hands-on experience taking platforms from greenfield concept to award-winning production. I specialise in Laravel, AWS, and AI-driven product development, and I love building AI-native, real-time conversational platforms using LLMs and robust interaction models. I’m passionate about owning architecture, DevOps, and technical direction end-to-end, while embedding deeply within teams to deliver scalable, maintainable systems. I value long-term client partnerships and approach technical decisions as strategic product investments. Across roles I’ve driven architectural steering, security-first design, and next-generation AI pivots to automate complex research and customer experiences. I’m known for delivering from blank-page concepts to production-scale platforms, and for crafting teams and partnerships that sustain long-term success.

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Full Stack Developer, AI Engineer, Cloud Developer, +1

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I'm a founding engineer and technical architect with 25+ years of hands-on experience taking platforms from greenfield concept to award-winning production. I specialise in Laravel, AWS, and AI-driven product development, and I love building AI-native, real-time conversational platforms using LLMs and robust interaction models. I’m passionate about owning architecture, DevOps, and technical direction end-to-end, while embedding deeply within teams to deliver scalable, maintainable systems. I value long-term client partnerships and approach technical decisions as strategic product investments. Across roles I’ve driven architectural steering, security-first design, and next-generation AI pivots to automate complex research and customer experiences. I’m known for delivering from blank-page concepts to production-scale platforms, and for crafting teams and partnerships that sustain long-term success.…I'm a founding engineer and technical architect with 25+ years of hands-on experience taking platforms from greenfield concept to award-winning production. I specialise in Laravel, AWS, and AI-driven product development, and I love building AI-native, real-time conversational platforms using LLMs and robust interaction models. I’m passionate about owning architecture, DevOps, and technical direction end-to-end, while embedding deeply within teams to deliver scalable, maintainable systems. I value long-term client partnerships and approach technical decisions as strategic product investments. Across roles I’ve driven architectural steering, security-first design, and next-generation AI pivots to automate complex research and customer experiences. I’m known for delivering from blank-page concepts to production-scale platforms, and for crafting teams and partnerships that sustain long-term success.

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I’m a founding engineer and technical architect with 25+ years of hands-on experience taking platforms from greenfield concept to award-winning production. I specialise in Laravel, AWS, and AI-driven product development, and I love building AI-native, real-time conversational platforms using LLMs and robust interaction models. I’m passionate about owning architecture, DevOps, and technical direction end-to-end, while embedding deeply within teams to deliver scalable, maintainable systems. I value long-term client partnerships and approach technical decisions as strategic product investments.

Across roles I’ve driven architectural steering, security-first design, and next-generation AI pivots to automate complex research and customer experiences. I’m known for delivering from blank-page concepts to production-scale platforms, and for crafting teams and partnerships that sustain long-term success.

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Work Experience

Lead Full-stack Developer, Founding Engineer (Contract) at STRAT7 Jigsaw

February 1, 2019 - Present

As technical architect, DevOps owner, and AI lead for an award-winning research platform, I shaped the long-term technical roadmap and owned security, stability and delivery. I turned a blank-page concept into a global enterprise production system, engineered high-availability AWS infrastructure and a Laravel/Vue backend to manage complex research workflows (surveys, polls, real-time discussion forums) at scale, and led end-to-end delivery. I pioneered Generative AI-driven analysis pipelines using Claude (Bedrock) and OpenAI, and designed Maya, a fully autonomous WhatsApp moderator that reduces manual setup by ~80%. I also enabled multi-modal data capture with AssemblyAI and WhatsApp to scale conversational research globally, leveraging Cursor and Claude Code to accelerate velocity and code quality.

Founding Engineer (Part-time) at Talk to Breezi Ltd

September 1, 2025 - Present

Architecting an AI-powered conversational platform for therapeutic-style conversations and guided user journeys. I designed a flexible, multi-provider LLM layer (OpenAI, Gemini, Bedrock) for context-aware conversations, implemented safety-focused systems, and built voice-to-session workflows with transcription and session structuring. I developed a conversation intelligence layer with summarisation, personality-aware responses, and configurable prompts to deliver empathetic, user-centric experiences.

Full-stack Developer (Contractor) at Uncharted Partners

November 1, 2018 - February 1, 2019

Engineering Lead for a fintech startup, accelerating a greenfield online insurance brokerage. I delivered secure RESTful APIs with Laravel, a high-performance Vue/Nuxt frontend, enterprise-grade authentication and secure data handling, and acted as a strategic technical partner to the founding team to drive rapid product iteration.

Full Stack Developer (Contractor) at Templar Executives Ltd

August 1, 2018 - June 1, 2023

Founding Engineer & Sole Developer for a greenfield maritime cybersecurity platform. I designed mission-critical architecture focused on cyber risk mitigation, launching it as a core component of a Singaporean Cyber Security Centre of Excellence. I provided long-term architectural stewardship, security audits, and ongoing technical direction with a focus on regulatory compliance and data integrity.

Full Stack Developer (Perm) at AngloInfo Ltd (Smartexpat.com)

January 1, 2018 - July 1, 2018

Scaled a global expat platform to serve over 2M monthly sessions and 4.5M page views, achieving a global Alexa rank of 44k within 90 days. Led legacy-to-Laravel migration, maintained uptime during multi-region DDoS events, and optimised AWS infrastructure to support worldwide traffic with sub-second response times.

Full Stack Developer (Contractor) at Vodafone Group plc

January 1, 2017 - December 1, 2017

Engineered an enterprise internal pricing and quotation platform with multi-currency, multi-language support and RBAC. Led security and compliance through independent penetration tests and audits, and built a high-performance Laravel/Vue.js engine to support complex product configurations and pricing across international markets, with a data-driven UI for internal procurement and sales teams.

Senior Front-end Developer (Perm) at Modulr Finance Ltd

January 1, 2016 - December 1, 2016

Early engineer on a high-growth API banking platform, delivering the core customer portal for multi-currency accounts, payments, and real-time reporting. Built secure, scalable interfaces for high-volume financial workflows and data integrity, collaborating closely with the engineering team to translate complex APIs into intuitive experiences.

UI Developer (Contractor) at Monitise Group Plc

January 1, 2012 - February 1, 2015

Collaborated with Visa to design and prototype fraud prevention and authentication systems (3D Secure). Delivered enterprise-grade mobile banking interfaces used by millions of customers and acted as a technical bridge translating financial and cryptographic requirements into user-friendly interfaces, driving R&D prototyping of fintech products.

Intranet UI Developer (Contractor) at BG Group plc

February 1, 2008 - January 1, 2012

Delivered large-scale intranet applications used by 25k+ employees globally. Provided technical leadership, established front-end best practices, and led end-to-end delivery across Agile and Waterfall environments, optimizing data-heavy applications for global performance with sub-second response times and high accessibility.