CTO, Architect Product Leader, & Start-up Founder.

• Executive Leadership: Serve as the chief technical decision-maker for an industry-first subscription health platform, translating business goals into a scalable engineering roadmap.
• Technical Governance: Orchestrate the entire technical lifecycle, managing resource allocation and enforcing architectural standards for platform launch.

Notable Achievements: - Currently building out the MVP for launch in early 2026 with AI-powered booking optimization.

• AI Command Strategy: Designed the product roadmap for a modular AI command centre, identifying key market gaps in workflow automation and agentic orchestration.
• Ecosystem Development: Launched a two-sided plugin marketplace and public SDK, driving third-party developer engagement.

Skills: Lead Architect · AI Innovation

Notable Achievements: - Independently architected and deployed a fully functional AI platform MVP from concept to production. - Successfully executed go-to-market strategy with strong community adoption and developer engagement.

• Thought Leadership: Created the "Unified Agentic Software Development Lifecycle" (U-ASDLC), a commercial certification framework establishing new standards for AI-driven delivery.

Skills: Product Leadership · AI Education · Certification Framework · Product Strategy · Content Creation · Thought Leadership · Instructional Design

• Legacy Modernisation Strategy: Spearheaded the high-risk migration of core mobile infrastructure from Xamarin to .NET MAUI, extending the product lifecycle by 5+ years and ensuring long-term OS compatibility.
• Product Innovation (AI/IoT): Conceptualised and delivered "Sentinel," a security product integrating Deep Learning (Facial Recognition) and NFC technology, opening new revenue streams in the security sector.
• Operational Excellence: Overhauled a stagnant release pipeline by implementing Azure CI/CD workflows, reducing deployment friction and ensuring consistent delivery to App Stores.
• Stakeholder Management: Served as the primary bridge between business stakeholders and engineering, translating complex operational requirements into executable technical specifications.

Skills: Legacy Modernisation Strategy · • Product Innovation (AI/IoT) · Operational Excellence · Stakeholder Management

Notable Achievements: - Directed the technical roadmap for an enterprise mobile workforce management SaaS, focusing on legacy modernisation.

• Strategic Pivot: Guided the product evolution from a simple gratuity app to a global payment gateway, incorporating Blockchain/Web3 capabilities to capture new market segments.

Skills: Leadership · Strategic Pivot

• Technical Due Diligence: Conducted comprehensive architectural reviews of client systems, producing expert reports on system health, scalability risks, and upgrade paths.
• Strategic Advisory: Advised corporate leadership on architectural patterns to mitigate technical debt and align IT infrastructure with long-term business goals.

Skills: Solution Architecture · Technical Due Diligence · Strategic Advisory

Notable Achievements: - Provided high-level architectural advisory and due diligence services for corporate clients in the UK and South Africa..

• Project Turnaround: Diagnosed and resolved critical architectural bottlenecks in a client-facing application, eliminating frequent crashes and performance lags that were jeopardising the client relationship.
• Architectural Standardisation: Enforced MVVM design patterns and refactored legacy codebases to support complex features like NFC integration and AI-driven beauty recommendations.

Skills: Project Turnaround · Architectural Standardisation

Notable Achievements: - Recruited to rescue a failing mobile initiative for a client in the beauty industry (IIAA).

• Enterprise Architecture: Served as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for cloud-based insurance solutions (Sanlam), designing scalable architectures for high-volume booking systems.
• DevOps Transformation: Engineered Azure DevOps pipelines using YAML, automating build processes that significantly reduced manual deployment errors and increased release velocity.

Skills: Enterprise Architecture · DevOps Transformation

Notable Achievements: - Led technical delivery and cloud architecture for major insurance and on-demand service clients.

• Took planned time off to start an events business and upskill in Angular, .NET Core and cloud technologies.

• Strategic Roadmapping: Oversaw the end-to-end product lifecycle for national logistics applications, prioritising features based on regulatory constraints and operational impact.
• Performance Optimisation: Architected backend improvements that increased data transfer speeds by 200%, directly supporting rapid operational scaling.
• User Experience Impact: Delivered a comprehensive UX overhaul that resulted in a 70% increase in application adoption and usage.
• Vendor Management: Directed external vendors in the complex porting of legacy Windows Mobile applications to modern platforms, ensuring delivery within scope and budget.

Skills: Strategic Roadmapping · Performance Optimisation · User Experience Impact · Vendor Management

Notable Achievements: - Managed the product roadmap and technical execution for national courier applications.