AI Technical Lead & Senior Software Engineer
I lead and build commercial AI systems, from agentic data platforms and RAG to real-time conversational software. Underneath that is sixteen years of architecture, full-stack delivery, security, performance, and platform engineering.
Agentic platforms, RAG, computer vision, and real-time voice systems taken from R&D into production.
Web, APIs, desktop, data, integration, and infrastructure across complete product lifecycles.
Technical direction, mentoring, and detailed implementation without stepping away from the code.
Systems designed for Azure, Kubernetes, and customer networks with real security and operational constraints.
Selected work
2023–present
DataQI lets organisations use an AI agent across documents, databases, and connected tools, with a choice of cloud-hosted or fully on-premises deployment.
Senior Engineer — Technical Lead for DataQI
Feb 2023–present
Turning open questions into working systems across computer vision, live video analysis, predictive modelling, IoT data, OCR, and the early foundations of enterprise RAG.
Senior Engineer — Lead Developer in Razor's AI team
2023–2024
A real-time phone system that streamed speech recognition, LLM orchestration, and speech synthesis while handling pauses, interruptions, and structured information gathering.
Senior Engineer — Technical Lead
2018–2021
A modular ASP.NET Core platform that made secure access, auditability, and compliance the default route for replacing a large legacy application estate.
Senior Software Engineer — platform architect and lead developer
2017–2021
A real-time order display and signature platform deployed across more than 5,000 locations and over ten Saint-Gobain brands.
Senior Software Engineer — Technical Lead
2013–2016
A greenfield learning platform combining ambitious browser-based authoring, standards-based course delivery, PDF generation, and independently designed distributed load testing.
Software Developer → Architecture Owner
2020–present
A strongly typed modular CMS and application engine, manually built during furlough and later transformed through an inspectable Codex-assisted engineering programme.
Creator and lead developer
2017–present
A playable polyphonic browser synthesiser, rebuilt from a preserved 2017 Angular/Web Audio project into a typed, accessible React application through a Codex-assisted modernisation.
Creator and developer
2022–present
Paired C++20 and Rust libraries and command-line tools that turn degree-era audio programming into tested, cross-platform systems work.
Creator and developer
2026–present
A practical progression from a Python Flatpak utility, through C and GTK internals, to a security-conscious Rust application designed for the Xfce desktop.
Creator and developer
Production AI
I’ve taken AI products from early proof of concept through technical design, production deployment, and ongoing development. That includes retrieval and orchestration across documents, databases, and external tools, alongside applied computer vision, OCR, prediction, and voice systems.
The wider engineering work matters just as much: secure modular platforms, high-volume distributed systems, difficult performance problems, cloud and on-premises delivery, and software that remains maintainable after the demo. I have strong technology preferences, but I choose tools for the system in front of me and actively enjoy work that demands a new language or platform.
AI-assisted development is part of how I work, but it is not a substitute for judgement. I use it inside a disciplined process of specification, review, testing, and verification.
01
Orchestration, tool routing, guardrails, and interfaces that help people work across complex enterprise information.
02
Document, database, file-store, and MCP connections designed around scale, relevance, security, and deployment constraints.
03
Conversational voice systems, computer vision, OCR, classification, detection, prediction, and practical R&D.
Engineering foundation
Technical direction, system design, mentoring, and clear ownership from the first proof of concept through production support.
C# and .NET are my first choice for long-lived web and REST API platforms; I also deliver in Python, TypeScript and JavaScript, Java and Spring, C++, C, and Rust. Database work spans SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, and SQLite.
Secure modular platforms, distributed systems, observability, load engineering, cloud services, containers, and on-premises estates.
AI-assisted delivery
At Razor, I have been part of a substantial, practitioner-led AI transformation in how software is delivered. A high-trust culture let engineers choose effective tools, experiment, share what worked, and make AI-assisted engineering part of normal delivery. I use it across specification, implementation, automated testing, local code review, independent pull-request review, repository-wide analysis, and maintenance.
The quality gain matters as much as speed. Cheap, repeatable inspection makes it practical to test far more of an application and have separate agents challenge the same change from different directions. In recent work, that has meant broad test coverage and very few defects subsequently raised by QA.
Turn an ambiguous problem into explicit constraints, decisions, and an inspectable specification.
Use the right mix of hands-on engineering and AI assistance to move quickly without surrendering control.
Use local review, independent pull-request review, and repository-wide scans to challenge architecture, implementation, and assumptions.
Generate and run tests across application layers, inspect behaviour, and treat generated code as work to own rather than output to trust.
Experience
Led technical design and hands-on delivery across commercial agentic AI products and applied AI research, while supporting engineers and delivering customer systems.
Built distributed in-store software and a security-led .NET platform for replacing a large estate of legacy business applications.
Architected and delivered cloud-connected ASP.NET Core and React applications across the Azure platform.
Progressed into architecture ownership while modernising and performance-engineering high-traffic learning platforms.
Built deployment and approval tooling while managing complex test environments for healthcare software.
Beyond work
I studied Music Technology and Audio Systems, have recorded and released music for more than 25 years, and still build audio software in C++, Rust, React, and the browser. That work keeps engineering tangible: timing, signal flow, performance, and interface decisions are immediately audible.
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I’m interested in permanent, remote-first roles with UK companies.
Huddersfield, West Yorkshire · open to suitable hybrid roles around Huddersfield, Leeds, and Bradford.
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