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Skills · The technical surface

What I work across — drawn from real work, not a checklist.

Six years of building, from a non-technical start. Nothing below is aspirational; it's the surface I've actually shipped on, for clients from small businesses to enterprise.

A / Capability mapEight domains, hands-on

Across the whole stack — and a few places past it.

01

AI & agentic systems

My deepest area. Building with large models the way most people will in a few years: orchestrating them, grounding them, and giving them tools to act.

LLM orchestration (Gemini · OpenAI · Claude)RAG pipelinesMCP — building & exposing tools to agentsAgentic workflowsPrompt engineeringVision-language modelsModel evals & benchmarkingLocal / open models (Ollama)
Proven on production document-AI platforms and my own GPU research.
02

Backend & APIs

The systems work: async services, durable workflows, and data layers that hold up under real traffic.

FastAPI (async Python)NestJS · Node.jsSQLAlchemyREST · WebSockets · Pub/SubTemporal (durable workflows)Redis
Proven on multi-tenant SaaS running in production.
03

Frontend & product

Interfaces people actually use, on web and mobile, built with the current generation of tooling.

React 19 · Next.jsTypeScriptTailwind · shadcn/uiReact Native · Expo (mobile)Data visualisation
Proven on web and mobile front-ends shipped to real users.
04

Native desktop

Signed, notarised macOS apps. The kind of thing companies put a whole team on.

Swift · SwiftUI (macOS)Code-signing & notarizationSparkle auto-updateGitHub OAuth device flow
Proven on my own signed, notarized apps — daily-driven.
05

Cloud & infrastructure

Cloud-independent by default: containerised, orchestrated, and hands-on across all three major clouds, on GPU hardware I pay for myself.

AWS · GCP · Azure (multi-cloud)DockerKubernetes (AKS) · HelmTerraform / IaCSelf-hosted CI (K8s runners + Mac Studio)GPU fleets (H100 · A100 · L40S)
Proven on production deployments and a self-funded compute fleet.
06

Data & pipelines

Moving and making sense of data at volume, the territory where the architecture matters more than the framework.

Terabyte-scale processingETL · BIStreaming concurrencyVector DBs (pgvector · Qdrant · Chroma)PostgreSQL · MongoDB · RedshiftScraping & automationMedia (FFmpeg · STT · TTS)
Proven on pipelines built to run at the scale of millions of items.
07

Observability & ops

Knowing what the system is doing and what it costs, and scaling it in the right direction.

Grafana · Prometheus · LokiMonitoring & alertingCost optimisationHorizontal & vertical scaling
Proven on systems run in production, day to day.
08

Practice & leadership

The part that isn't a library. Owning a problem from brief to shipped product, and bringing people and judgment with it.

Problem → architecture → ship ownershipLeading deliveryMentoring engineersResearch → benchmark → rebuildReading what a market actually buys
Proven on enterprise products and my own ventures.
B/ How I've workedThe same person, four modes

Alone or with a team — whatever the problem needs.

I've led teams, worked inside them, and shipped solo. Most often I'm brought in as a technical lead and senior architect, trusted to shape what gets built.

01 Way of working

Solo, end to end

Take an ambiguous brief and carry it to a shipped product alone: problem, architecture, build, ship.

02 Way of working

Embedded with teams

Drop into existing codebases and systems, pick them up quickly, and extend them without breaking what works.

03 Way of working

Leading delivery

Own the line and lead the people delivering it. Deciding what gets built, not only building it.

04 Way of working

As a founder

Built and ran my own ventures on my own capital, so I think in cost and outcome, not just code.

Some of this was for clients, some for enterprise products, some for my own companies. The throughline isn't a single stack. It's learning the one a problem needs, fast enough to ship on it.

Skills are the floor. What I've built with them is the point.

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