Independent consultant helping businesses on the coast utilise technology safely and only if it adds material ROI to your operations; if it won't improve your day-to-day, I'll let you know.
Five examples explained in the way I'd tell a mate. What the situation was, what we did, and what came of it. Plain English.
The situation →240 stores being stocked on gut feel and one heroic, terrifying spreadsheet.
What we did →Built an ML forecasting pipeline end to end — data audit to production — then taught the team to run it without me.
The situation →A ten-year-old monolith slowing everything to a crawl, and a roadmap that couldn't afford to pause.
What we did →Carved it into services release by release — no code freeze, no big bang, no missed windows.
The situation →A logistics startup with funding, ambition, and not a single engineer.
What we did →Stepped in as fractional CTO — hired the founding team, set the architecture, shipped to paying customers ahead of plan.
The situation →An AWS bill growing faster than revenue, and nobody quite sure why.
What we did →Re-architected the hungriest workloads, right-sized the rest, and left behind a FinOps habit the team still runs.
The situation →120 capable engineers organised in a way that guaranteed bottlenecks.
What we did →Reshaped squads around value streams, stood up platform teams, and coached the leads through the change.
Engagements typically run 6 weeks to 6 months. I work hands-on — in the codebase, around the kitchen table, wherever the problem lives.
An honest assessment of where technology will actually create value for your business; whether it be in the form of time saved, or putting your data to work, we'll only go after what moves the needle.
→There is likely a little voice, maybe even a loud one, that knows your business would run more smoothly with a few upgrades. It could be as simple as how customers reach you, or it could be more complex like automated invoicing; whatever it is, we can work on a solution together.
→Senior technical leadership without the full-time price tag. Architecture decisions, hiring, vendor negotiation, and board-level reporting.
→For projects that are late, over budget, or quietly off the rails. Rapid diagnosis, hard conversations, and a credible path back to shipping.
→Org structures, ways of working, and engineering culture that make good delivery the default rather than a heroic exception.
→Over twelve years of in-house and consultancy roles means I have had the pleasure of working with some of the toughest and most demanding businesses in the world. From tech, to energy, to finance, there is no project too big or too small.
…and plenty more besides. Big-firm experience — none of the big-firm invoice.
One to two weeks embedded with your team. I read the code, sit in the meetings, and find out what's really going on — not what the slide deck says.
A short, sharp set of recommendations with trade-offs made explicit. You'll know exactly what I'd do, what it costs, and what happens if you don't.
I stay to execute — hands-on, alongside your team, with success measured in shipped outcomes rather than billable hours.
I price by engagement, not by the hour — you'll know the number before we start, and there are no surprise invoices. Short diagnostics sit at the affordable end; bigger transformations get scoped together, openly. The budget options on the contact form will give you a feel for the ranges.
I'm based on the coast and love working locally — but a good half of my work is remote for Sydney, interstate and overseas clients. Twelve years of big-city delivery habits travel just fine over a video call.
Usually with a short, paid diagnostic: one or two weeks embedded with your team, reading the code and sitting in the meetings. You get honest findings and a plan you can run with or without me. No lock-in, no land-and-expand games.
Hands-on. I write code, build the dashboards, sit in the standups, and negotiate with the vendors. The deck-and-disappear model is exactly what I left the big firms to avoid.
Not at all — I'm usually the bridge, not the replacement. I help you ask your existing providers better questions, hold their work to a standard, and make them more useful. Good vendors tend to like having me around; the other kind tell on themselves.
Everything from owner-operators to enterprises with 120-strong engineering teams. The sweet spot: businesses big enough to feel real technology pain, small enough to actually move once we've found it.
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