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Career Timeline
AI & Engineering Transformation Leader
// summary
Senior technology leader with 20+ years of experience across engineering leadership, platform architecture, and AI-driven transformation. Currently Head of Technology at Compare the Market, leading multiple engineering teams through an agent-first delivery transformation that has changed how the organisation builds software.
Completing a Level 7 (Masters-equivalent) AI and Data Science Apprenticeship alongside hands-on development of PicoPouch, a personal AI-agent-driven SaaS platform. Track record includes coordinating 300+ engineers across a regulated, zero-downtime platform release at one of the UK's largest comparison platforms.
Major
Cycle Reduction
partner pipeline
300+
Engineers Coordinated
zero-downtime release
60%
Effort Reduced
ML onboarding platform
Zero
Downtime
FCA regulatory release
// experience
Compare the Market
2020 – PresentHead of Technology
2022 – Present
- >Lead multiple engineering teams delivering partner platform strategy across several product verticals
- >Pioneered agent-first delivery across all teams, shifting engineers to architecture and verification roles while AI agents handle implementation
- >Coordinated 300+ engineers for a zero-downtime cross-platform regulatory release under FCA pressure. Introduced rehearsals, runbooks, and premortems that became standard practice
- >Reshaped engineering org from inverted seniority pyramid to sustainable talent pipeline using natural attrition, graduate investment, and agent-first tooling
- >Partnered with CCO, CGO, and Product Directors on strategic trade-offs, roadmap prioritisation, and commercial alignment
Senior Engineering Manager
2022
- >Managed engineering teams across Home and Car Insurance
- >Maintained uptime during the Energy market crisis while planning a full platform rebuild
Staff Engineer / Application Architect
2020 – 2022
- >Led architecture and design for large-scale products in Energy and Home Insurance
- >Designed and delivered an auto-fill product feature for Home Insurance that improved conversion
- >Introduced architectural patterns improving system resilience and foundations for data-driven decisioning
PicoPouch
Personal Project2024 – PresentAI Product Builder
2024 – Present
- >Designing and building an agent-driven SaaS platform for life admin and digital estate planning on GCP/Firebase
- >Six purpose-built AI agents handling data ingestion, bank statement processing, natural language search, and vault automation
- >Architected forwarding-based email system using SendGrid Inbound Parse with two-role collaboration model
Digital Illumination
2017 – 2020Technology Consultant
2017 – 2020
- >Independent technology consultant delivering solution architecture, Salesforce implementation, and platform modernisation
- >Clients across insurance, e-commerce, and IoT sectors
- >Salesforce Certified Advanced Administrator
Barbon Insurance Group
Contract2017 – 2020Head of Development / Solution Architect
2017 – 2020
- >Led architecture and build of a microservices-based referencing and insurance platform
- >Introduced CI/CD, API-driven integrations, and modern DevOps practices
Earlier Career
Modernised legacy systems, developed bespoke CRM, migrated to Magento 2
Architected B2B billing platform integrating Salesforce, Sage, and telecom APIs
Built e-commerce platform that doubled turnover to £4M
Web agency. BMW, MINI, 3M, University of Oxford. Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2007
// skills
AI & Agents
Leadership
Platforms
Engineering
Domain
Transformation
// education
Level 7 AI & Data Science Apprenticeship
Cambridge Spark
Masters-equivalent, completing
Oxford Algorithmic Trading Programme
Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
BSc Computer Science
University of Nottingham
// certifications
Cambridge Spark
Salesforce
// community
- >Technical consultancy to Florence Nightingale Foundation supporting leadership programmes for nurses and midwives
- >Mentored a Birmingham University student for 6 months on commercial considerations in large technology projects
- >Presented seminars on technology and careers at Central College Nottingham and Nottingham High School