Architecture

I practice Architecture as Code - bridging the gap between executive strategy and deep, hands-on engineering and delivery.

Overview

An adaptable Solutions Architect who designs enterprise systems while actively stewarding engineering teams. My practice spans complex cloud and on-premises migrations, with robust operational governance driven through Git. By combining hands-on tool mastery across the spectrum - from development to data science, I pull together the necessary real-time decision support details to defend and assure programmes of work.

Governance

If left to my own devices, I take a very technical approach to solutions design artifacts using data science tools to dynamically maintain core documentation. By seamlessly converting complex data across Excel, Pandas, Sphinx, and Jupyter Notebooks, I deliver interactive, real-time presentations to diverse audiences. Whether rendering architecture blueprints through Confluence builders or maintaining source-of-truth repositories in Git, I ensure all stakeholders stay aligned through clear, automated communication.

Stakeholders

A confident public speaker and Open Source Special Interest Group (SIG) leader, I excel at driving industry collaboration and evaluating third-party technologies. I manage the end-to-end vendor lifecycle, from initial technical onboarding to coordinating complex design approvals with external partners. By balancing open-source flexibility with enterprise support models—such as HashiCorp or Grafana ecosystems—I seamlessly integrate external solutions into existing product mixes.

Frameworks

While fluent in foundational frameworks like TOGAF, I prefer to focus where it matters: inside the code. I translate abstract business, data, and application architectures into concrete, production-grade Infrastructure as Code (IaC) architectures. By anchoring enterprise design patterns directly within version-controlled repositories, I ensure that architectural principles are not merely documented on slides, but are actively enforced, deployed, and realised down to the metal.

Cloud

Translating abstract enterprise designs into production-grade infrastructure using AWS CloudFormation and CDK to deploy highly available, fault-tolerant topologies across multi-AZ environments. Concrete delivery includes provisioning core networking foundations via VPC, Transit Gateway, and Route 53, orchestrating scalable compute workloads using Auto Scaling Groups, ECS, and EKS, and configuring decoupling patterns with SQS, SNS, and EventBridge. Operational and cost baselines are actively enforced by implementing AWS Budgets, Cost Explorer, and Tagging Policies, while data architectures are anchored using S3 lifecycle policies, RDS multi-region deployments, and DynamoDB global tables to guarantee resilient enterprise execution.