Senior technical leadership, without the full-time hire.

Twenty years of software for the NHS, financial intelligence, government, energy, and businesses.

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Lead

Fractional CTO

  • ↳Technology strategy & roadmap
  • ↳Team building, hiring & mentoring
  • ↳Security, governance & compliance
  • ↳Board, investor & customer conversations
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Architect

Solutions architecture

  • ↳System & solution architecture
  • ↳Scalability & performance
  • ↳Integration & data design
  • ↳Technology selection
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Build

Development & delivery

  • ↳Web apps, APIs & cross-platform mobile
  • ↳Data & streaming pipelines, integrations
  • ↳Leading contractors & delivery teams
  • ↳Rescuing & finishing stalled builds
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Run

Secure infrastructure

  • ↳Infrastructure as code & CI/CD
  • ↳Secure cloud hosting: AWS, Azure, Cloudflare
  • ↳Networking, DNS, CDN & firewalls
  • ↳Monitoring, backups & compliance
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Apply

Applied AI

  • ↳Agentic systems & LLM pipelines
  • ↳Retrieval & document intelligence
  • ↳Evaluation, guardrails & compliance
  • ↳Agent-ready websites & applications
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Advise

Due diligence & advisory

  • ↳Codebase & architecture review
  • ↳Investment / acquisition due diligence
  • ↳Risk & security assessment
  • ↳An honest second opinion
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Financial platform on a mobile device
FinTech · 2023–

Beach Finance

CTO and CISO for a regulated savings and investments platform, owning the technical strategy, the architecture and the security posture the board answers for.

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Neural network of connected nodes
Risk intelligence · 2014–23

Document intelligence at scale

An NLP pipeline grading millions of documents a month, replacing five provider systems with one query.

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Electricity transmission towers
Public sector & enterprise · 2013–18

Mission-critical platforms

Five engagements for the NHS, government and energy, where the work was hosting, assurance and sign-off rather than the code.

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Browse the full experience library →Beach Finance · NHS · FCDO Services · Shell · Dept. for International Trade

Got something you'd like to talk through?

A short email is plenty. Tell me where you are and what you're wrestling with. I'll usually reply within a working day with one of three things: an honest yes, an honest no, or an honest question.