Senior AI Engineer

• Agentic builds: semi- and fully-autonomous builds; multi-server streaming service, DeFi notary service, mobile apps, ebook generation pipeline; using automated PR processes, cross agent reviews, custom skills (plan, design, build, test, review, post-mortem, doc)
• RAG pipelines: publishing company book data & observability data; using embedding generation, vector storage, retrieval logic for assistant responses in live telemetry, log data ingestion.
• Technologies: Claude Code, Codex, Cowork, NodeJS, Typescript, AWS, Azure, Rust, Python, FastAPI, C++, Java, NextJS, React, React Native, Llama, Mistral, PyTorch, Gitea, InfluxDB, LanceDB

Senior AI & DevOps Engineer

• Using Claude Code & prompt engineering to develop one-click DevOps automations for multi-cloud, multi-region workload portability.
• Outcomes: 90% reduction in delivery time versus hand-coding.
• Audit, review, debugging, repair of client vibe-based SaaS systems.
• Technologies: Claude, ChatGPT, AWS, Azure, Python, Terraform, Ansible, GitHub, GitLab, Vercel, Netlify, Supabase, Kubernetes, Redis

Senior DevOps Engineer & Team Lead

• Designed and implemented global Azure architecture for a FinTech banking-compliance SaaS platform
• Implemented greenfield DevOps automation and tooling
• Designed and prototyped SSO/SAML solution for customers
• Developed testing tools for telephony/SIP infrastructure
• Provided technical strategy to leadership; trained and mentored development and operations teams and management of DevOps team
• Named technical contact for the platform’s largest banking client; brought into client meetings at their request to solve technical issues.
• Prompt-driven development of DevOps-related IaC tooling
• Technologies: ChatGPT, Copilot, Azure, AWS, Kafka, Mongo, ES, Python, Databricks, Azure DevOps, Terraform, Ansible, Asterisk
• Outcomes: fast, repeatable deploys with built-in release criteria; ISO 27001/SOC 2 compliant; MTTD < 10 min, MTTR < 60 min, MTTF > 6 months

Senior DevOps Engineer

• Implemented rigorous DevOps practices, increased automation, revamped GitHub pipelines to cut build times from 3-4 hours to < 1 hour, Packer for custom image builds, CI/CD pipeline to PXE-boot bare metals with custom images for cluster integration testing.

Senior DevOps / SRE

• Managed a Kubernetes-based e-commerce platform moving to AWS EKS

Senior Cloud Architect & Team Lead

• Led design and implementation of a global, multi-cloud self-service data platform for customers and internal teams, based on a customized Kubernetes.
• Enabled productized deployment model and efficient CI/CD processes for one-click deployments to a cloud and/or region of choice
• Developed tooling to improve financial visibility and support cloud usage billing to users.
• Technologies: AWS, Azure, OpenShift, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Helm, Kafka, Redis
• Outcomes: multi-cloud deployment design with fast deploy times; full Azure IaC; tooling for governance; cost usage for clients

Senior Systems Engineer

• Managed architecture & operations of a large global AWS estate (EC2, EMR/Spark, Databricks, Route53, Lambda, CF, Splunk, Redis) improving stability, observability, dashboards, alerting & achieving lower MTTD/MTTR.

Senior Enterprise Architect / Management Consultant

• Delivered architecture for IaaS/PaaS services (NSX, vSphere/vCenter, PXE, ScaleIO, NetApp, SSO/SAML), redesigned the CI/CD pipeline approach (Jenkins), and led real-time monitoring framework design with cross-cloud visibility
• Led feasibility studies on OpenShift, AWS, Azure and OpenStack; performed risk assessments on technology fit within functional project areas
• Reorganized the Swisscom architecture team to reduce churn with development teams
• Introduced a mid-level design specification practice that became a Swisscom standard
• Advised senior management on product roadmap and market positioning

Lead Architect & Backend Developer

• Designed and built a Java-based backend platform for a music-related social media startup: a multi-layered engine with Big Data & ML technologies for programmatic detection of various social and music trends. Technologies included Spring, AWS, Kafka, Storm, Cassandra, SolrCloud, Lucene, Hbase, Hadoop and YARN.

Senior Developer & Architect

• Revamped and improved a Big Data warehouse based on Hadoop and Hive for online radio station user and music data intelligence
• Designed a new corporate analytics data model and a more strategic approach to analytics within the context of business KPIs and goals
• Led development of a MapReduce, HBase and Storm-based approach for handling large volumes of user event information

CTO

• In charge of partner-facing engagements and technical solution development for customers

Technologies: Intershop, Hadoop, MapReduce, HDFS, Hive, Hama

CTO

• Product management oversight, development team leadership and technical alignment between customers, business and internal teams; hands-on backend development to fill knowledge gaps or deliver faster
• Hired and managed teams across two locations in Ireland
• Re-engineered a SaaS platform previously built by an offsite team to better meet business needs; worked with third-party providers to design and deploy a PCI-compliant, fully redundant hosting topology

Senior Solutions Architect

• Enterprise architect, team lead for SEPA (credit, debit, clearing) systems based on J2EE, WLS, SCA4J + solutions architect for related products
• Served as a technical pre-sales consultant for bank clients, resolving communications breakdowns between VocaLink and its clients, and architecting solutions to the technical issues they raised.
• Performed a technical evaluation for a potential acquisition by VocaLink

Owner, Consulting CTO

• Provided CTO services to two e-commerce startups who needed help in the initial stages of defining the technology portfolio, architecting products, engaging providers, hiring staff and developing IT plans and budgets
• For another e-commerce client: system to analyse eCommerce NLP search queries and evaluate relationship between results and purchase behaviour using Apache Mahout, Lucene, Solr
• Developed a multi-tenant SaaS eCommerce solution for a hosting provider

Enterprise Architect, Senior Developer, Team Lead

• Senior Java developer for BACS and SEPA services.
• Technologies: Mule, Hibernate, Spring, Maven, WebLogic, Oracle, SafeStore

Senior Java Developer, Enterprise Solutions Architect

• Worked on the next version of MuleSource's ESB product as an architect and developer, implementing registry capabilities, failover, and clustering features, as well as developing an Eclipse-based GUI IDE.
• Sent on-site to VocaLink in London as an enterprise architect/senior developer to help the client improve its implementation of Mule for its BACS system

Enterprise integration architect, Senior developer/team lead

• Implemented the Mule (now MuleSoft) ESB for a new movie download/viewing service (www.vongo.com). The system retrieved transactional data associated with financial, DRM and download activities, and funneled them into a data warehouse. The data was retrieved from both intranet and extranet sources in a variety of formats and connectivity mechanisms, and was designed to handle millions of transactions per day.