Distributed Systems Engineer · Tech Lead
I build distributed systems, AI-powered products and commerce platforms: from networking and identity to LLM pipelines and Shopify apps.
scrollChapter 01 · Origin
Most of my career has gone into the parts of a system people only notice when they break: how a request finds its way across the world, what happens when a server disappears, and how a service decides who you are and what you're allowed to do.
I've led teams and designs at large scale, and I still like being close to the code. Three ideas run through everything I build.
Chapter 02 · First light · Full Stack Developer
Before platforms and planet-scale networks, there were web pages: online shops, search optimisation, and the endless work of making pages load faster. It taught me the lesson I still use every day: users feel every millisecond, every layout shift, every image that arrives late.
Chapter 03 · Structure · Senior Software Engineer
I led a team building the shared foundations that many product teams stood on: a front-end framework in React, API services in Node.js, and the CI/CD pipelines on AWS that shipped them. Good platforms are invisible: teams move faster without ever thinking about what's underneath.
Chapter 04 · Protection · Senior Software Engineer
I led the design of authentication, authorization and account-lifecycle services for enterprise customers, in Java and Spring Boot on AWS. Identity is the front door of every product: it has to be effortless for the right people and impossible for everyone else, and access has to disappear the day someone leaves.
Chapter 05 · A connected world · Senior Software Engineer
Today I lead designs for high-traffic, globally distributed services: routing every request to the nearest healthy location, caching so the far side of the world feels local, and the observability that tells you what's happening before users do. I also mentor engineers and review designs across teams.
Chapter 06 · Under pressure
Everything fails eventually: machines, networks, whole data centres. The craft is deciding in advance what happens when they do. Health checks that notice quickly, traffic that shifts automatically, capacity that's already waiting, and alarms that wake the right person only when it matters.
Chapter 07 · New worlds
Beyond the systems above, I design and ship complete products end to end: architecture, code, infrastructure and the user experience.
Multi-tenant platforms that sit inside online stores and between them and the rest of the business. Checkout and pricing logic that runs at the edge of the platform, and integration services that keep storefronts, ERPs, payments and logistics in agreement: idempotent, retry-safe and observable, across dozens of connectors and 20+ languages.
Production pipelines that turn messy documents into structured, trustworthy data. Vision models extract the facts, personal data is redacted before anything leaves the system, confidence scoring sends only the uncertain cases to a human, and every user has hard cost limits. Plus tool-calling assistants that act, not just answer.
Software for the most sensitive records people have. Passkey sign-in, sharing scoped to exactly the right people, isolation enforced by the database itself rather than by application code, and offline-first apps that work the same on web, iOS and Android.
Real-time 3D in the browser: from a floor plan to a walk-through interior with parametric furniture and generated quotes, to the particle system you are scrolling through right now.
How everything above gets built: typed monorepos, strict CI gates, full test coverage, end-to-end tests, and tracing and alerting wired in from the first commit, so systems stay boring in production.
Chapter 08 · The elements
Chapter 09 · Signal
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