I've been building software for over 25 years. I started as a developer, became a Director of Engineering, and co-founded a startup. Most of my work has been data and integrations: getting systems to talk to each other and keeping the data trustworthy as it moves between them. These days a lot of that is AI infrastructure, which turns out to be the same problem.
Flowcase, Tech Lead, Data & Integrations. I build the integrations and data tooling that unblock revenue, and get new customers onboarded faster.
Clue, Hired as a contract developer, grew to Director of Engineering. Introduced technical practices that let the team ship with confidence.
Peppy Health, Senior Engineer. I built technology to enable a team of practitioners to deliver care at scale in a high-compliance health-tech environment.
Digital music startup, Technical Co-founder. I built the platform from scratch: large-scale audio transcoding, media metadata, and working out licensing and distribution challenges.
CTVC / TrueTube, Lead Developer. I led development of the first online platform to win Channel of the Year at the BAFTA Children's Awards.
Kendraio Foundation, Research Consultant and Lead Developer. I contributed to three EU-funded, multi-stakeholder research programmes spanning P2P, decentralised, and blockchain technologies.
I care about whether people use what I build. My side projects have real users, and tools I've written are still running long after the contract ended. So are some of the practices I introduced in teams I've since left.
I build production AI tooling: agent architectures, integrations and developer tools. I treat it like any other production system, so it gets observability, guardrails and careful context management.
I use Rust in production where reliability matters.
I write about using AI well in software engineering at daz.is/blog. I also wrote the HDA guide to building web apps with Rust, Axum and HTMX, which works as context for AI coding agents too.
I run the Brighton Claude Code meetup.
I built Music Instinct, a synthesiser and digital music tools project, and Zero Waste Tickets, an event ticketing platform.
Based in Brighton, UK (London commutable) · Building on the web since the late 90s, contracting since 2007 · Contact me to discuss availability: cv@daz.is