Proof · Skills & track record

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A skills list is a claim. This is the evidence — problem, approach, outcome. And one fact no résumé captures: single-handed, I've built what most companies need whole teams, years and funding to attempt.

The receipts

69 screens from 14 of the 24 products. No mockups and no AI renders — every one is the live product, photographed where it runs. Pick any tile and go and look at the thing itself.

The whole stack of a person

Storytelling & Speaking

I make silicon-to-cortex complexity land with a board, an investor or a room — in plain language, in one sitting. Every keynote is bespoke: curated for that audience and topic, never recycled, with original material built for the room.

Management & Leadership

Led 30+ delivery teams and a $100M programme; hired, mentored and shipped under real deadlines, in regulated industries, with real consequences.

Technical Ability

Hands-on from the kernel up — SILO.RED alone is 630,000 lines of code plus 150,000 of documentation; Rust, eBPF, 19-microservice platforms. Senior, and still writing the code, not just the slides.

Maturity

Desert Storm at twenty, boardrooms at fifty. I know when to push, when to wait, and how to stay calm when it is expensive not to.

Also Public speaker & keynotes Mentor Boardroom & CxO communication Judgement under pressure Resilience

Skills at a glance

Architecture & Delivery

Solution / Enterprise / Chief ArchitectureMicroservicesEvent-driven systemsDistributed systemsDomain-driven designTOGAF

Cloud & DevOps

AWSAzureGCPKubernetes · EKS / AKS / GKETerraformDockerCI/CDGitOps

AI & ML

LLMs & agentic AIMCP serversPrompt & anti-hallucination designPhysics-informed NNsVoice (Whisper)Multi-LLM routing

Security & Compliance

Kernel / eBPF runtime securityTPM-bound identityThreat & fraud detectionSOC 2ISO 27001NISTPCI DSSGDPR

Languages & Data

Python / FastAPITypeScript / NodeRustSQLPostgreSQLRedis

Domains

Banking & paymentsDefence & governmentMarTech / AdTechFintechEnterprise infrastructure

The proof

Problem → approach → outcome.

AnPost Money — national payments platform

Chief Architect · IFX International (Ireland’s national postal bank) · 2016–2018

Problem

A national financial-services arm needed a modern, secure, full-stack payments platform — high-volume, heavily regulated, with no margin for error.

Approach

As Chief Architect I designed it end to end — a full-stack Kubernetes payments platform and gateway across microservices, integration, security, settlement and regulatory compliance.

Outcome

Shipped at national scale — built for circa €30M, and sold in 2022 for €168M.

Payments architectureKubernetesRegulated systemsSecurityLeadership

Swiss-bank modernisation

Director, Technology & Solution Architecture · Cognizant · 2018–2021

Problem

A major Swiss bank needed cloud and digital transformation across a complex legacy estate, on a programme where delivery risk was real.

Approach

I led a $100M programme and 30+ delivery teams — architectural blueprints, cloud target-state, integration patterns, and the governance to land them.

Outcome

Delivered the transformation with material client cost savings.

Enterprise architectureProgramme leadershipCloud strategyStakeholder management

SILO.RED — runtime security and governance for AI agents

Founder & Architect · 2025–present

Problem

AI agents now run in production with valid credentials and direct access to critical systems. When one goes wrong, no single action looks like an attack, and the tools built for malware and network traffic miss it.

Approach

I architected and built it single-handed: 630,000 lines of code (largely Rust), endpoint clients for macOS, Linux and Windows with kernel-level anti-tamper, per-agent behavioural scoring, a graded response with human approval, and the Cortex control plane with governance reporting.

Outcome

A working product on all three platforms with a live, federating control plane, tested continuously by its own red team and a simulated estate. No detection rate is published until one has been measured and independently checked. The technical papers and a live demo are available on request.

Kernel / systems securityRustMachine learningeBPFThreat modelling

Bertha — Agency OS

Founder & Chief Product Architect · 2022–present · AWS-sponsored

Problem

Agencies need the reach and rigour of a full marketing organisation — without the headcount or the disconnected tool sprawl.

Approach

I built a 19-microservice Agency OS on a patent-filed stack — CRM mining, multi-LLM smart routing, creative generation, omnichannel placement and enterprise security — on a Terraform-managed AWS/EKS estate.

Outcome

On-brand campaigns 10× faster; multi-tenant and SOC 2-grade; three years of engineering, AWS-sponsored.

Platform architectureAI orchestrationCRM integrationMulti-tenancyAWS / EKS

Fraud & bad-actor detection

Associate Technical Architect · BAE Systems Applied Intelligence · 2015

Problem

Government and financial-services programmes needed to identify bad actors and fraud at scale, across regulated data.

Approach

I built client-profiling, predictive behavioural-analysis and fraud-detection pipelines on big-data and ML infrastructure, inside strict compliance constraints.

Outcome

Predictive bad-actor identification and fraud detection running on regulated infrastructure.

ML pipelinesBehavioural analysisBig dataRegulated / defence security

HP Superdome · Intel Itanium

Kernel & architecture · HP / Microsoft / Oracle joint venture · early 2000s

Problem

A joint venture set out to build one of the fastest computers on earth on the Itanium architecture — at the limits of operating-system and hardware design.

Approach

I worked on the kernel and architecture teams — operating-system and hardware-software co-design at the metal.

Outcome

HP Superdome — briefly the fastest computer in the world.

Kernel engineeringHardware / software co-designPerformanceSystems

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The whole stack of a person

Storytelling & Speaking

Management & Leadership

Technical Ability

Maturity

Skills at a glance

Architecture & Delivery

Cloud & DevOps

AI & ML

Security & Compliance

Languages & Data

Domains

Problem → approach → outcome.

AnPost Money — national payments platform

Swiss-bank modernisation

SILO.RED — runtime security and governance for AI agents

Bertha — Agency OS

Fraud & bad-actor detection

HP Superdome · Intel Itanium

That's the evidence.

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