Technologist, founder and lifelong football fan.

I started building software in 1999, beginning with Java, and grew into architecture and solution design. As a freelance technical architect and digital consultant I worked with clients including British Airways, IBM and Deutsche Bank, and later led solutions as Head of Solutions at HMRC Digital.

Today I'm Head of Technology Strategy & AI in the SDLC at Equal Experts. I work with organisations on technology strategy that can respond to change rather than resist it, and on how AI is reshaping the way software is designed, built, tested and run.

I care about the craft as much as the strategy: evolvable architecture, APIs that never break their consumers, and teams that set ambitious goals and measure what matters.

Alongside that, I founded TeamMate, a platform for grassroots football clubs. It keeps me close to shipping real software to real users every week.

I studied Pharmacology at university. About the only lesson that stuck was that the best medicine is usually no medicine. Software won out, and I've never stopped learning since, these days mostly through audiobooks.

Football has been a passion for as long as I can remember. Now it's more watching, reading, talking about it and coaching than playing, plus the occasional over-ambitious spreadsheet that tries to predict the Premier League from expected goals.

I'm a dad, my sporting hero is Muhammad Ali, and I've always had a contrarian streak. I bought an Android phone in 2009 when my friends were all buying iPhones, and I go for the green in one when my playing partners lay up.