Enrolled as a Principal Systems Architect for a trading startup charged with designing and implementing ultra-low latency trading platform using hybrid cloud between AWS and Equinix.

Assembled and led a top-tier team of Site Reliability and Backend Engineers, directly enhancing startup scalability and reliability by improving infrastructure management practices.Leading the development of an open-source IDP, significantly reducing infrastructure-related issues for clients, and enhancing their operational efficiency.My areas of expertise:Platform-as-a-Product - Thinking & CulturePaaS: Opinionated Platforms / Internal Developer Platforms - How to build, run, scale, provide paved roads and work with developer communitiesDeveloper Experience (DevX) - optimising DevX, building internal DevX capability and toolingOperating at scale: 80+ teams, 2,000+ people, thousands of microservices, millions of users, billions of requestsAuthorisation, Authentication and Identify-Verification - Integrating with third party IDPs, building or migrating away from internal IV capabilities, OAuth etc.Building Successful Engineering Orgs - High Trust, No Blame, Communities of Practice, YBIYRI, Holistic Security, Working With Agility

Engineered and executed a strategic platform migration, resulting in a 40% increase in deployment efficiency and a 25% reduction in operational costs by adopting Infrastructure as Code and GitOps principles.Implemented a comprehensive observability solution, improving system uptime by 99.9% and enabling real-time insights into system performance.Achieved zero downtime during platform updates and a 30% cost reduction through strategic resource optimization and process automation.

Working as a System Architecture, and Platform Engineering Contractor for a Venture Builder/Startup Studio.

Driving significant improvements in Developer Experience by creating an Integrated Developers Platform, reducing time-to-market for new features by up to 20%.Led a platform migration that improved system resilience and scalability, decreased infrastructure costs by 15%, and enhanced deployment speed and efficiency.

Spearheaded a trading backend migration to a Microsoft Active Directory Ecosystem on hybryid Cloud between AWS and Equinix, resulting in a 50% improvement in trading execution speed and a robust, low-latency network infrastructure.Transitioned CI/CD workflows from Jenkins to GitHub Actions, leading to a 30% increase in deploymentfrequency and a 20% reduction in deployment errors.

Oversaw the complete IT environment of the city’s public water service company, implementing upgrades and monitoring solutions that resulted in a 99.8% system uptime and significantly improved service reliability.