Chief Technology Officer Europe · Global perspective
The person behind
the decisions.
I build technology organisations that can turn a strong idea into a dependable product and a durable platform. My work brings together engineering strategy, product ambition and the operating disciplines that support quality as an organisation grows.
I am particularly interested in the choices that compound: architecture, technical leadership, developer experience and the way teams learn from production. The CTO's contribution is to make those choices understandable to colleagues who are accountable for customers, capital and commercial outcomes.
I lead through a combination of technical depth and organisational clarity. I value small, capable teams, explicit trade-offs and a culture in which engineering judgement develops alongside the systems we build.
Open to Board appointments · Advisory roles · Speaking invitations
Languages / English · German · French
A leadership conviction
Engineering choices shape what a product can become. I invest in architecture, technical leadership and developer effectiveness so teams can move with confidence. Reliability and delivery speed are decisions to design together, with trade-offs made explicit.
- Users on the platform
- 40 M
- Across web, mobile and partner APIs
- Release frequency
- 6×
- With fewer production incidents
- Engineers led
- 1,200
- In five global engineering hubs
- Patents granted
- 23
- In payments and applied AI
Career chapters
2020 — Present 01
Chief Technology Officer
Aldermoor Group
Leading technology strategy, platform direction and engineering capability. Connecting product ambition with architecture choices, reliability expectations and the technical leadership needed to scale delivery.
2016 — 2020 02
Vice President, Engineering
Fairhaven Holdings
Built engineering teams and delivery practices across product and platform work. Developed technical leaders, clarified ownership and improved how teams evaluated design choices and operational feedback.
2013 — 2018 03
VP Engineering, Platforms
Lumen Payments
Rebuilt the payments platform for real-time scale and grew the engineering organisation from 80 to 600.
2007 — 2013 04
Principal Engineer
Kestrel Systems
Designed distributed systems used by national exchanges, and learned that reliability is a product feature.
Board & advisory record
Current appointments
Kestrel Systems
Non-Executive Director
Technology & Innovation (Chair)
2023 — Present
The Open Standards Alliance
Technical Steering Committee
AI Safety Working Group
2021 — Present
Education & credentials
- PhD, Distributed Systems
- Eastgate Institute of Technology · 2006
- B.Tech, Computer Science
- Indian Institute of Technology · 2001
Recognition
Engineering Leader of the Year
The Technology Leaders Review · 2025
Responsible AI Pioneer
The Applied AI Forum · 2023
Books & papers
Engineering Trust: Building AI Systems People Can Rely On
Ashgrove Press · 2025
In conversation
The Technology Leaders Review / 2025
Shipping six times faster with fewer incidents
The Applied AI Forum / 2024
What responsible AI looks like in production
The Leadership Ledger podcast / 2024
Episode 131 — Platforms as strategy
Perspectives from colleagues
Builds platforms the business can bet on, and engineering teams people want to join.
Brought rigour and humanity to our AI decisions in equal measure.