Cyber-resilience platform for servers and endpoints, sold to organisations in scope of NIS2. Full technical ownership: architecture, security posture, regulatory alignment and delivery.
Migration of a legacy bare-metal architecture to AWS, including large-scale refactoring of Perl systems into Java, Python and C++.
Technical lead for on-premise development of Datto's flagship Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery platform - the company's highest-rated product and a core asset of a $6.2B acquisition.
Industrial IoT platform for energy optimisation in heavy industry and power generation - an OT environment with the constraints that come with it.
2006 - 2013: finance, telemetry and web systems
Role: Freelance Software Developer
Customer: Various clients
Tasks:
PROFILE
TECHNICAL FOCUS
Security architecture
Zero-trust design, applied and post-quantum cryptography (ML-KEM), TLS/mTLS, key handling, hardening, threat modelling, penetration testing
Resilience & recovery
Business continuity and disaster recovery, bare-metal recovery, backup architecture, incident response, high availability
Regulatory
NIS2, GDPR and DPA frameworks, ISO 27001 (in progress), defence certification and assurance regimes, ETSI standards work
OT & embedded
Industrial IoT, embedded systems, low-level drivers, device fleet management, industrial network protocols
Systems
C, C++, Rust, Go, kernel development, block storage, iSCSI/NBD, virtualisation, bare-metal clusters, Linux and Windows estates
Cloud & tooling
AWS, Azure, Oracle Cloud, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, Redis
Also
Java, Python, TypeScript, Node.js, distributed computing, big data pipelines
Cyber-resilience platform for servers and endpoints, sold to organisations in scope of NIS2. Full technical ownership: architecture, security posture, regulatory alignment and delivery.
Migration of a legacy bare-metal architecture to AWS, including large-scale refactoring of Perl systems into Java, Python and C++.
Technical lead for on-premise development of Datto's flagship Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery platform - the company's highest-rated product and a core asset of a $6.2B acquisition.
Industrial IoT platform for energy optimisation in heavy industry and power generation - an OT environment with the constraints that come with it.
2006 - 2013: finance, telemetry and web systems
Role: Freelance Software Developer
Customer: Various clients
Tasks:
PROFILE
TECHNICAL FOCUS
Security architecture
Zero-trust design, applied and post-quantum cryptography (ML-KEM), TLS/mTLS, key handling, hardening, threat modelling, penetration testing
Resilience & recovery
Business continuity and disaster recovery, bare-metal recovery, backup architecture, incident response, high availability
Regulatory
NIS2, GDPR and DPA frameworks, ISO 27001 (in progress), defence certification and assurance regimes, ETSI standards work
OT & embedded
Industrial IoT, embedded systems, low-level drivers, device fleet management, industrial network protocols
Systems
C, C++, Rust, Go, kernel development, block storage, iSCSI/NBD, virtualisation, bare-metal clusters, Linux and Windows estates
Cloud & tooling
AWS, Azure, Oracle Cloud, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, Redis
Also
Java, Python, TypeScript, Node.js, distributed computing, big data pipelines