BEng (Hons), MBA (Tech Mgmt), CISSP
Data & AI · Strategy · Architecture · Scale
Gloucestershire, UK
About¶
I help enterprise and public sector teams turn ambitious data and AI goals into scalable, production-ready outcomes—leveraging open source, agentic AI, and deep domain expertise.
With 25+ years in IT—including 14 years in BI, data warehousing, NoSQL, Java development/architecture, Linux administration, and security, over 10 years in presales, and the most recent 11+ years in data engineering, data science, and AI—I bridge strategy and execution: shaping architectures, guiding technical direction, and delivering solutions aligned with business value.
Select Highlights¶
Built $xx million EMEA presales team from scratch · Grew technical presales organization from zero to 12 staff (2 managers, 10 ICs) at HPE, managing regional AI/Big Data portfolio
Published Author · Books on embeddings at scale, probability, matrix calculus, linear algebra
Open Source Projects · Hardware security guides (158 stars), ML recommender systems (99 stars), and educational resources
Community Contributions · Stack Overflow 24.9k reputation, 5.2M people reached, 14 years active member
Apache Committer · Open source contributor since 2013
Technical Leadership · 11+ years in data engineering, AI/ML; 10+ years in presales; enterprise + public sector
Experience¶
Recent roles and affiliations:
VAST Data · Data and AI Specialist · 2024–Present
Databricks · Data, ML, AI Technical Leader · 2022–2024
Hewlett Packard Enterprise · AI / Big Data Technical Leader · 2019–2022
IBM · Chief AI / Big Data Architect, Europe · 2014–2019
Fiserv (Monitise/Visa JV) · Solution Architect Lead · 2010–2014
Apache Software Foundation · Committer · 2013–Present