Technical Review & Direction
Independent review of your architecture, codebase and platform, identifying technical risk and turning findings into clear priorities and next steps.
Technical direction for software teams
I help teams make better decisions about architecture, platforms, delivery and hiring - through fixed-scope reviews and ongoing advice.
Projects
Projects
Ways I can help
Independent technical advice
Engineering & Delivery Review
Review how product and engineering work together, with practical recommendations to reduce friction and improve execution.
Technical Hiring Review
Review technical hiring and assessment processes, helping teams evaluate candidates fairly and make better hiring decisions.
When I Can Help
Gain outside perspective
Technical direction when you need it
You need experienced technical direction without the commitment of a full-time hire.
Delivery has slowed down
Things feel harder than they should, and you want an outside view on why.
Hiring the right people
You're growing a team and want help defining the roles, assessing candidates fairly and avoiding a costly wrong hire.
Case Studies
How I’ve helped teams
Property-tech startup
Technical direction from idea to funded product
Challenge
An early-stage business needed to turn loosely defined product ideas into software it could sell and raise investment on
Solution
Set the architecture and built the first versions of the core products
Outcome
Products used by major property developers, with the technical foundations in place through private investment rounds
International travel platform
Migration & Redesign at Scale
Challenge
A legacy CMS was constraining publishing across a multilingual, high-traffic platform
Solution
Replaced the legacy CMS, integrating new content models and APIs with a redesigned homepage
Outcome
Contributed to a ~10% engagement uplift across the highest-traffic customer journeys, with simpler publishing for editors
Global education platform
Search & Discovery at Scale
Challenge
Limited multi-parameter search made it difficult for users to discover relevant content and complete registration journeys
Solution
Helped deliver Elasticsearch-powered search across 150+ institutions on a headless platform
Outcome
User registrations surpassed multi-year projections shortly after launch
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