// engineering leader, health tech, telco and more
I build teams, platforms and products for companies large and small.
Currently SVP Engineering at Reliance Health. Open to full-time or fractional leadership roles, particularly in health tech and applied AI.
antenna: always on
stress gauge:
surprisingly calm
meet robot-basuro
// across the career so far
200
engineers in the largest team I’ve led
20,000
transactions a second at peak, on a platform I owned
1m+
patients reached with AI-assisted care
3
companies founded or co-founded
01 / work
What I’ve been doing
SVP Engineering, Reliance Health
Leading 35 engineers across Nigeria and Europe. Doubled platform throughput and halved response times while the user base doubled, and took availability from 97% to 99.7%.
Director of Engineering, Babylon Health
Led delivery on a 10-year AI partnership with the Government of Rwanda, adapting the AI Symptom Checker for a low-smartphone market and scaling it to over 1m consultations. Spoke alongside the Rwandan government and the World Economic Forum on AI and privacy policy.
CTO / Co-founder, Carter Labs
Built an innovative self-checkout system for smaller retailers.
CTO / Co-founder, Fixter
Created the platform for automotive maintenance and repair.
CEO / Founder, everreach (Telefónica)
Created to let small companies manage their inbound calls.
Earlier: Telefónica, Head of Future Communications Platforms and founding member of The Lab · BT LookSmart, European Technical Director · Encyclopaedia Britannica, Technical Director · Argos, Imaging Systems Manager
02 / how I help
Happiest at the whiteboard, not just the fire hose.
Full-time or fractional, as CTO or VP Engineering. I do my best work designing what comes next, and I’m handy in a crisis too.
Product and platform architecture
Taking AI from demo to production
Building and rebuilding engineering teams
Modernising legacy systems
Regulated health tech: GDPR, HIPAA, NDPA
Turnarounds, when it is on fire
03 / field notes
Lessons from the engine room
One cartoon a month, with what it actually taught me. First issue: October.
The dumbest mistakes
What flying, launch days and operating theatres taught me about checklists. Read the note →
cartoon in the works
It’s always the DB
Three hours, four theories, one war room.
cartoon in the works
The blameless postmortem
The best ones never end with a name.
04 / now
- Scaling the platform at Reliance Health
- Open to full-time and fractional conversations
- Relaunching this site, one robot at a time
05 / off the clock
When the laptop’s shut
- Road cycling, Tibidabo
- Bass guitar
- Flight and driving sims
- RimWorld, too many hours
- 70s electronica
- Taskmaster
- Brentford FC, CE Europa
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