Fractional Architect forI help organisations get AI into production. From agent architecture and MLOps pipelines to the cloud platforms that run them — I embed with your team to design, build, and ship. No permanent hire, no ramp-up time. 25 years of delivery across banking, pharma, industrial, and enterprise SaaS.
Services
Fractional architecture and engineering leadership — from a few days of advisory to months of embedded delivery.
Design and build production agent infrastructure — multi-provider LLM orchestration, tool execution, conversation management, and enterprise governance.
Get models and agents into production with Kubeflow, Vertex AI, SageMaker, and AzureML. Training, serving, evaluation, and monitoring at scale.
Scalable, secure platforms on Azure, AWS, and GCP. Kubernetes-first with GitOps, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD built in.
Prompt evaluation frameworks, guardrails, and quality assurance for AI systems. Measure what matters before you ship.
End-to-end SaaS product delivery — multi-tenancy, billing, onboarding, and operational excellence at scale.
Build, mentor, and accelerate engineering teams. Global delivery experience across startups and enterprises.
Why fractional?
I build AI agent platforms from the ground up — LLM orchestration, tool execution, evaluation frameworks, and production governance. Not just plugging in an API.
25 years of hands-on delivery. Recent work includes a Kubernetes-native AI agent platform with multi-provider LLM support, prompt evaluation, and enterprise-grade session management.
I aim to make myself redundant. Your team gets stronger, not dependent. Pairing, mentoring, and documentation included.
Cloud Platforms
Azure Solutions Architect Expert · Azure DevOps Engineer Expert · Microsoft Certified Trainer
AKS · Azure AI · Service Fabric · Azure DevOps
AWS Certified Solutions Architect. Production platforms for Carrier, Endeavor, and AltaML.
EKS · SageMaker · Bedrock · Lambda · CloudFormation
Currently leading ML platform architecture on GCP at HSBC in a highly regulated environment.
Vertex AI · GKE · Workload Identity · VPC Service Controls
I've delivered solutions for some of the world's most recognised brands.
Thoughts on cloud architecture, DevOps, ML platforms, and engineering leadership.
AI agents will get you to dev-done at record speed — right up until you realise you're miles past the actual problem. 80% of projects still spend 80% of their time at 80% complete. Agents don't fix that. They just help you reach it sooner.
Your exec promised a customer that AI would 'just know' the answer to any question across every database in the org. It won't. AI is a model of reality — and there's always a gap. The question is whether you know what it is.
Too many architecture reviews are just debates about which vendor's service logo to put on the diagram. The real value of an architect is knowing when the menu is the wrong starting point.
We never really needed ten thousand DevOps engineers. The market's not dying — it's clearing out the noise. When the dust settles, the builders will still be here.
Fractional architecture and delivery leadership — from focused sprints to multi-month embedded engagements. Remote-first, based in Scotland, available worldwide.
Whether it's an agent platform, an ML pipeline, or the cloud infrastructure to run it all — bring in a fractional architect who's building this stuff every day. No recruitment, no ramp-up, no lock-in.
