Leadership evidence

Engineering Leadership Experience and Case Narratives

A company's user base, funding or listing belongs to the whole organisation. These pages separate what I decided and built from what the wider team achieved, so you can judge my contribution directly.

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Career record

May 2025 - March 2026

Principal AI Architect at Aveni

Architected the internal AI platform supporting enterprise banking deployments. Built Agent Assure and the evaluation, versioning and release controls around it.

AI AgentsFinancial ServicesRegulated AI

December 2023 - October 2024

AI Lead at Manufactured

Global supply-chain technology. Led AI engineering for document intelligence, lead management and workflow automation.

AI LeadSupply chainDocument AI

October 2022 - September 2023

Head of AI & Platform at Orangewood Labs

Collaborative robotics and edge AI. Built RobotGPT (approximately 10x faster robot programming), led ML, backend, edge and product engineers, and filed 30+ provisional patents.

RoboticsHead of AILLM

December 2021 - September 2022

Co-founder at Cryptuon Research (Boom Protocol)

Multi-chain API and MPC wallet platform. Secured more than $2.5M in investor commitments and commercial letters of intent.

Co-founderPrivacy

2017 - 2021 (consulting)

Principal Engineering Consultant at Nykaa

Consulting engagement. Architected social-commerce and AdTech products associated with approximately $10M in business value; guided 15+ engineers through architecture, delivery and platform migration.

E-commerceConsultingPlatform

2013-2016

Co-founder at Octo.ai

Open-source ML analytics platform.

Co-founderMLOpen Source

2008-2016

Co-founder at Kwippy

IM-integrated microblogging. Acquired.

Co-founderMicrobloggingAcquired

September 2019 - November 2021

AI & ML Lead at Hike

Operating AI/ML leadership role. Computer vision, NLP, recommendation, personalisation and trust-and-safety systems serving more than 100M users. 60+ provisional patent filings.

Consumer ML100M+ usersML leadership

Earlier career

Engineer at Kirusa

Voice messaging and missed-call platforms. 250M+ users.

VoiceTelecom250M+ users

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