I am an experienced pre- and post-sales engineer and architect with a background spanning payments, treasury, recurring revenue, reconciliation, cross-border payouts, card issuance and AI. I work closely with financial services, insurance, banking and remittance organisations on digital transformation, technical storytelling, API design and delivery, while drawing on an earlier career in engineering leadership and education.
Expertise
- Payments, treasury & recurring revenue
- Financial services, banking & insurance
- Regulatory compliance & client funds
- API design, development & documentation
- Proofs of concept & solution design
- Cross-border money movement & remittance
- UX, UI & technical writing
- Leadership & coaching
Employment
Senior Solutions Architect, Stripe
— present · London, UK
Pre-sales engineer and architect working with large financial services and insurance brands including Monzo, Revolut, Starling, Hargreaves Lansdown, Cleo AI and Admiral on payment and digital transformation programmes, enabling tens of billions of dollars of pay-in volume. Builds tailored proofs of concept, systems diagrams, solution plans and integration guides, and develops internal generative AI tooling to support reusable bespoke assets.
Solutions Architect, Stripe
— · Melbourne, AU
Worked with Australia and New Zealand's largest platforms, including Xero and Ignition, on rapid go-to-market launches such as Tap to Pay on iPhone, while also supporting the digital transformation of Medecins Sans Frontieres' donation platform. Delivered PayTo on Stripe through cross-region collaboration and detailed technical documentation ahead of its self-serve release.
Integration Engineer, Stripe
— · London, UK
Post-sales engineer implementing and consulting on payments, recurring revenue, anti-fraud, AML and regulatory compliance for brands including Amazon Web Services, Catawiki and Hargreaves Lansdown. Helped pioneer a regulatory-friendly framework for client-funds segregation.
Engineering Manager, General Assembly
— · London, UK & New York, USA
Led a team of early career-to-staff engineers building out General Assembly's B2B business for clients including Walmart, combining people management with curriculum design and the development of a bespoke learning management system.
Software Engineer, General Assembly
— · London, UK & New York, USA
Designed and implemented core infrastructure for General Assembly's digital marketing efforts and internal learner administration tooling. Contributed to an early online IDE that validated learner code against automated acceptance and unit tests to provide feedback for remote learning.
Designer & Web Developer, Canonical Ltd.
— · London, UK
Collaborated with a project team to deliver enablement materials for the first Ubuntu-flavoured Humble Indie Bundle, promoting both gaming on Linux and adoption of the Ubuntu Software Centre.
Web Designer, Erskine Design
— · Nottingham, UK
Worked across user interface design and front-end development while extending into the full stack with Django, Heroku deployments and user acceptance testing. Delivered work for clients including Frieze, Derby County Council and the World Skills Fair.
Education
BA Web Design (Hons), Computer Science, University of Lincoln
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