A senior engineer who ships

I am a senior software engineer in Swansea, Wales. I build complete products, the kind people actually log into, across mobile, web, API and data.

I started in August 2012 at Aareon, working on large-scale social-housing management software for the UK. I was a key contributor on the VB6 to VB.NET migration and then on the backend of the web-platform rewrite (Angular front end, .NET Core REST API, Entity Framework). After a short stint at Cardiff Metropolitan University building internal systems, I spent a year and a half at One Team Logic on safeguarding software used by schools and sports clubs, then four years at Curiosity Software in Oxford on enterprise test-data management. That is where the depth in C#, .NET and Angular comes from, alongside Java, and where I first led AI capabilities in a product. Roughly the first decade of my career was .NET and Java; the last few years have been TypeScript and React.

Since the middle of 2025 I have worked independently, on three things at once. At Knight Frank I took a contract as Lead Software Engineer and authored the architecture for an enterprise data platform, then led delivery on a small team (top contributor, not sole author; a colleague co-developed). At Recyclr I am a founding engineer, one of two engineers who built the whole product with a domain-expert CEO guiding it, and I own mobile, payments and the early architecture. And in between I build my own products, including a contractor finance tool I use to run my own company.

The way I work now is AI-native, but I am careful about what that means. I direct AI coding agents from written specs, in phases, and I own the architecture, the review and the correctness of every commit. The discipline is the same one I have relied on for years, only it matters more now: a loose spec no longer just slows you down, it gets you confidently wrong code faster. Being clear about what to build is the work. Separately, I build LLM features into products where they earn their place, and I keep that distinct from how I write code.

I am in Wales, so I work European hours and I am comfortable remote. I am open to senior full-stack roles and contracts where the problem is real and I would own delivery rather than wait on it. If that sounds like what you need, the work speaks better than I can here.