Engineering Director for investment platforms,
product engineering,
and safe AI delivery
Asset Management Platforms • Product Engineering • DevSecOps • Agentic Engineering
I lead regulated software delivery across Asset Management investment platforms, combining hands-on technical judgment with product engineering, global team leadership, and resilient operating models. My current remit spans multi-asset portfolio management systems at JPMorgan Chase, supporting $438B+ in assets under management across global, high-volume platforms.
Currently writing The Agentic Playbook - a series on AI-assisted development and the future of engineering.
Leadership Snapshot
How I lead engineering
at scale
I lead from within the work, combining active technical contribution with product judgment, clear standards, strong teams, and reliable delivery at scale.
Pillars
The areas I focus on as an engineering leader.
Executive outcomes
Measurable results across reliability, speed, and quality.
99.42%
SLA uptime by investing in chaos engineering and instant rollback
89%
Of 210 engineers trained through AI-assisted delivery workshops
62%
AI-assisted sprint penetration reached while tracking quality metrics
Evidence
What this looks like in practice.
- •Stay close to delivery through coding, pull request reviews, solution design, and architecture decisions on production systems.
- •Relocated 15 engineers and their families during a sanctions-constrained acquisition, keeping both people safe and delivery on track.
- •Ran 6 AI workshops, trained 89% of the team, and reached 62% AI-assisted sprint penetration, tracking quality alongside productivity.
- •Introduced a weekend dev-environment lightswitch policy that cut infrastructure costs without affecting resilience.
- •Embedded chaos engineering, contract testing, and performance testing into our DevSecOps pipeline to catch issues before they reached production.
- •Reduced mean time to recovery by streamlining CI/CD and adding instant rollback through Spinnaker and Kubernetes.
Board-level insight
How I communicate engineering to the business.
- •Built strategic roadmaps with resilience metrics and regulatory context to align executives on priorities, risk, and technical direction.
- •Set engineering standards and ways of working across distributed teams, improving consistency in delivery, review, and decision-making.
- •Added risk controls to CI/CD and trained teams on contract testing to improve environment stability.
- •Produce board-ready KPI packs that connect operational health, delivery risk, and programme progress.
- •Mapped application dependencies (CMDB) to improve integration readiness and give leadership clear risk visibility.
About
Product systems at scale
I started my career building user interfaces, from ad-creative front-ends at Verizon Media to microfrontend and payment platform teams at Bottomline Technologies. That foundation in UI architecture still shapes how I think about product engineering systems: close to the user, close to the code, and deliberate about how teams build.
Now I lead multi-asset portfolio management platforms at JPMorgan Chase, covering the full investment lifecycle: target allocation engines (SAA/TAA), research feeds, alpha screening, exposure management, portfolio construction, and order execution. I stay actively involved in delivery through coding, pull request reviews, solution design, and technical direction, working closely with portfolio managers, research desks, and risk teams to turn investment strategies into reliable production systems.
My leadership style is hands-on and engaged: aligning people, product direction, technology, and outcomes through clear standards, pragmatic technical choices, and ways of working that help teams deliver reliable software at scale. On the technical side, I work across event-driven architecture, distributed caching, multi-region replication, AWS infrastructure, and resilience practices including chaos engineering, contract testing, and Infrastructure as Code with Terraform.
$438B+
Assets under management
8B+
Daily messages processed
4
Continents managed
15+
Years in engineering leadership
Experience
From ad-tech UIs to
investment platforms
15+ years building software, product platforms, and engineering teams, from front-end creative tooling at Verizon to business-critical portfolio systems at JPMorgan, with a consistently hands-on leadership style throughout.
Dec 2022 - Present
London
Multi-Asset Portfolio Management Systems
- •Lead the end-to-end multi-asset portfolio platform ($438B+ AUM) from target allocation engines and alpha screening to portfolio construction and order execution
- •Stay actively involved through coding, pull request reviews, solution design, and architecture decisions across production systems
- •Scaled transaction architecture to multi-region, supporting 8B+ daily messages through distributed caching and low-latency replication
- •Set product engineering and technical direction across global teams while sponsoring AI-assisted engineering adoption and stronger engineering standards
May 2020 - Dec 2022
Reading
Financial Transaction Platforms
- •Designed and shipped a microfrontend architecture (React + Module Federation) for the payment processing platform
- •Grew the engineering team by 200% in 12 months through structured hiring and mentoring
- •Delivered platforms handling 2B+ daily distributed financial transactions
- •Created a maturity matrix to prioritise investment in testing, CI/CD, and front-end tooling
Apr 2019 - May 2020
Oxford
Platform Engineering & DevOps
- •Led hands-on architecture for a globally distributed Higher Education platform team
- •Moved from manual deployments to Docker containers and automated CI/CD, cutting release cycles from weeks to days
- •Partnered with security to establish DevSecOps practices and a security-first culture
Aug 2012 - Apr 2019
London
AdTech Creative Platforms
- •Led 16+ engineers building the front-end creative tooling platform for ad assembly, preview, and launch
- •Scaled creative delivery systems to handle real-time bidding traffic under strict latency SLAs
- •Seven years managing distributed teams across in-house, remote, and offshore locations
Thought Leadership
The Agentic Playbook
Explore my ongoing series on AI-assisted development, product engineering workflows, quality controls, and the operating model needed for safe agentic adoption.
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opportunities
Interested in regulated product engineering, investment platforms, safe AI-assisted delivery, or global engineering leadership? I'd love to hear from you.
Thought Leadership
The Agentic Playbook
My ongoing series exploring AI-assisted development, engineering leadership in the AI era, and practical patterns for working with agentic tools.
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