Data platforms, product systems, and too many side projects.

I build data platforms, rescue awkward migrations, and ship products. I also write, photograph, and create things - mostly because I find it hard to stop tinkering.

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Selected work

A product I built, a platform I helped reshape, and two earlier roles that show range.

I gravitate toward messy, ambiguous work. These are four examples of what that usually looks like

Music discovery platform

Founder / product / engineering

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synff

Built an independent music discovery product around listener intent, editorial judgment, and respect for artists.

Challenge

Most discovery tools optimise for attention loops. I wanted to build something slower, more intentional, and more respectful to the people making the music.

What I built

I designed and built the product, data model, ingestion and enrichment pipelines, auth, workflow orchestration, and the editorial voice around it.

Why it matters

synff proves I can take an idea from thesis to shipped product without handing off the interesting parts.

Product strategyFull-stack engineeringData modelingWorkflow orchestrationNext.js 16Neon PostgresTidalMusicBrainz

Compliance intelligence platform

Platform architecture and delivery

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Cosegic

Helped turn a stuck Azure + PHP migration into a lean event-driven platform the team could actually iterate on.

The original migration path was slowing delivery and constraining what the product could become.

I helped reshape the architecture around a modern multi-tenant Next.js stack, clearer domain boundaries, and typed workflows.

The team gained a platform that is easier to extend, faster to prototype on, and better suited to AI-assisted product work.

Platform architectureTechnical deliveryMulti-tenant systemsTyped workflowsNext.js 16DrizzleInngestVercel

ESG insights and intelligence

Novata

Data Engineering Lead

Built the data engineering function and cut a painful onboarding path from more than a month to one or two days.

Onboarding became dramatically faster, the team gained leverage, and the platform became more reliable.

Team leadershipOnboarding systemsData ingestionData governanceAWSSnowflakeS3

Global educational publisher

Twinkl

Head of Data Engineering

Set up the data engineering function and started replacing a legacy estate with more than 1,800 stored procedures.

The business got a clearer roadmap, a modern foundation to build on, and fewer reasons to keep negotiating with the past.

Data strategyLeadershipLegacy replacementPlatform foundationsDagsterdbtAWS S3

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Writing

Writing is part of the work, not a side quest.

If judgment matters, the words should carry some of that weight as well.

Essay / Create de Goods

Listening to everything, knowing nothing

A piece about how streaming abundance can flatten listening if you let it.

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Archive / Substack

Create de Goods

Essays on technology, culture, music, and building things with an actual point of view.

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Photography

Photography is how I slow down.

A different kind of attention to the same kinds of details.

Photography / Instagram

Create de Goods

Street, travel, food, and the things that make me stop walking.

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Contact

If the work is messy, technical, or quietly political, I can help.

Data, architecture, workflow design, product thinking, and the odd rescue mission.

I gravitate toward platforms that need simplification, data foundations that need adult supervision, and ideas that need someone to give them shape. Email is the easiest route.

Get in touch

GitHub

Code, experiments, and in-progress ideas.

The tidy version of the CV.

Substack

Essays, notes, and opinions that did not fit anywhere else.

Instagram

Photography and visual work.