Principal Engineer
Backend Platforms & Distributed Systems
I design and run the systems behind streaming platforms used by millions — authentication, billing, catalogue, and the infrastructure that keeps them online. 13 years in production. Currently extending that discipline into agentic AI.
Click any company to see what I built there.
Built and ran the IDP for Hubbl's full platform — OAuth2, JWT, API-key strategies handling 5,000 req/sec at peak, 1,500 sustained. Separately, designed a token-exchange service that cut Auth0 cost by 30% and load by 50–60% through clean authn/authz separation.
Architected the subscription management backbone for Binge — Kafka-driven, async, engineered so a user clicking "subscribe" gets confirmation within 30 seconds end to end, every time, at production scale.
Built the New Relic observability suite from scratch — dashboards, synthetic monitors, alerting wired into Slack — delivering incident notifications within 5 minutes of detection. Stood as primary escalation point for production incidents across the platform.
Led the migration of 20+ services from EC2 to Kubernetes for Kayo Sports, giving the platform auto-scaling, faster rollbacks, and the elasticity to absorb live sports traffic spikes without manual capacity planning.
Partnered directly with external pen-test teams, providing API specs and platform context for annual assessments. Co-ordinated remediation of every critical finding — zero carry-over between cycles, every year.
Extending 13 years of backend discipline into agentic systems — Spring AI, LangChain4j, and Ollama, applied to real problems rather than demos. See the projects below.
What I work on after hours — mostly an excuse to get hands-on with agentic AI.
Spring Boot 3 · React · Ollama · LangChain4j · PostgreSQL
An AI-powered expense tool that runs a local LLM end to end — natural-language categorisation, a ReAct agent loop for multi-step reasoning over financial data, and early RAG patterns for personalised insight generation. No cloud LLM calls; everything runs on Ollama.
Spring Boot 3 · Kubernetes · PostgreSQL · Kafka · AWS
A hyperlocal home-food marketplace concept — event-driven microservices backend, CQRS and outbox pattern across seller, order, and payment domains, deployed on Kubernetes.