AI platforms · cloud engineering · data products

Turning complex business problems into dependable AI products.

I design and build secure, human-centred AI systems and the cloud foundations behind them—from data pipelines and model orchestration to the product experience people use every day.

Based in Johannesburg, South AfricaIndependent work Quantum Shelf products
Selected use cases

Business problems solved with AI and software.

Examples of the business workflows I have helped improve, described without internal product names or proprietary details.

01 / FINANCIAL ANALYSIS

Human-reviewed financial review

Designed an AI-assisted workflow for reviewing financial documents and transcripts, preparing structured questions and summaries while keeping people responsible for decisions.

FastAPIReactAzure AI FoundryMicrosoft Graph
02 / CASH-FLOW FORECASTING

Treasury cash-flow visibility

Built a treasury dashboard and self-service data intake workflow that brought multiple outflow sources into a traceable forecast with useful planning horizons.

SnowflakePythonTypeScriptAzure
03 / AI PLATFORM ENGINEERING

Reliable foundations for AI products

Improved shared application foundations with clearer architecture boundaries, event-driven audit and telemetry, secure workload identity, and reusable cloud infrastructure.

PythonPostgreSQLBicepAzure DevOps
04 / DATA AND AI SERVICES

Applied AI and data engineering

Built cloud-hosted AI services, retrieval systems, workflow APIs, model evaluation, and analytics pipelines for business and operational teams.

RAGFastAPIAWS SageMakerAzure
Independent product work

Quantum Shelf and its products.

A personal product platform for experiments and useful software. These projects are independent of my consulting work and are at different stages of development.

PLATFORM

Quantum Shelf

A platform shell for bringing applications, games, and labs together, with product access and permissions managed independently from sign-in.

Product platformReactFastAPI
APP

QueueFlow

A focused queue-management product for organising work items and keeping operational tasks moving.

OperationsWeb application
APP

House Stock

A household inventory product in the Quantum Shelf ecosystem, designed to make everyday home stock easier to track.

Household inventoryProduct design
LIVE EXPERIENCE

CaseDesk Live

An interactive investigation experience where players work a case and a live audience can contribute leads and vote on next steps.

Interactive storytellingLive audience
DEVELOPER TOOLING

Orchestrator SDK

An experimental SDK for contextual in-app guidance, connecting semantic actions to navigation and an early natural-language planner.

React SDKDeveloper tooling
How I work

Strong foundations. Useful products.

I work across architecture and implementation, connecting business needs to systems that teams can operate, secure, and extend.

AI product architecture

Agent workflows, retrieval, model evaluation, human review, and traceable outputs grounded in reliable data.

Cloud platforms and identity

Azure-native delivery, managed identities, secure data access, infrastructure as code, and environment promotion.

Full-stack delivery

Python services and modern web applications, with CI/CD, operational telemetry, and production support built in.

Experience

Across AI, data, and transformation.

CrossCountry Consulting

Manager, Business Transformation · AI Lab

Leading hands-on architecture and engineering for internal AI products and shared delivery foundations.

Klipboard

Senior AI Software Engineer

Built cloud-native AI and data services, workflow APIs, and evaluation and telemetry capabilities.

Boxfusion · Shesha

Senior AI Software Engineer · Data & AI Tech Lead · Senior Data Analyst

Progressed through data analytics, data and AI leadership, and enterprise AI engineering roles.

Let’s build something dependable.

For AI platform, cloud engineering, and product conversations, reach out by email or find me on GitHub.