Nov 2025 – Present · 6 mos · London, England, United Kingdom

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Sep 2024 – Nov 2025 · 1 yr 2 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

• Private‑equity backed, digital asset infrastructure and staking platform. Spearheaded the engineering, infrastructure, and security strategy for a digital asset organisation supporting $350M+ AUM. Focused on scaling enterprise-grade infrastructure, driving M&A technical integration, and establishing rigorous compliance standards.
• Key Achievements:
• Infrastructure & Scale: Re-architected validator infrastructure across 40+ blockchain networks to support rapid scaling and institutional demands.
• Enterprise Reliability: Achieved 99.9%+ uptime across mission-critical systems by introducing unified incident response, SRE, and governance frameworks.
• Data Strategy: Designed and delivered comprehensive data platforms that seamlessly integrated financial, on-chain, and infrastructure telemetry for real-time intelligence.
• M&A Leadership: Directed the end-to-end technical due diligence and seamless system integration for a strategic $70M acquisition.
• Security & Compliance: Elevated the organization's security posture, successfully achieving ISO 27001 certification and full regulatory registration.

May 2023 – Aug 2024 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Served on the Starknet Foundation's DeFi Committee, driving strategic initiatives to scale decentralized finance, accelerate liquidity, and foster ecosystem-wide innovation.
• Key Achievements:
• Strategic DeFi Programs: Designed and spearheaded high-impact ecosystem programs to support, scale, and guide emerging DeFi projects.
• Liquidity & Go-To-Market: Drove targeted initiatives to accelerate GTM strategies for key liquidity providers, strengthening overall network liquidity and capital efficiency.
• Incentive Architecture: Engineered and deployed incremental yield incentive frameworks, significantly boosting project visibility, user engagement, and capital inflow.
• Ecosystem Advocacy: Actively advanced the Starknet Foundation's core mission by championing sustainable innovation and developer adoption across the decentralized finance landscape.

Sep 2021 – Sep 2024 · 3 yrs · Greater London, England, United Kingdom

• Served as CTO / CPTO across multiple high-growth Starknet ecosystem initiatives. Led the product and engineering strategy for a portfolio of Web3 products, including DeFi infrastructure, consumer wallets, cross-chain systems, and advanced distributed computation platforms.
• Key Achievements:
• Financial Infrastructure: Engineered and delivered mission-critical trading infrastructure that successfully powered $2.4B+ in transaction volume.
• Scale & Performance: Built and optimized high-throughput distributed systems capable of reaching 60,000+ TPS.
• Product & Ecosystem Growth: Drove massive ecosystem adoption, reaching 100,000+ users and actively contributing to developer onboarding and strategic network expansion.
• Organisational Leadership: Scaled multiple high-performing engineering organizations from the ground up to deliver production-grade blockchain platforms.
• Talent Development: Focused heavily on organizational design, successfully hiring, mentoring, and developing senior engineering leaders across multiple teams.

Mar 2016 – Dec 2021 · 5 yrs 9 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

• Founding CTO
• Established the technical vision, architecture, and organizational growth for a global SaaS platform bridging logistics, ride-hailing, and e-commerce. Led the company from inception to international scale, building a world-class engineering culture to support complex, high-volume operational demands.
• Key Achievements:
• Hyper-Growth Scaling: Architected and scaled platform infrastructure to support massive daily operational volume, successfully executing 850,000+ deliveries and 190,000+ rides.
• Organizational Leadership: Built and scaled a high-performing, engineering-centric organisation from 0 to 200+ people, establishing agile processes and cross-functional team structures.
• Financial Infrastructure: Engineered a highly secure and resilient payment and commerce engine that processed over $100M+ in transaction volume.
• Global Expansion: Drove the technical strategy for international expansion, adapting system architecture and compliance frameworks to support seamless operations across multiple global markets.
• Real-Time Data Architecture: Designed and deployed mission-critical, real-time data infrastructure to power complex dynamic pricing algorithms, sophisticated logistics routing, and robust fraud detection systems.

Jan 2014 – Mar 2016 · 2 yrs 2 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

• Created an innovative software product focused on social media ROI. Fulfilled day-to-day management of product development and service maintenance to support the business development strategy.
• Hired, built and managed a successful development team from zero to 20+ engineers, built platform infrastructure, service and core product from initial idea to implementation to successful SaaS business.

Sep 2012 – Jan 2014 · 1 yr 4 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

• Hired, built (from 2 to 10+ engineers) and managed a successful technology team, built company’s core service and core product from initial idea to implementation to successful ready-to-use service and product.

Jan 2009 – Jan 2013 · 4 yrs · London Area, United Kingdom