Platform engineering and infrastructure leadership, hands-on and accountable.
Founding-team leadership, rooted in the platform.
Building the function
Built the platform services function at EMBL-EBI from no team, no playbook, and no existing culture. Hired the early engineers, defined ownership, introduced incident reviews, and set the standard.
Platform, not just operations
Deployment patterns, observability, CI/CD, IAM, transfer runtimes, infrastructure-as-code. The underlying systems product teams rely on to move fast without losing credibility.
Availability and performance
Reducing platform sprawl, improving throughput, removing fragility. Keeping systems credible with the stakeholders who depend on them in production.
London site-building
Direct access to central London and happy to build in person. Interested in the hiring, standard-setting, and early-culture part of growing a new engineering office.
Leadership built on repeated exposure to hard problems.
Deputy Head of Operations
Multidisciplinary teams across orchestration, monitoring, authentication, transfer, and mail. 8 direct reports, c. 20 influenced, £1M annual budget. FIRE archive growth from 15 PB to 150 PB+. Unified monitoring across 4,500 servers. Institution-wide IAM modernisation.
Active Archive Manager · Transfer & IAM Lead
Designed and delivered the FIRE archive system. Consolidated 35 transfer-service endpoints to 9, reducing complexity by 94% and increasing throughput by 500%. Led the UK Biobank COVID-19 data ingest (3.9 PB under critical deadline). Initiated IAM modernisation across 6 EMBL sites for 5,000+ users.
Solutions Architect · Technical Service Manager
Customer-facing solutions architecture for enterprise HPC, private cloud, and database platforms. Secured >$1M in new business. Deployed 200+ node HPC clusters in under 16 minutes.
Infrastructure Team Lead · Technical Consultant
Led infrastructure delivery teams across Linux, Windows, AIX, and macOS environments. Managed customer-facing HPC and enterprise deployments with contractual SLAs.
Research Infrastructure & Platforms Lead
Built and operated the research computing platform supporting growth from 50 to 250 people. Managed HPC, storage, and network infrastructure for media and signal-processing research.
Executive education and technical certification.
Cambridge Judge Business School
CTO Programme — Organisational Leadership (2024–2025). Strategic Thinking for the CXO (2025). Steering Complex Projects (2024–2025).
Saïd Business School, Oxford
Oxford Executive Finance Programme (2025–2026). BSc Computer Science & Engineering, Universitat Ramon Llull — La Salle, Barcelona (2001–2005).
ITIL 4 · PRINCE2 Agile
ITIL 4 Strategist: Direct, Plan & Improve (2026). PRINCE2 Agile® Practitioner (2020). ITIL v4 Foundation (2023).
Technical credentials
NVIDIA Accelerated Data Science & Adding Knowledge to LLMs (2025). Red Hat RHCSA + RHCE (2011). Oracle 11g OCA + OCP (2014–2015).