Infrastructure Specialist forI work alongside your team on the infrastructure that got you to your first hundred users and won't survive the next ten thousand, or your first enterprise security review. Thirty years of delivery across banking, pharma and industrial, so I know what those reviews ask. Hands-on, freelance or contract.
Services
Hands-on architecture and engineering, as a contractor, a fractional lead or a member of your team.
Design and build production agent infrastructure — multi-provider LLM orchestration, tool execution, conversation management, and enterprise governance.
Get models and agents into production with Kubeflow, Vertex AI, SageMaker, and AzureML. Training, serving, evaluation, and monitoring at scale.
Scalable, secure platforms on Azure, AWS, and GCP. Kubernetes-first with GitOps, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD built in.
Prompt evaluation frameworks, guardrails, and quality assurance for AI systems. Measure what matters before you ship.
Deploy your AI product into customer-controlled environments: BYOC, VPC, single-tenant and air-gapped. Sandboxed execution, tenant isolation and the audit trail enterprise security reviews ask for.
Build, mentor, and accelerate engineering teams. Global delivery experience across startups and enterprises.
Why me?
I build AI agent platforms from the ground up — LLM orchestration, tool execution, evaluation frameworks, and production governance. Not just plugging in an API.
30 years of hands-on delivery. Most recently I designed and built Omnia, a Kubernetes-native agent platform with multi-provider LLM support, sandboxed tools, per-call policy and evaluation.
I aim to make myself redundant. Your team gets stronger, not dependent. Pairing, mentoring, and documentation included.
Cloud Platforms
Azure Solutions Architect Expert · Azure DevOps Engineer Expert · Microsoft Certified Trainer
AKS · Azure AI · Service Fabric · Azure DevOps
AWS Certified Solutions Architect. Production platforms for Carrier, Endeavor, and AltaML.
EKS · SageMaker · Bedrock · Lambda · CloudFormation
Led ML platform architecture on GCP at HSBC, in a highly regulated environment.
Vertex AI · GKE · Workload Identity · VPC Service Controls
I've delivered solutions for some of the world's most recognised brands.
AltairaLabs
Omnia is a production agent platform I designed and built end to end at AltairaLabs. If your team is building the same thing, I've already made the mistakes.
Runs where the customer says.
Self-hosted on Kubernetes across AWS, Azure and GCP. The data, and the record of every agent decision, stay inside the business.
Sandboxed and governed.
Tools run in sandboxes holding credentials the model never sees, checked against per-call policy, with a receipt for every call.
Tested before it ships.
Agents are versioned, evaluated across models and gated before release. Swap providers without rewriting them.
Thoughts on cloud architecture, DevOps, ML platforms, and engineering leadership.
Electricity was commercialised in the early 1880s, and for forty years it barely changed what a factory could get done, because owners bought the new power and kept the old floor plan: same shafts, same belts, same layout, a different engine. We've just done the same with cloud, and we're lining up to do it again with AI. When anyone can buy the capability, what's left to compete on is the shape of the organisation using it.
What a company really spends its money on is the gathering: getting everyone pointed the same way, getting a decision to actually happen, getting one change past four teams and out of the door. More work has always meant more people, and more people has always meant more gathering. A working sheepdog doesn't obey that arithmetic. One dog and one handler move several hundred sheep, and another thousand sheep doesn't mean another thousand dogs. That ratio is the thing AI could finally break, and almost nobody is building for it yet.
Every year, roughly 2% of the whisky in every cask in Scotland breathes out through the wood and is gone. Nobody fights it. The angels' share, they call it, the price of letting the stuff mature at all. The economy runs the same trick on productivity, except our angels get greedier every year. Which is why Keynes promised your grandparents a fifteen-hour week and you're reading this between two meetings about a third.
There's a lump of granite off the Ayrshire coast that used to be a volcano. Sixty million years of weather wore it down to the one part hard enough to matter, and we've made the world's curling stones out of it ever since. Software does the opposite. Nothing ever erodes, every layer you've ever shipped is still down there needing somebody to mind it, and you pay for all of it in headcount and meetings. Oh, Fred Brooks, save us all.
Contract, fractional or full-time, for teams building AI platforms or shipping AI products into enterprise clouds. Based in Scotland, working UK, European and US East Coast hours.
Whether it's an agent platform, an ML pipeline, or the cloud infrastructure to run it all — bring in an architect who's building this stuff every day.
