Fractional Architect for
AI & Cloud Platforms

I help organisations get AI into production. From agent architecture and MLOps pipelines to the cloud platforms that run them — I embed with your team to design, build, and ship. No permanent hire, no ramp-up time. 25 years of delivery across banking, pharma, industrial, and enterprise SaaS.

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Case studies

25+

Years experience

Cloud platforms

30+

Enterprise clients

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How I help

Fractional architecture and engineering leadership — from a few days of advisory to months of embedded delivery.

AI Agent Platforms

Design and build production agent infrastructure — multi-provider LLM orchestration, tool execution, conversation management, and enterprise governance.

MLOps & AI Pipelines

Get models and agents into production with Kubeflow, Vertex AI, SageMaker, and AzureML. Training, serving, evaluation, and monitoring at scale.

Cloud Architecture

Scalable, secure platforms on Azure, AWS, and GCP. Kubernetes-first with GitOps, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD built in.

AI Evaluation & Governance

Prompt evaluation frameworks, guardrails, and quality assurance for AI systems. Measure what matters before you ship.

SaaS Platform Delivery

End-to-end SaaS product delivery — multi-tenancy, billing, onboarding, and operational excellence at scale.

Engineering Leadership

Build, mentor, and accelerate engineering teams. Global delivery experience across startups and enterprises.

Why fractional?

The right expertise, when you need it

Embedded, not outsourced

I work as part of your team — attending standups, reviewing PRs, and shipping to production. From agent architecture to cloud infrastructure, I bridge the gap between AI ambition and production reality.

AI-native, not AI-curious

I build AI agent platforms from the ground up — LLM orchestration, tool execution, evaluation frameworks, and production governance. Not just plugging in an API.

Senior from day one

25 years of hands-on delivery. Recent work includes a Kubernetes-native AI agent platform with multi-provider LLM support, prompt evaluation, and enterprise-grade session management.

Knowledge transfer built in

I aim to make myself redundant. Your team gets stronger, not dependent. Pairing, mentoring, and documentation included.

Cloud Platforms

Certified across all three hyperscalers

Microsoft Azure

Azure Solutions Architect Expert · Azure DevOps Engineer Expert · Microsoft Certified Trainer

AKS · Azure AI · Service Fabric · Azure DevOps

Amazon Web Services

AWS Certified Solutions Architect. Production platforms for Carrier, Endeavor, and AltaML.

EKS · SageMaker · Bedrock · Lambda · CloudFormation

Google Cloud Platform

Currently leading ML platform architecture on GCP at HSBC in a highly regulated environment.

Vertex AI · GKE · Workload Identity · VPC Service Controls

Trusted by leading organisations

I've delivered solutions for some of the world's most recognised brands.

AltairaLabs

I also build the platform.

Consulting is one half of what I do. The other is Omnia: a self-hostable, Kubernetes-native platform for running AI agents on infrastructure you control. Model-agnostic, with no vendor holding the keys.

Runs on your Kubernetes.

Your systems, your data, and the record of every agent decision stay inside the business.

Model-agnostic by design.

Multi-provider orchestration, prompt evaluation, and guardrails built in. Swap providers without rewriting agents.

Pre-launch and founder-led.

I'm taking one or two lighthouse teams to build against real workloads.

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Thoughts on cloud architecture, DevOps, ML platforms, and engineering leadership.

The Bottleneck Was Never Typing

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.

The Angels' Share of Every Productivity Gain

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.

Nature Spent 60 Million Years Removing Complexity. We Add It Every Quarter.

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.

Getting It Out of Their Heads

Every enterprise technology programme for forty years has been the same project: getting what people know out of their heads and into a system. AI is just the first tool sharp enough to reach the knowledge we always called too skilled to automate. Here's what the rising water does when it finally reaches the high ground, and why I help build the thing that worries me.

Available Q1 2027

Taking on new engagements from Q1 2027

Fractional architecture and delivery leadership — from focused sprints to multi-month embedded engagements. Remote-first, based in Scotland, available worldwide.

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Fractional Architect forAI & Cloud Platforms