Embedded delivery for organisations integrating AI into mission-critical cloud platforms.

I am a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in AWS Cloud and DevOps with over ten years of experience delivering cloud transformation across financial services, media, and technology. I founded First Cloud Solutions to bring that enterprise grade rigour directly to mid-size and large organisations who need a trusted technical partner — not a generic consultancy.

My work spans the full breadth of cloud engineering: migrating complex distributed systems at scale, hardening security posture across large AWS estates, designing Kubernetes platforms that teams can actually operate, and integrating AI and ML capabilities into production cloud-native architectures.

More recently, my focus has shifted to forward deployed AI engineering — embedding within enterprise product and operations teams to design agentic workflows, RAG pipelines, and prompt architectures that connect advanced AI capability directly to business processes. At LearnersCloud, I re-engineered a passive video platform into an adaptive, AI-driven learning application with real-time student profiling and automated remediation. At Barclaycard via Avanade, I led the integration of AI-augmented pipelines into a mission-critical payment gateway.

I hold five AWS certifications — DevOps Engineer Professional, Solutions Architect Professional, Security Specialty, Advanced Networking Specialty, and AI Practitioner — and I work comfortably in both embedded team and independent consulting environments.