Infrastructure and platform leader. Building teams and systems that hold up under load.
Eight sites, one practice. Each a different lens on the same work.
Delivery over theatre. Operating quality over novelty.
Most of my work sits where storage, transfer, identity, and observability meet the teams that run them. The foundations a research or product organisation depends on in order to move quickly without losing the trust it has earned.
At EMBL-EBI I have taken the FIRE archive from 15 PB to more than 150 PB, consolidated 35 transfer endpoints to 9 with a fivefold throughput gain, and led identity modernisation across six sites and five thousand users.
What I am most interested in now is the wider picture: architecture that lasts, operating models that produce sensible decisions without heroics, and the conditions under which strong engineers do their best work.
The sites indexed above show the same practice from different angles — the operator, the strategist, the small-business delivery surface, and the tools and notes I maintain alongside all of it.
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 professional 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 DPI · 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).
A three-phase path for UK & EU SMEs.
60-minute discovery, system map, top three automation opportunities, ROI framing, and a fixed-scope sprint proposal within five business days.
One workflow or monitoring system delivered in seven calendar days. One revision round, handover documentation, and fourteen days of email hypercare.
Uptime, SSL, and endpoint visibility. One monthly report. No seat-based creep and no open-ended SoW.
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