Work
The case studies below carry the detail — decisions owned, teams involved, outcomes. The list underneath them is the range: fifteen years of shipped client and product work.
Case studies
Scaling an engineering organisation from five to thirty-five
GenXAI Softgrid (formerly SoftGrid Computers)
Built an engineering department from five people to thirty-five across four teams, and kept most of them.
5 → 35 Engineers, over fifteen years
Rolling out AI-assisted development across thirty-five engineers
GenXAI Softgrid
Evaluated, piloted and rolled out GitHub Copilot and then Claude Code across four engineering squads.
35+ Engineers onboarded
Acting CTO for a viral marketing SaaS at a million hits a day
Upviral
Acting CTO for five years for a viral marketing platform, scaling it past a million daily hits.
1M+ / day Requests at peak
Turning a hundred purchase orders a day into one import file
A national power-trading company, and a national radio broadcaster
A vision and language model pipeline that reads purchase orders in any state format and emits one schema.
~100 / day Purchase orders processed
Ten million push notifications a day
Feedify
Browser push notification SaaS delivering over ten million notifications a day.
10M+ / day Notifications delivered
Multiple cloud migrations, up to a full platform architecture
Company products and client engagements
AWS to Azure and on-premises to Azure migrations, from single servers to a complete platform architecture.
AWS · Azure · GCP Major clouds in production
Acting CTO for a Facebook advertising platform
Connectio
Acting CTO for three years for a Facebook advertising platform built on the Graph and Business APIs.
3 yrs As acting CTO
A real-time operations view for a mobile device manufacturer
A confidential Finland-based mobile device manufacturer
A leadership dashboard giving real-time visibility across order management and delivery, surfacing bottlenecks before they escalated.
Real-time Order, delivery and issue visibility
Architecting a website builder platform from scratch
Shopvii
Architected a subscription website-builder platform end to end — multi-tenant sites, customer dashboard, order management.
End-to-end Architecture, first design to production
An enterprise planning system integrated with Anaplan
Godrej Agrovet
Engagement and delivery lead for a planning system integrated with Anaplan, running since 2022.
2022 → Ongoing engagement
A financial planning tool for a diversified conglomerate
Aditya Birla
Engagement and delivery lead for a financial planning tool built for one of India's largest conglomerates.
2025 → Ongoing engagement
Taking over a live product with no formal handover
It's Layered
Took over a live consumer platform with no formal knowledge transfer, stabilised it, and shipped new features.
Jun 2026 → Ongoing engagement
Also delivered
- Ikusocial — SaaS platform for managing, planning and publishing across multiple social accounts
- Floky — product analytics platform tracking clicks, mouse movement and session behaviour
- Locumbay — UK pharmacy locum marketplace connecting owners with available locums
- Savio Plus — aggregated coupons and deals platform
- Uptown Realty Austin — hyperlocal real-estate platform
- The Binge — personalised chocolate ecommerce brand
- Swish Boss — designer fashion and apparel store
- Pridal — women's designer occasionwear store
- Ingeca Group — online language-learning platform
- Veda Grace — healthcare services platform
- NorthWestern Plastics — appointment booking for a plastic surgery clinic
- Slim Target — personalised weight-loss programme platform
- E-Visa Lawyer — US E2 investor visa resource and enquiry platform
- DRS Agent Network — relocation support platform for doctors
- Indori Namkeen — ecommerce for a major Central Indian food manufacturer
- Christmas Office Party — UK corporate event booking platform
- Crompton India — Shopify commerce with custom PHP middleware integrating enterprise backends
- Otonomic — WordPress multisite SaaS generating a website from a Facebook business page
- CookingMummy — custom PHP marketplace for home chefs, with recipes, orders and payments
- Mint Edition — custom CMS with member accounts and monthly magazine downloads
- VR Calendar Sync — published wordpress.org plugin syncing vacation-rental availability over iCal
- WP Secure Player — pay-per-view video platform with Stripe and PayPal
- Support Ticket Theme — ticketing system with built-in knowledgebase
- Lockin Traffic — social-share content unlocking plugin
- The Lucky Monk — design-led restaurant site