About Me
Technical Solutions Architect with 15+ years of experience across software consulting, data warehousing, and enterprise cloud architecture. Founder of an independent consultancy, specializing in GCP/AWS architectures, AI/MLOps solutions, and strategic business engineering.
Core Competencies
Cloud & Infrastructure
AI & Data Engineering
Architecture & Code
Certifications
2019 Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect
2019 Google Cloud Certified Professional Data Engineer
2020 AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
2012 Data Warehousing & Web Development Certs
Highlights & Speaker
🎤 Major cloud vendor summit speaker (2026)
🎤 Developer community academy speaker (2025)
🏆 Employee of the Year at cloud consulting firm (2023)
🎤 AgriTech and AI industry expo speaker (2020)
Professional Experience
Director & Business Value Engineer @ Independent Cloud & Data Consultancy
Nov 2024 to Present
- Drive technical consulting, pricing, contracts, solution design, and deployment for enterprise clients.
- Retail Industry AI/MLOps Specialist (Sept 2025 to Jan 2026): AI and MLOps lead for retail sector engagement.
- AI Governance Technical Lead & Product Owner (July 2025 to present): Technical direction and PO responsibilities for AI governance.
- Google Cloud Solutions Architect (Sept 2025 to present): Delivering high-impact migrations and cloud systems.
Key Delivered Projects:
- Legal Document Generator: Built with React, FastAPI, Postgres on GCP infrastructure via CI/CD.
- Agent Augmented Doc Review: AI-driven automated legal document analysis platform.
- Enterprise Data Warehouse: Designed & deployed large-scale data platform for Insurance sector.
- Platform Review: Media and Marketing sector (Jan 2025 to May 2025).
Principal Engineer @ Cloud Solutions Provider
Apr 2024 to Nov 2024
- Supported technical pre-sales, lead R&D efforts, and delivered complex billable client architectures.
Head of Innovation Services @ Cloud Consulting Firm
Sep 2022 to Mar 2024
- Led 5-member Architecture Team and chaired the Architecture Review Board.
- Architected cloud blueprints, technical audits, pre-sales engineering, and executive advisory.
Pre-Sales Architect & Tech Lead @ Data & Cloud Consultancy
Sep 2018 to Sep 2022
- Pre-Sales Architect (2021-2022): Designed GCP/AWS architectures, user/process flows, & roadmaps.
- Technical Lead (2019-2021): Managed delivery team of 5 to 10 engineers using 2-week Agile sprints.
- Data Engineer (2018-2019): Built GCP BigQuery, Composer (Airflow), Cloud Functions, & Python pipelines.
Business Intelligence Analyst @ Major South African Bank
2008 to 2018
- 10-year tenure designing data warehouses, ETL/ELT pipelines, and BI dashboards using Microsoft SQL Server stack (SSMS, SSAS, SSIS, SSRS) and T-SQL.