Cape Town, South Africa
I help enterprises turn technology into their advantage.
I am a Senior Solutions Architect at AWS, working with the largest financial services, retail and telecommunications businesses in Sub-Saharan Africa. My work is helping organisations modernise, adopt new technology with confidence, and build platforms that let the business move faster. Architecture, transformation and innovation, with the security and resilience to back it up.
A decade helping enterprises modernise on the cloud.
For close to ten years I have worked across the full arc of cloud at AWS, from supporting production systems to architecting them and shaping the technology strategy behind them for some of the most demanding enterprises on the continent. Before AWS I was a security consultant at Barclays Africa, where I learned how much rides on getting technology right inside a regulated business.
My work today runs across architecture, modernisation and innovation. I help leadership teams decide what to build, what to retire and where new technology like AI can genuinely move the business forward. I am as comfortable in a design review as I am in a boardroom making the case for a transformation programme.
Deep security and resilience experience is part of what I bring, the discipline that comes from years of keeping critical systems standing. The bigger goal is leadership: owning technology across an organisation and using it to create real advantage, not just keep the lights on.
Four areas where I do my best work.
Cloud Architecture & Strategy
I design cloud platforms for enterprises with real constraints: regulation, legacy systems and no appetite for downtime. The goal is architecture the business can run and build on, not a reference diagram that looks good in a slide.
Digital Transformation & Modernisation
I help organisations decide what to modernise, what to retire and how to get there without breaking what already works. Transformation the business can absorb, sequenced around outcomes rather than technology for its own sake.
AI Adoption & Innovation
I help leadership teams put AI to work where it actually moves the needle, with the confidence to adopt it well. The interesting question is rarely whether to use AI. It is where AI creates real advantage.
Technology Leadership
I connect technology decisions to business outcomes and translate between engineers and executives. A security and resilience background means risk and reliability stay in the conversation, never bolted on at the end.
Where I have built.
Trusted technology advisor to the largest banks, retailers and telcos in the region. I shape cloud architecture and modernisation strategy for enterprise accounts, lead their security and resilience agenda, and help executives make the technology decisions that move their business. Progressed over nearly a decade from cloud support engineering through solutions architecture to a regional leadership scope.
Security consulting inside one of Africa's largest banking groups. The foundation of my financial services work and the reason security has stayed at the centre of everything since.
Where it started. Writing software before moving into cloud and security full time.
Education
Certifications
Let us talk about what comes next.
Open to conversations about technology leadership roles in financial services and beyond. Based in Cape Town, working across Sub-Saharan Africa, open to opportunities locally and internationally.