Senior backend engineer working on live, business-critical systems.

The code making your money and the code scaring your engineers is usually the same code. That's where I work - across e-commerce, retail, higher education, legal, startups, and digital agencies. The problems are rarely unique to the industry - they come down to systems that have grown faster than the people maintaining them.

I'm hands-on and I get involved beyond the code: helping teams understand unfamiliar systems, making architectural decisions, and explaining the trade-offs to the people responsible for the business. I've worked as a lead and principal engineer, staying close to implementation, debugging and the engineers maintaining the work.

I can take a product from the first requirements through frontend, backend and infrastructure to deployment, handover and ongoing support. Recent work includes retail checkout services, catalogue automation and a Laravel learning platform with agentic question generation and human review.

I've been programming since childhood - BASIC on the family PC, dial-up internet, LAN parties, building my own rigs. Studied computing through school, college, and university, but I was already hooked long before that.
It's never just been a job.