London, England, United Kingdom
AI technologist and software engineer leader (hands-on) - 3 awards in 2025, including 'Disruptor of the Year' (UK Fintech Awards) - 8 shortlists in 2025 across the UK, EU, and USA Fintech awards - Grew Pie Tax to 60k+ downloads in less than 1 year - Multi-million £ savings & high-impact results leading small teams with lean budgets - Implemented an AI-first fintech culture at Pie Led the research and development of the core prototype behind the UK’s first AI Accountant, an advanced AI Agentic system powered by a knowledge-graph architecture with ML and LLMs. At its core, it uses tool orchestration for real-time tax calculation integrated with Open Banking and HMRC APIs. The platform offers full autonomy throughout the entire tax lifecycle. I take products from MVP and market fit to scalable B2B/B2C solutions, such as Pie Tax and Rated. I lead engineering teams with a focus on trust and accountability, and I have experience working with major brands, including Google, Red Bull, and Disney, while navigating compliance and diverse work environments.
I lead the end-to-end innovation lifecycle, from rapid prototyping to scalable deployment, with a focus on building AI-first solutions and automating our SaaS B2C and B2B products. My core responsibility is to identify, design, and deliver the most effective, production-ready approaches in the shortest timeframes. Key responsibilities: • AI System Design: Built the prototype that powers the UK’s first AI Accountant, using Python, LLM APIs, multiple RAG pipelines, and state knowledge graph agents to enable fully autonomous tax filing. • Ownership of Innovation: Drive architectural decisions and hands-on development of AI-powered features, including prompt engineering for R&D, Open Banking integrations, financial transactions categorisation, and real-time tax logic. • App Leadership: Prototyped and now oversee the development of our React Native mobile app, ensuring seamless integration between frontend UX and complex backend services. • Team and Culture: Mentor engineers, define delivery best practices, and create a culture focused on speed, autonomy, and compliance. Latest achievements: • Rapid Growth: Took Pie Tax from MVP to 60k+ downloads in under 1 year. • High Impact: Achieved multi-million £ savings leading small, lean teams. • Recognition: 3 awards in 2025, including 'Disruptor of the Year' (UK Fintech Awards). At Pie, my tech stack is based on Python and Node.js for the backend, and Gen AI, as well as React (utilising Next.js and React Native with TypeScript) for MVP and production-ready applications. Day-to-day, in addition to guiding engineers, I work hands-on with tools such as LangChain, PydanticAI, LangGraph, LangSmith, Pinecone, and PostgreSQL, and actively experiment with multiple RAG techniques and LLM evaluation frameworks.
• Provide strategic advice and feedback on research objectives, methodology, and deliverables for empowering women graduates in Data and AI. • Offer insights on industry best practices and trends in AI and data skill development for early-career professionals. • Collaborated to drive impactful research initiatives.
Designed and built a large-scale App from an ever-evolving MVP to a successful launch. To ensure that key strategic objectives were aligned with technical capabilities, I reported to the CEO and the board. - Software Architecture: Planned, designed, and implemented the data structure. - Frontend Development: Developed a cross-platform React Native App from scratch, using my technical skills to ensure performance and usability. - Performance Optimization: Leveraged mobile FFMpeg to push app performance boundaries, resulting in a streamlined and responsive user experience. - Team Management: The company expanded, and I took on responsibility for managing the tech team, hiring frontend, backend, and devops engineers. - Growth Strategy: Played an integral role in establishing Rated e-commerce marketplace into a platform with over 100,000 users within two years. - Stakeholder Communication: Regularly reported to the CEO and compliance, ensuring transparency about technical challenges, project status, and strategy alignment. Facilitated critical decisions about tech directions and investments.
During my time at Programmai, I spearheaded the development of their first B2B CRM dashboard. In this significant undertaking, data had to be synchronized between the application and AI models. My contributions enabled interaction between user-friendly interfaces and complex AI algorithms, resulting in a tool that significantly enhanced our clients' business operations.
Established in London, I co-founded a nimble, innovative digital agency with a talented digital designer. As a dynamic duo, we effectively combined our skills to create a broad spectrum of digital products for an impressive array of well-known brands and leading marketing agencies. Our accomplishments include the development of a bespoke web application for Channel4, numerous interactive websites, and engaging games that span various platforms, like the Goaler Game which was a Google Chrome Experiment featuring interaction between mobile devices and desktops and had thousands of matches per day. During this time, I also provided frontend development services for some of the largest London marketing agencies, including MC Saatchi and Saatchi, Essence, BBH, for clients and brands such as Google, Swarovski, BNP, Jimmy Choo, Diesel, Porsche, etc...