Work With Me: Contract and Fractional CTO

Glaicier

Agentic and full-stack engineering consultantJuly 2026 to present

Glaicier's founder used AI coding agents to build Novalysis, a Microsoft 365 data-governance and migration platform for UK healthcare and public-sector organisations. I joined as its first software engineer, with a brief to end the platform's dependence on one person. The engagement grew from two to three days a week within the first week.

• Traced 72% of all error telemetry (197,645 traces in one week) to a database connection pool closed under running sync loops, which had also been silently dropping group memberships.
• Hardened continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) across 53 GitHub Actions workflows, so infrastructure and code now deploy from the same release tag.
• Wrote 114 issues for an automated Claude Code fix pipeline and reviewed the agents’ pull requests; the agents shipped 27 of them.

Novalysis no longer depends on one person.

TypeScript, Next.js, React, Azure Functions, Azure SQL, Bicep, PowerShell 7, GitHub Actions, Claude Code

Bossie Hurley

Agentic engineering consultantAugust to October 2026

My second contract with Bossie Hurley, for a US member-owned healthcare cooperative. The work was its claims rules engine: the rules that decide whether a member's claim is approved automatically or needs a person to look at it. Every feature went through Spec Kit, with an AI agent driving and me navigating.

• Built four generic rule types and the rules for three of the cooperative’s products, across 16 features.
• Kept the engine to two outcomes, approve or route to a person, and removed the last path that could deny a claim automatically.
• Found continuous integration passing while 66 of 1,264 test files never ran, then added 1,512 test cases.

Sixteen features delivered in under six weeks.

TypeScript, Node.js, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, TypeORM, Spec Kit

Bossie Hurley

Software engineering consultantOctober 2025 to May 2026

Designed and built, from the ground up, a cloud-native reporting platform for one of Bossie Hurley's global enterprise SaaS clients. The brief asked for something rare: new report types and changed logic that ship without a deployment.

• Every report’s filters, groupings and calculated metrics live as configuration, evaluated at runtime, so a new report is a configuration change.
• Split orchestration and PDF rendering into independent containerised services on Azure Container Apps, with no runtime secrets.
• Drove the build test-first across unit, integration, contract and regression suites.

The team ships new reports without shipping software.

.NET 10, ASP.NET Core, Azure Container Apps, Cosmos DB, Playwright, xUnit

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Ligentia

Technology consultant, AI tooling and developer productivityJune 2025 to April 2026

Ligentia's Chief Information Officer (CIO) brought me in to introduce AI development tooling to a team with no prior AI experience, and a healthy scepticism about it. The work was as much cultural as technical.

• Evaluated the options with the Director of Engineering, chose Claude Code, and ran a structured pilot with the Head of Automation.
• Ran weekly lunch-and-learns where developers shared their own findings, which did more for adoption than any top-down push.
• On the proving-ground project, the full architecture for a three-month scope was in place within the first month.

Feature delivery improved by 75%, measured on the team’s own DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) dashboards.

“Within a week of him working with us, he had already identified five different areas for improvement, given two inspiring talks, and created a handful of engaging demos, all leading to almost immediate ROI.”

Claude Code, GitHub Spec Kit

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CreateFuture

Senior software engineering consultantJune 2024 to April 2025

Development consultancy across two CreateFuture client projects: an online gaming company and the world's largest aviation data aggregator.

• Helped both clients move from on-premises-only hosting to the cloud, which raised throughput and lowered running costs.
• Worked across modern .NET, JavaScript and TypeScript, database design, DevOps pipelines and multi-cloud support.

.NET, TypeScript, SQL, DevOps, multi-cloud

Williams Racing

Software development consultantMay 2023 to February 2024

A solo engagement on a project with serious code-quality and release-cadence problems. The codebase was about five years old, had no tests, and very few people in the business knew how it worked.

• Documented how the code worked, and added integration tests for known good inputs and expected outputs.
• Added metrics and logging, because there was almost no visibility into which parts of the codebase were in use.

.NET, Entity Framework Core, WPF, ASP.NET Core