Hey, I'm Josh 👋
I'm a seasoned Principal Engineer and Fractional CTO with a deep focus on DevOps, Software Engineering, Platform Architecture, and AI.
With over 15 years of hands-on experience, I specialize in building, scaling, and managing robust, high-quality solutions, particularly for SaaS and AI-driven applications.
Across my career, I've navigated the entire development and maintenance lifecycle, tackling challenges from full-stack development and network engineering to infrastructure management and strategic team leadership. I have a proven track record of delivering impactful results for diverse clients, from global enterprises to startups.
While many Fractional CTOs focus on the business/executive side, I make sure to spend most of my time in the trenches actively engineering products
Experience

Platform Engineer DevOps Consultant
Marks and Spencer
- London Area, United Kingdom · Remote
- • Advisory and engineering services related to dev and data platform engineering for multiple global websites, and apps.
- • Consumer appstore apps as well as internal systems used in warehouses.

Senior DevOps Engineer
Equal Experts
- South Africa · Remote
- • DevSecOps
- • GitHub
- • Consulting
- • Cloud-Native Architecture
- • DevOps
- • API Development
- • Cloud Security

Senior DevOps / Data / Platform Engineer
Merlin Entertainments
- London Area, United Kingdom · Remote
- • Built the Merlin Digital Platform on Azure
- • Migrated to the Data Platform team and helped improve operations and maintainability of the Databricks infrastructure
- • Keen focus on AI/MLops pipelines

Consulting CTO
Unique Ventilation and Support Systems
- South Africa · Hybrid
- • Planned and executed a complete migration from all managed IT infrastructure owned by their parent holding group
- • Migration of all data from legacy macsteel exchange / ActiveDirectory to hybrid cloud Azure AD & Office 365
- • Migration of BCX hosted Syspro ERP to own servers
- • Brand new national multi-branch IT infrastructure design and implementation

Staff Platform Engineer
Nuuly
- United States · Remote
- • Architecting scalable cloud infrastructure for a cutting-edge FMCG ecommerce subscription platform