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

Marks and Spencer logo

Platform Engineer DevOps Consultant

Apr 2025 - Present

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.
Equal Experts logo

Senior DevOps Engineer

Sep 2024 - Present

Equal Experts

- South Africa · Remote

  • • DevSecOps
  • • GitHub
  • • Consulting
  • • Cloud-Native Architecture
  • • DevOps
  • • API Development
  • • Cloud Security
Merlin Entertainments logo

Senior DevOps / Data / Platform Engineer

Sep 2024 - Mar 2025

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
Unique Ventilation and Support Systems logo

Consulting CTO

Jan 2018 - Jan 2025

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
Nuuly logo

Staff Platform Engineer

Oct 2024 - Dec 2024

Nuuly

- United States · Remote

  • • Architecting scalable cloud infrastructure for a cutting-edge FMCG ecommerce subscription platform

Tools & Technologies

AWS AWS
Azure Azure
Kubernetes Kubernetes
Docker Docker
GitHub GitHub
Terraform Terraform
Visual Studio Code Visual Studio Code
Databricks Databricks
Google Cloud Platform Google Cloud Platform
Alibaba Cloud Alibaba Cloud
Digital Ocean Digital Ocean
Fly.io Fly.io
Cloudflare Cloudflare
Vercel Vercel
GitLab GitLab
Bitbucket Bitbucket
Jira Jira
Linear Linear
PostgreSQL PostgreSQL
MySQL MySQL
MongoDB MongoDB
SQLite SQLite
Redis Redis
ClickHouse ClickHouse
RavenDB RavenDB
Apache Kafka Apache Kafka
Airbyte Airbyte
Fivetran Fivetran
React React
Vue.js Vue.js
Svelte Svelte
SvelteKit SvelteKit
Next.js Next.js
Vite Vite
.NET .NET
Laravel Laravel
Blazor Blazor
Microsoft 365 Microsoft 365
Cisco Cisco
Mikrotik Mikrotik
Fortinet Fortinet
Juniper Networks Juniper Networks
Azure Maps Azure Maps
SAP SAP
Syspro Syspro
Xero Xero
Stripe Stripe
Paddle Paddle
Polar.sh Polar.sh
Zoho Zoho
Ubuntu Ubuntu
Windows Server Windows Server
Pinecone Pinecone
Google Maps Google Maps
Xero Xero
Zoho Zoho
DBT DBT
Vultr Vultr
Hetzner Hetzner
C++ C++
Golang Golang
C# C#
Lua Lua
PHP PHP

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