Work

• 2025–

  Catermonkey, Contract Software Engineer

  Built Claude-based import pipelines turning supplier PDFs, spreadsheets and emails into structured products, customers and orders in 12 languages, cutting manual data entry by over 90%; also a document-template engine, Typesense search and an MCP server, on a multi-tenant Clojure/ClojureScript SaaS for events and catering.

• 2025–

  Sombra, Founder

  Built a shared time-travelling context management platform for teams and their AI agents: web pages and notes saved into collections, then distilled for any MCP client to load. Clojure, Pedestal and Datomic, with a remote MCP server written from scratch and team workspaces. Live since June 2025.

• 2025

  Stunt Double, Contract Software Engineer

  Built an agentic system running 20,000+ automated web interactions a day, plus a real-time collaborative flow editor.

• 2024

  Scarlet, Contract Software Engineer

  Built a versioned documentation engine spanning hundreds of repositories, which helped a medical-device software startup pass UK and EU regulatory audits, plus reporting tools that cut weeks from analysts' equipment reviews.

• 2024

  Aphico, Founder

  Took a marketplace from idea to launch on my own: set up the Portuguese company, registered EU trademarks, sourced suppliers, and built the platform in Clojure on Cloudflare Workers.

• 2023–2024

  HEAL Security, Chief Technology Officer

  Led an 11-person team building a healthcare cybersecurity intelligence platform on a knowledge graph; Health2047 portfolio company; took part in board reporting and fundraising.

• 2022–2023

  Commsor, Head of Engineering

  Cut core query times from 4 minutes to 100 ms through a Datomic redesign, on a CRM of 15M+ community records; led an 8-person team; led SOC 2.

• 2020–2021

  Pitch, Senior Software Engineer

  Designed the "Effective System", the transaction framework that became core backend infrastructure; built video recording for presentations; real-time collaboration and offline sync (CRDTs).

• 2018–2020

  Fy!, Senior Engineer, then Consumer Product Engineering Lead

  Rebuilt the web and iOS products around query-driven rendering (Clojure, Datomic, EQL), and introduced monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana. The rendering approach later became the open-source library pour.

• 2016–2018

  Zalando, Senior Software Engineer

  As a member of the Pathfinder team, operated and extended the composition and routing layer of the Fashion Store. Co-architected the "Next Gen" Fashion Store architecture in a cross-departmental project with IDEO. Its entity-and-renderer model anticipated the concepts behind Zalando's later Rendering Engine and Interface Framework, which still power the store today.

• 2015–2016

  AKQA, Principal Web Developer

  Full-stack builds for clients including Rolls-Royce, Nike and Jägermeister.

• 2013–2015

  Delivery Hero, Frontend Development Lead

  Led the isomorphic Node.js rebuild of the international frontend in 2013, on a server-and-client rendering framework built with the team. It stayed live until 2019. Also built a white-label platform for some 20,000 restaurants.