on generative AI, agentic systems, and enterprise-scale delivery.
I’ve spent 20+ years leading large-scale technology transformation across financial services and other regulated industries — setting architecture direction, engineering standards, and running delivery teams across the UK and India. I’m a three-time Microsoft FastTrack Solution Architect for Customer Engagement, and twice recognised for Power Platform and Copilot Studio. Today I focus on building AI-enabled business applications — using Copilot Studio, agents, and orchestration — that hold up to enterprise-grade security, compliance, and scale.
read something that survives past line 100.
Markdown is having a midlife crisis.
An Anthropic engineer tried to kill Markdown. Andrej Karpathy agreed with him in public. Here’s what four formats of the same architecture diagram taught me about it.
Hide the recipe, or hand out the cookbook?
Coca-Cola locks its formula in a vault. Linux runs the internet because people gave the code away. Both strategies work — so which one is actually right?
a staged hardware plan for learning AI part-time.
Four stages, £0 to £9,000, matching hardware spend to what you’re actually ready to learn — paced for evenings and weekends alongside a full-time job.