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Professional Summary
A highly accomplished and hands-on technology leader with over 20 years of experience architecting and delivering transformative AI, DevSecOps, and cloud solutions for the world's leading financial, insurance, and enterprise organizations. I excel at bridging the gap between C-suite vision and engineering execution, building high-performing teams, and designing future-proof platforms that are secure, scalable, and intelligent by default. My leadership is rooted in a passion for purposeful innovation, fostering a culture of experimentation and continuous learning to solve complex business challenges.
Key Achievements
- Delivered £100k+ in annual savings by re-architecting costly, persistent cloud infrastructure into an intelligent, on-demand resource model.
- Architected and deployed secure agentic AI applications for finance and insurance, ensuring full compliance with stringent NIST, ISO27001, and SOC standards.
- Led the design of secure, multi-region platforms on Azure and GCP, enabling high availability and disaster recovery for mission-critical enterprise workloads.
- Pioneered keyless authentication strategies in regulated cloud environments, eliminating secrets management risks and significantly enhancing enterprise security posture.
- Successfully presented AI innovation roadmaps to C-suite stakeholders, influencing enterprise-level investment and strategic direction at major global firms.
Marquee Engagements & Experience
Director & Principal Consultant | Samokash Ltd
Apr 2023 – Present
Engaged by leading global firms to architect and deliver strategic AI, Cloud, and DevSecOps initiatives. Notable direct client engagements include:
- Principal AI & Cloud Technical Solutions Architect (Contract) | Legal & General (UK & America)
- Principal DevSecOps Technical Solutions Architect (Contract) | Euroclear
- Principal DevSecOps & AI Technical Solutions Architect (Contract) | Pret
- Principal AI Strategist (Contract) | Chase
Senior DevOps Engineer (AI/ML & DevSecOps) | London Stock Exchange
Aug 2022 – Apr 2023
DevSecOps Lead (AI/ML Integration) | Allianz UK
Mar 2022 – Aug 2022
Head of DevOps (Blockchain & AI Model Ops) | EY (Insurwave)
Mar 2018 – Jun 2020
Key Projects
Local AI Model for Insurance Underwriting
Architected and led the development of an internal, air-gapped AI system using a fine-tuned Llama 3 model to analyze proprietary medical data for risk assessment. Enhanced underwriting accuracy, accelerated processing, and ensured full data sovereignty and compliance.
AI Risk Guard for Financial Services
Designed a hybrid AI safety system to act as a firewall for LLM outputs, mitigating risks of hallucination and bias. Enabled the safe adoption of generative AI for underwriting and customer service use cases.
Keyless Authentication & Secretless CI/CD for GCP
Deployed a fully keyless access solution for Google Cloud using Workload Identity Federation, eliminating secrets management risks and reducing operational overhead.
Multi-Region Cloud Platform (Azure + GCP)
Led the design of scalable landing zones using Terraform and policy-as-code (OPA), accelerating application onboarding by 40% and ensuring business continuity.
Previous Foundational Experience
Bank of America – Project Lead / DevOps Engineer | Apr 2016 – Sep 2017
Commerzbank (London) – Infrastructure Consultant | Jan 2016 – Apr 2016
CLOSE BROTHERS GROUP (London) – Infrastructure, Security Consultant | Jan 2015 – Jan 2016
MARKIT GROUP LTD – AVP DevOps, WinOps | Jul 2012 – Dec 2014
CAPITA IT SERVICES - Windows Technical Lead/Deputy Team Leader | Jan 2008 – Jul 2012
Microsoft (India) – EMEA Server Support/Operations | Mar 2002 – Mar 2004
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