This list outlines my core capabilities. I will work with you to find a suitable way to help your team and your organisation. Please feel welcome to contact me even if your specific need is not explicitly listed.
Services
Free Cloud Cost Audit (1-hour conversation)
A no-obligation 1-hour session to identify immediate cost-saving opportunities in your cloud infrastructure. We'll review your current spend, highlight inefficiencies, and outline quick wins.
Free Database Architecture & Performance Review (1-hour conversation)
A 1-hour deep dive into your database architecture. We'll assess performance bottlenecks, scalability risks, and provide actionable recommendations.
Technical Auditing
Audit your data infrastructure to uncover structural risks, scaling limitations, and modernisation opportunities. Deliverables include a strategic report and a prioritised roadmap.
FinOps & Cloud Cost Optimization
Reduce your cloud spend through rightsizing, reserved instances, and cost-awareness training. I'll help you implement FinOps best practices to achieve measurable savings.
Infrastructure as Code & Automation
Design, build, and maintain bespoke Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform, Ansible, Python, or Bash. I'll recommend tools tailored to your team's maturity and goals.
Optimisation and Capacity Planning
Leverage empirical data and infrastructure audits to propose, plan, and execute initiatives that elevate performance, eliminate operational risk, and optimise cloud expenditures.
Architectural Modernisation
Restructure legacy data infrastructure using modern engineering best practices. Tailored to unblock your organisation's velocity and future scale.
High-Stakes Migrations and Deployments
Plan, automate, and execute complex data migrations and deployments at scale. Eliminate service interruptions and mitigate architectural risk.
Incident Response & Management
Improve your incident response with on-call support, incident command training, and blameless postmortems. Reduce Mean-Time-To-Recovery (MTTR) and build a culture of reliability.
Disaster Recovery & High Availability
Design and implement disaster recovery strategies, failover testing, and multi-region deployments to ensure high availability for critical systems.
Database Performance Tuning
Optimise query performance, indexing strategies, and database configurations for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Aurora. Achieve faster response times and reduced resource usage.
Data Modelling & Schema Design
Design scalable and efficient data models for relational and NoSQL databases. Ensure your schemas support performance, scalability, and maintainability.
Monitoring & Observability Solutions
Implement end-to-end monitoring stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog) with SLIs, SLOs, and actionable alerting. Gain visibility into performance and reliability.
Security & Compliance Auditing
Assess your database security posture and implement compliance controls (GDPR, SOC2, FedRAMP). Secure your data with encryption, IAM policies, and audit logging.
Team Enablement & Embedded Mentoring
Deliver custom training sessions, create technical documentation (ADRs, runbooks, wikis), and embed myself into your engineering teams to conduct data-centric architecture reviews and instil a modern DBRE mindset.
Team Culture, Practices, and Delivery
Adjust and evolve your team's delivery workflows, agile practices, and Scrum/Kanban processes. Improve predictability, execution speed, and psychological safety through tailored workshops and coaching.
Strategic Technical Advisory
Advise technology leaders and C-level executives on high-impact architectural decisions, vendor selection, and tool evaluation. Leverage my industry experience, research, and global network of engineering contacts to avoid costly mistakes.
Continuous Improvement (Kaizen) Programs
Facilitate Kaizen initiatives, retrospectives, and metric-driven process refinements. Foster a culture of continuous improvement and operational excellence.
Fractional Data Infrastructure Leadership
Step in as a part-time or interim technical leader to scale your data strategy, structure your infrastructure teams, and establish Centers of Excellence. Get executive-level expertise without the overhead.