Acquisition
Scaling a SaaS engineering organisation during acquisition and integration — restructuring distributed teams and aligning delivery across territories.
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Technical Leadership & Governance
Fractional and project-based engagements for scale-ups, investors, and leadership teams facing transformation, integration, or platform modernisation — high-impact architectural oversight without open-ended consultancy.
Services
Consulting Services
Targeted support for scale-ups navigating growth, platform change, and acquisition — scoped work with a clear start and finish.
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Cloud Transformation
Azure cloud-native transformation — estate design, migration, and operational governance balanced with the velocity scale-ups need. Solution architecture that simplifies without sacrificing capability.
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SaaS Platform Modernisation
Architectural simplification, technical debt remediation, and legacy platform migration. Stabilising and modernising SaaS estates so teams can scale delivery with confidence.
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M&A Integration & Scale-Up
Post-acquisition technical integration, engineering organisation scaling, and technical due diligence for investment or exit. Aligning platforms, teams, and delivery through growth inflection points.
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Problems solved
Where You Need Help
Scale-ups hit predictable fracture points during growth, acquisition, and platform transformation. I target the architectural and delivery weaknesses that stall momentum, inflate cost, and erode investor or customer confidence.
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Acquisition & Integration
Engineering organisations and platforms under pressure during M&A, investment, or exit. Integrating systems, aligning teams, and establishing technical direction when the stakes are highest.
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SaaS Platform Complexity
Platforms that outgrew their architecture. Accumulated technical debt, over-engineered systems, and complexity that slows feature delivery. Architectural simplification before you scale further.
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Delivery Maturity Gaps
Deployment friction, unreliable releases, and DevOps practices that haven't kept pace with growth. Improving delivery confidence without imposing heavyweight process.
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Scale-Up Delivery Strain
Engineering teams and platforms that worked at one stage of growth breaking at the next. Restructuring architecture, DevOps practice, and team design to match commercial ambition — without heavyweight process.
Approach
How I Work With You
A straightforward engagement model. Diagnose, prioritise, execute, and transfer — so improvements stick after I leave.
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Diagnose
Deep-dive audit of architecture, delivery velocity, and organisational structure.
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Prioritise
Ruthless triage of risk. Identify the 20% of work that unlocks 80% of value.
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Execute
Hands-on intervention alongside your teams. No slide decks without delivery.
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Transfer
Embed governance and capability so improvements persist after engagement.
Track record
Representative Work
Recent engagements across acquisition, modernisation, and growth-stage transformation scenarios.
Modernisation
Leading cloud-native modernisation of a regulated insurance platform, balancing operational governance with delivery velocity.
DevOps
Driving DevOps maturity improvements that reduced deployment friction and improved release confidence across engineering teams.
Due diligence
Supporting technical due diligence for growth-stage investment and exit scenarios, including post-acquisition integration planning.
Contact
Discuss a Consulting Engagement
Fractional or project-based support for cloud transformation, platform modernisation, and M&A integration — handled directly under strict confidentiality.
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