Director of Engineering
Building systems, teams, and organizations that adapt to change.
Engineering leader with ~20 years building products, platforms, and teams, now focused on what it takes to make AI trustworthy inside regulated engineering organisations. I build the structures for that: governance, semantic layers, and the developer tooling that lets teams move fast and stay auditable. Recently that meant a shared ontology across two merged banks' financial data, and an AI developer platform my guilds built, the bank then adopted to scale. My method: find the constraint that hurts most, build the smallest version that proves the idea, hand it off once it works. I think in systems, with deep care about the humans who are part of them.
Wealthsimple, Wave, CBC / Radio-Canada, Canadian Digital Service, Vodafone NZ, Global TV, Vancity
Foundations
Kosovo
Origin. The first principles everything else is built on.
Translation
Middle East
Old systems, new layers. The work is always in the crossing.
Adaptation
New Zealand
The volcano doesn't ask permission. Neither does growth.
Ownership
Canada
This is where I chose to stay. Building for the ones who come after.
Over the last year I’ve watched two different approaches to AI adoption play out inside a regulated financial institution.
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