I build products.
I design and build the whole product myself: the iPhone and Android apps, the admin console and the platform underneath. Leora, my own company's app, went from first commit to the App Store in four months and cost £1,500 to build. If an agency is already building yours, I'll tell you what you've really paid for. After launch, I stay on as your technical lead. I ship fast with AI and stand behind every line.
Where our working days overlap
London19:24
India23:54
Experience
- Zopa BankEngineering Manager, lending decisioning
- Leora GroupCo-founder and CTO
- MonterosaEngineering Manager
- GB GroupHead of Integrations
- Jaguar Land Rover and Tata MotorsSystems engineering
- Institution of Engineering and TechnologyChartered Engineer
Leora
A case study from the company I co-founded. Visit Leora
A production dating platform, designed and built by one engineer.
- from first commit to the App Store
- 4 months
- to build, from first commit to launch
- £1,500
- a month to run in production
- £250
- engineer, from design to production
- 1
Leora is an identity-verified dating app from Leora Group, the company I co-founded. I designed and built all of it: native iPhone and Android apps, a web admin console with moderation tools, and the platform underneath.
That platform is 16 independently deployed services on AWS that talk through events, not to each other, so any one can change without breaking the rest. Every service is defined in code and tested in its own pipeline. Each release lands in a development environment first, passes tests across services, and only then is promoted to production.
AI wrote much of the code, held to standards I wrote first. Each repository carries its own rules for the AI to follow, backed by a shared library of engineering, design and architecture standards. The speed came from AI. The fact that it holds together came from fifteen years of systems engineering. Four months from first commit to the App Store, £1,500 to build, and £250 a month to run. For comparison, a fellow founder spent £60,000 building their app with an offshore agency.
Members pass a biometric identity check before they can match. Subscriptions work across the App Store, Google Play and the web from one source of truth. Leora is live on the App Store and Google Play.
What I built it with
- Swift 6 and SwiftUI
- Kotlin and Jetpack Compose
- React admin console and shared component library
- Event-driven services on AWS Lambda, EventBridge, DynamoDB and SQS
- Infrastructure as code with AWS CDK
- Development to production promotion with tests across services
- Biometric identity verification
- AI-assisted delivery against written standards
How I can help
Three ways to work together, each priced on scope rather than hours. Every engagement starts with a free 30-minute call.
Technical audit
Find out what you've really paid for. An independent review of your codebase, your agency or your technology choices, held to the standard an investor's due diligence will check you against.
- Who it is for
- Founders who are not technical and have an agency or freelancer building their product, and startups preparing for investor due diligence.
- What you get
- A written report with every finding ranked by risk, a practical plan to fix them, and a call to walk you through it.
- How it runs
- Fixed fee, one to two weeks
Idea to launch
From idea to the App Store, built the way I built Leora: fast, and on foundations made to stand up to investor due diligence.
- Who it is for
- Pre-seed and seed founders without a technical co-founder, and established businesses starting a new digital product.
- What you get
- A launched product, the infrastructure it runs on, and documentation a future team can pick up on day one.
- How it runs
- Fixed-scope phases, typically six to twelve weeks
After launch
Once your product is live, I stay on as your part-time technical lead, the role often called a fractional CTO. Roadmap, architecture, and the technical side of every investor and customer conversation. When the product needs a team, I hire it and set it up, in the UK or India. I've led engineering teams in both countries: 14 engineers across three teams in the UK at Monterosa, and 15 to 20 in Bengaluru (Bangalore) for Jaguar Land Rover and Tata Motors.
- Who it is for
- Founders whose product I have built or audited, and funded startups that do not yet need a full-time CTO.
- What you get
- Technical decisions you can defend to a board, and a team that knows exactly what to build next.
- How it runs
- Monthly retainer, one to two days a week
How I use AI
AI lets one engineer do the work of a team. Systems engineering is what makes that safe to ship.
Architecture first, then acceleration
I design the system: the services, the boundaries between them, the data and the ways it can fail. AI builds inside those lines, never across them.
Standards written before code
Every repository carries written rules the AI must follow, backed by shared standards for code quality, design and architecture. The first draft already matches the house style.
Nothing ships unproven
Typed code, automated tests and infrastructure as code in every service. Changes go to a development environment first, pass tests across services, and only then reach production.
Fifteen years of engineering
From cars to location data, fan engagement and fintech, then my own company.
2011 to 2019
Jaguar Land Rover and Tata Motors
Systems engineering
Led specification and systems design for a multi-modal speech recognition platform, and spent five months in Bengaluru (Bangalore) leading an offshore development team of 15 to 20 engineers.
2019 to 2021
GB Group
Head of Integrations
Led nine engineers and designed event-driven microservices on Kubernetes for Loqate, GBG's address verification and location data platform.
2021 to 2025
Monterosa
Engineering Lead, then Engineering Manager
Led three cross-functional teams of 14 engineers building fan engagement web and native apps while the business grew five-fold. Built tooling that gave every developer back three to four hours a week.
2025 to now
Leora Group
Co-founder and CTO
Designed and built the entire Leora platform: native apps, admin tools and 16 cloud services.
2026 to now
Zopa Bank
Engineering Manager
Lead engineering for the decisioning technology behind lending at Zopa, the UK's leading unsecured personal loan provider, across personal loans and car finance.
About me
I trained as a systems engineer in automotive, at Jaguar Land Rover and Tata Motors, where a specification is a promise and every failure mode is thought through before anything is built. I brought that habit into software, building platforms and leading engineering teams in location data, fan engagement, media and fintech. Today I lead the decisioning technology behind Zopa's personal loans and car finance.
Leora showed what that discipline is worth with AI in the loop: one engineer, a complete production platform. That is what I bring to founders. Senior judgement and hands-on delivery, without the cost of a large team.
I work between the UK and India, remotely day to day and in person when it matters. India runs on one clock, so my mornings go on focused building and my afternoons overlap with the UK working day. When a product needs a team around it, I have led engineering teams in both countries.
- Chartered Engineer, Institution of Engineering and Technology
- MEng Electronic Engineering, University of Exeter
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
- Speaker, AI Futures Day 2026, Manchester Digital Skills Festival
Tell me what you're building.
A 30-minute call is free and there is nothing to prepare. You will leave with at least one useful thing to do next, whether or not we work together.