Software leadership across the UK and India.
I work between the UK and India, and I've led software teams in both, including distributed teams across the UK and Ghana. Today I lead the engineering team behind lending decisions at Zopa Bank and I'm co-founder and CTO of Leora.
For UK and European companies, I set up and lead your own software team in India: hire the engineers, set the architecture and standards from day one, run the delivery cadence, and report to you in plain English.
For Indian product companies selling to UK and European enterprises, I review what you have built against what their buyers will check, help you close the gaps that stall deals, and sit in the room when it matters.
Experience
- Zopa BankEngineering Manager, lending decisioning
- Jaguar Land Rover and Tata MotorsLed an offshore team of 15 to 20 in Bengaluru
- MonterosaEngineering Manager, 14 engineers across three teams
- GB GroupHead of Integrations
- Leora GroupCo-founder and CTO
- Institution of Engineering and TechnologyChartered Engineer
Who I work with
Two sides of the same problem: engineering in one country, the people it has to convince in another.
UK and European companies that want their own software team in India
- The problem
- You want the cost and depth of engineering in India without the agency lottery: a team that is yours, that you can see, and that builds to standards an enterprise customer or an investor's due diligence will accept. You don't have anyone who has done it before, and you can't be there to do it yourself.
- What I do
- I set the team up and lead it. I hire the engineers, set the architecture and standards from day one, run the delivery cadence, and report to you in plain English. I'm in India when the team needs me in the room and on UK hours for you and your leadership team. If you already have an agency, the audit tells you honestly what you're getting and whether a team of your own is the answer.
Indian product companies selling to the UK and Europe
- The problem
- Your product works and your engineers are strong, but UK and European enterprise deals stall in procurement. Security questionnaires, GDPR, SOC 2 and ISO 27001 expectations, architecture reviews and design conventions that differ from the markets you have sold into so far. None of it is about the quality of your engineering. It is about knowing what a buyer in London will ask before they ask it.
- What I do
- I review your architecture and security posture against what UK and EU enterprise buyers actually check, work with your team to close the gaps, and join the sales and investor conversations where having someone on your side who has spent fifteen years inside UK companies changes the answer.
How I can help
Three ways to work together, each priced on scope rather than hours. The audit is the usual place to start: fixed fee, ten days, and a written report you can act on with or without me. Every engagement starts with a free 30-minute call.
Offshore software audit
A ten-day independent review of the software team or agency you already have in India. I read the code, the pipelines and the backlog, sit with the engineers, and tell you in plain English what you're getting for your money, held to the standard an enterprise customer or an investor's due diligence will check you against.
- Who it is for
- UK and European founders, boards and investors with an agency or a team in India who want a view they can trust before the next release, the next contract renewal or the next funding round.
- What you get
- A written report covering code quality, pipeline maturity, technical debt, team velocity and security and compliance gaps, every finding ranked by risk, with a clear recommendation: keep them, fix the contract, or build a team of your own.
- How it runs
- Fixed fee, ten working days
Build and lead your team in India
I set up your own software team in India and lead it as your part-time CTO. I define the roles, hire the engineers, set the architecture and standards before the first line of code, and run the delivery cadence. The team is yours, not an agency's.
- Who it is for
- UK and European startups and scale-ups that want engineering in India they can own, and companies replacing an agency with a team.
- What you get
- A hired, working team; architecture and written standards it builds to from day one; a weekly architecture session and a fortnightly update for your leadership team; and technical decisions you can explain to your investors and your customers.
- How it runs
- Fixed-scope setup, then a monthly retainer of one to two days a week
Enterprise readiness review
For Indian product companies selling to UK and European enterprises. I review your platform against what their procurement, security and architecture teams actually check, from GDPR and SOC 2 to how the system scales and how the product looks to a buyer in London, and then help you close the gaps and win the deal.
- Who it is for
- Indian B2B software and deep-tech companies with enterprise buyers in the UK and Europe, and the investors backing them.
- What you get
- A gap report ranked by what blocks deals, technical sales collateral your buyers will believe, and a technical leader who knows UK buyers beside you in the conversations that decide the deal.
- How it runs
- Fixed-fee review, then an advisory retainer
Leora
Proof I hold myself to the standards I set for a team. 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 use AI
The rules I write for AI are the rules I set for a team in another country: architecture first, standards written down, nothing shipped unproven.
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, including developers working from Ghana, 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 the engineering team behind lending decisions 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 software teams in location data, fan engagement, media and fintech. Today I lead the engineering team behind lending decisions at Zopa, across personal loans and car finance.
I've led software teams on both sides of the UK and India relationship. In Bengaluru I led an offshore team of 15 to 20 engineers for Jaguar Land Rover and Tata Motors, and learned where remote delivery leaks: specifications nobody pinned down, standards nobody wrote down, and a head office that only hears about a problem once it is expensive. In the UK I've led 14 engineers across three teams, part of them working from Ghana, so running a distributed team on plain, written standards is a habit, not a theory. As a co-founder I handle the technical side of every investor and customer conversation.
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 to the team in India and my afternoons overlap with the UK working day. Leora, my own company's app, is where I hold myself to the standards I ask of a team: one engineer, a complete production platform.
- 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
Where our working days overlap
London22:38
India04:08
Tell me about your engineering team.
A 30-minute call is free and there is nothing to prepare. Tell me where your engineers sit and who they have to convince, and you will leave with at least one useful thing to do next, whether or not we work together.