Engineering Manager with 20+ years building AI platforms, cloud-native systems, and distributed infrastructure at scale — across fintech, retail-tech, and SaaS.
Currently at Tesco leading a cross-functional team delivering AI-powered simulation and decision support platforms that generated multi million pounds in business savings.
- LLM cost optimisation — proxy gateways, model routing, ensemble classifiers
- AI / Agentic platforms — LangGraph workflows, RAG pipelines, OpenAI APIs
- Cloud-native infrastructure — Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS / GCP / Azure
- High-throughput distributed systems — payments, retail-tech, fintech at scale
FastAPI proxy that classifies every LLM request by complexity and routes it to the most cost-effective model tier automatically.
Simple requests → Haiku ($5/M tokens)
Moderate requests → Sonnet ($15/M tokens)
Complex requests → Opus ($25/M tokens)
- 90% routing accuracy on a 40-prompt diverse test set
- 54% cost reduction vs sending all requests to Opus
- ~$49K/year estimated saving at 100K requests/day
- Built with: Python · FastAPI · tiktoken · SQLite
| Company | Role | Impact |
|---|---|---|
| Tesco | Software Development Manager | Multi Million Pounds savings · 30% support reduction via agentic AI |
| JP Morgan Chase | VP Digital Payments | $100M+/day · 80M customers · 99.99% uptime |
| Intuit | Senior Manager, Mint Platform | 50M users migrated · ~$100K/month infra savings |
| Bukuwarung | Tech Lead Manager | Resolution time days → minutes · 7M+ users |
| Envestnet | Senior Manager | Bugs reduced 20/month → 5/month |
Languages: Python · Java · TypeScript · GoLang
AI / ML: LLMs · Agentic AI · RAG · LangGraph · OpenAI APIs
Cloud: AWS · GCP · Azure · Kubernetes · Terraform · Docker
Data: Kafka · PostgreSQL · Redis · Spark · Elasticsearch
Practices: DORA Metrics · CI/CD · DevOps · Incident Management
- Professional Certificate in Agentic AI & Applications — IITM Pravartak
- Building AI Agents with RAG and LangChain — IBM
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner — AWS
- PG Program in Cloud Computing — Great Lakes Executive Learning