Regulated platforms • Revenue-critical systems • Stability-first leadership

I stabilise and scale betting and finance platforms
so boards, regulators, and customers trust the tech.

CTO with 15+ years leading fintech, gaming & sports betting technology, including platforms processing millions of transactions per day (PokerStars), millions of transactions per week (RAS) and launched Island's first ever digital bank in regulated environments.

What you get
  • Founder system stabilisation: make undocumented platforms operable, supportable, and transferable.
  • Operational maturity: RACI, incident management, on-call, change control, audit-friendly governance.
  • Commercial & risk alignment: translate technical risk into business outcomes (revenue, margin, compliance).
  • Delivery predictability: clearer ownership, fewer surprises, better cross-team decision-making.
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staff led across AU + Sri Lanka (Racing & Sports)
$1.5M+
cost savings via localisation tooling (PokerStars)
AUD $1.7M+
cost savings via multi cloud solution (Racing & Sports)
AWSTypeScriptPython KubernetesServerlessObservability Incident MgmtGovernance / Audit

How I help

When you need someone to come in and help stabilise, professionalise, or deliver complex systems in regulated environments.

Stabilise

Turn “fragile & founder-built” into supportable

Reduce key-person risk, document critical flows, introduce operational guardrails, and calm production.

RCA / postmortemsSupport tiersRunbooks
Professionalise

Board / regulator-ready governance

Accountability models, incident governance, risk reporting, security posture improvements, audit alignment.

RACIChange controlRisk register
Deliver

Ship outcomes without chaos

Clear ownership, predictable delivery, and pragmatic process—enough structure to reduce risk, not slow you down.

Platform resilienceObservabilityRoadmaps

Free 30-minute Platform Risk Review

I’ll identify where your platform is most likely to fail under pressure, where risk is building, and what I would fix first.

What we look at

  • Incident load and operational noise
  • On-call pain and escalation gaps
  • Ownership ambiguity and delivery friction
  • Hidden technical and regulatory risk

What you get

  • Clear diagnosis of your highest-risk areas
  • What will break first under pressure
  • Practical first steps to stabilise
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Case studies

Problem → approach → measurable impact.

NFL simulation & pricing platform

Real-time • Production
Problem Broadcaster needed higher-quality, telemetry-driven odds and derived markets from live NFL data feeds.
What I did Designed & Built simulation engines, pipelines, and cloud-native services with explicit SLOs, observability, and cost controls.
Impact Launched live in-play odds and probabilities system on ESPN during the 2025 NFL season.
Outcome highlights The system I designed launched live in-play probabilities and markets on ESPN during 2025 NFL season.
Example
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AWSTypeScriptPython ML toolingLive data

Virtual American football

Simulation • Data • Betting platform
Problem The client needed a realistic virtual American football sports game, but lacked the knowledge and underlying data to build it.
What I did Designed & Built a simulation platform using real NFL and college football data, running 2M+ simulated games to generate realistic outcomes and telemetry, packaged for straightforward integration into the client’s product.
Impact Virtual American football game scheduled for launch into casinos across the US during 2026.
Simulation Data engineering 2M+ games Integration US casinos

Regulated wagering ops maturity uplift

Ops • Governance
Problem Production incidents + unclear ownership. Audit expectations rising. Delivery slowed by ambiguity.
What I did Introduced RACI, incident governance, on-call tiers, escalation, and exec-facing risk reporting.
Impact ↓ incident MTTR by 90% • ↑ delivery predictability • earlier exec visibility of material risk.
Incident MgmtSupport modelRisk reporting

Embedded betting launch (UK)

Delivery • Client alignment
Problem Pre-launch issues threatened go-live of a new embedded sportsbook product.
What I did Synced with the client to align all delivery teams on scope, dependencies, and “go/no-go” criteria, driving a single execution plan to remove last-mile ambiguity.
Impact New sports betting product launched into the UK market.
Program delivery Stakeholder alignment Go-live readiness Regulated market

Experience

I have walked the walk in complex, regulated and fast moving environments.

Chief Technology Officer — Racing and Sports

2025–Feb 26 • AU / International

Executive owner of engineering, cloud, security, and production operations in a multi-jurisdictional regulated wagering business.

  • ASX listed company with revenues of AUD $21m, growing 31% YoY (FY24–FY25).
  • Led ~46 staff across AU + Sri Lanka.
  • Responsible for governance, risk management and budget for all IT functions.
  • Launched BetBridge Embedded Betting Solution into UK market.
  • White label "Wagering360" platform stabilised and launched new clients.
  • Reduced managed trading software performance incidents from 10 per week to zero over last 2 months.
  • Spearheaded migration from AWS to Oracle in Hybrid Cloud Environment, projected to save AUD $1.7m+ over three years
  • Implemented modernized operating models and escalation frameworks aligned to listed-company expectations.
  • Improved incident response, governance, and executive visibility of material technical risk.

Chief Technology Officer — Adrenaline

2023–2025 • US / UK

Led technology, data, and product strategy for NFL-centric sports betting products in regulated US markets.

  • Launched NFL live probabilities on ESPN during 2025 NFL season
  • Built next-gen odds/personalisation products contributing to >10% uplift in GGR during trials.
  • Cloud-native services in AWS using TypeScript/Python; leveraged ML tooling (e.g., SageMaker).
  • Participated in fundraising and investor discussions supporting product expansion.

IT & Development Manager — Capital International Bank

2021–2023 • Isle of Man

Senior hands-on leader delivering secure, regulated banking platforms for e-gaming and corporate services clients.

  • The first banking license granted for 20+ years on Isle of Man
  • Launch of first ever digital bank on the Isle of Man.
  • Managed the bank platform and team responsible for maintenance and feature development.
  • Reduced operational issues by 25% in one year through proactive investigation and platform stabilisation.
  • Delivered FATCA/AML reporting, risk pre-screening tooling, and platform enhancements.
  • Stack: Laravel/PHP, .NET, Angular, Azure/Kubernetes.

Director & Head of Sports Operations — Champion Tech

2018–2020 • Isle of Man / International

Co-founder exec for a B2B sportsbook provider: product delivery, certification, and live operations.

  • Built and launched Asia facing SportsBook in Tier 1 regulated environment.
  • Built internal operational tooling: real-time bet monitoring and regulatory reporting.
  • Close collaboration with regulators and outsourced service providers.

CMS Infrastructure & Development Manager — PokerStars

2010–2016 • Isle of Man / International

Led global CMS platform delivery across 8 licences and 26 languages across poker/casino/sportsbook/live events.

  • Designed localisation tooling reducing translation/update cost of ownership by $1.5m over 3 years.
  • Managed websites across 26 languages and 8+ regulated jurisdictions.
  • Supported major launches and migrations across regulated markets.

Various Software Engineering Roles - Junior -> Lead

1996-2010

Started off at junior level, increasing responsibilities and becoming lead developer by early 2000.

  • Further details available on request
  • Variety of programming languages / databases / platforms.

Writing

Selected writing on operations, leadership, and scaling regulated systems.

Modelling

The Rarest Score in the NFL: 2–0

If you’re building or analysing a sports simulation system, there’s an important principle that often gets overlooked: Just because something is extremely unlikely doesn’t mean it’s impossible. And in the NFL, nothing illustrates that better than the 2–0 final score.

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Operations

Lessons for Engineering Leaders

Things engineering leaders get wrong (and I’ve definitely got wrong at least once) #374

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Work with me

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Get in touch

For CTO / VP Engineering roles, advisory, due diligence, platform stabilisation, or incident/ops maturity programs.

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What I’m looking for

  • Regulated businesses in gambling or fintech that need stability at scale, while still driving innovation and measurable business value.
  • Founder-to-operator transitions; PE-backed scale-ups; pre-exit stabilisation.
  • Regulated platforms: uptime, compliance, operational credibility are non-negotiable.
  • Stability first, then growth: remove chaos, establish control, then accelerate.
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