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Designing an AI maturity strategy
Moving a whole engineering department from individual AI tool use to a shared, measurable and sustainable way of working.
Projects
Things I've built and led
Case studies from my experience.
Each one follows the same path: context → challenge → approach → outcome → what I learned.
AI engineering & adoption
Strategy, context engineering, agentic AI and teaching
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Building a context foundation for AI
A shared source of truth for engineering and product, written for people and AI tools alike, that saved tens of hours.
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Teaching AI to non-technical teams
Seminars and one-to-one sessions that helped colleagues from every department use AI with confidence.
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AI skills for security forensics
Two AI skills that help security investigations, one that profiles attacker patterns in IP logs and one that builds the timeline auditors need.
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An AI skill for on-call debugging
An AI skill that turns an error link into a likely cause, a proposed fix and a Slack update, now part of on-call training.
Leadership
Hiring, mentoring, onboarding, processes and culture
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Redesigning a tech hiring process
Building fair, structured interview processes for data teams, from the role definition to the interview loop to coaching the interviewers.
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Mentoring engineers into management
Coaching engineers at different levels of seniority, and first-time engineering manager, on both their careers and their skills.
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Lean processes teams actually keep
Three light processes, a decision log, status updates and a retro format, that made a data team calmer and faster.
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Building a team culture from the inside
Starting a small culture group in a remote organization, and helping colleagues lead team events of their own.
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Halving onboarding time with a buddy program
A structured buddy onboarding that helped new data engineers feel welcomed and become productive twice as fast.
Data Engineering & Analytics
Platforms, pipelines, costs, analytics and automation
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Marketing data pipelines from social media
Production pipelines that ingest and model marketing data from social media APIs, feeding dashboards used by teams across two large companies.
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Cutting data costs without losing trust
Leading a cost taskforce and a leadership workshop that cut data warehouse spend by about a quarter.
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Building a data platform from scratch
Designing a cloud-native data platform end to end, from the target architecture to the warehouse, and the team to run it.
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Spend transparency and savings measurement
Leading a team of three that built a contract management and savings measurement solution for a leading European food company, cutting time and costs sevenfold.
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Automating due diligence
Leading a team of five that built an analytics suite for deal advisors, turning weeks of due diligence work into hours.
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Automating cybersecurity risk assessments
Leading a team of four that automated cybersecurity risk assessments for SAP HANA systems, reducing effort from weeks to hours.