AI & Cybersecurity Engineer

Building systems that make intelligence useful

I write about design paterns and architectures at the intersection of AI and cybersecurity, focusing on what actually works to build products from first prototype to production scale.

CurrentlyFounder @ Systemic Labs
PreviouslyAssociate Director @ S-RM
LocationLondon
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Design Patterns for Startup Engineering

Four frameworks for building products that survive contact with reality

After spending the past year validating and building a dozen product ideas, I've distilled what actually matters into four interconnected frameworks. Each addresses a different phase of the journey from concept to scale.

Stack 01

The Validation Stack

Product Ideation & Validation

How to identify problems worth solving, validate demand before building, and design experiments that give you real signal in weeks, not months.

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Stack 02

The Neural Stack

Data & Indexing

The unsexy infrastructure that determines whether your AI product is magical or mediocre. Embeddings, retrieval, knowledge graphs, and the art of semantic search.

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Stack 03

The Engineering Stack

AI Development

Prompt engineering that scales, evaluation frameworks that catch regressions, and deployment patterns for systems where "it works on my machine" means nothing.

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Stack 04

The GTM Stack

Sales & Marketing

Distribution strategies for AI products, pricing models that capture value, and the counterintuitive truth about selling technology that feels like magic.

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Career

After a decade working on the front-lines of cybersecurity across all manner of roles, I've seen firsthand how important resilience is to the global economy, and what a struggle it is to achieve. I'm building tools that help cybersecurity experts scale their knowledge, deliver value faster, and target the most critical threats.

Apr 2025 — Present

Founder

Systemic LabsLondon

Developing a range of AI-powered tools designed to scale vendor cybersecurity capabilities, discover upsell opportunities, and deliver strategic insights faster.

AI/MLProduct DevelopmentSales Enablement
Jun 2018 — Apr 2025

Associate Director

S-RMLondon

Led incident response engagements and built operational resilience programs for organisations under severe threat. Coordinated multi-national response operations and implemented cutting-edge cyber intelligence programmes. Founding member of S-RM's IR team, now the largest dedicated provider in the UK.

Incident ResponseTeam LeadershipCrisis Management
2012 — 2016

BA, History & English Literature

Victoria University of WellingtonNew Zealand

Double Major with First Class Honours in English Literature. Developed critical thinking and research skills that would later prove essential for communicating complex technical concepts and bridging the gap between technical and non-technical stakeholders.

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