Engineering outcomes that create enterprise value.

Case studies that reflect the real challenges of modern enterprises: scaling platforms, modernising legacy estates, deploying AI responsibly, and engineering systems that support long-term strategic advantage—not just delivery speed.

Client names are anonymised, but the challenges, constraints and engineering choices are real.

Tier 1 UK retail and commercial bank

Economic crime prevention as a shared orchestration platform

From fragmented point-solutions to an extensible, event-driven economic crime prevention fabric.

  • Unified orchestration layer for sanctions, PEP, fraud and transaction monitoring
  • Event-driven, cloud-portable architecture aligned to ISO 20022 flows
  • Business-friendly workflows using BPMN 2.0 and explainable policy decisions
  • Built to add new processors, vendors and markets without re-platforming
Platform & ArchitectureEconomic Crime & Fraud
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Large UK banking group with multi-brand presence

Modernising customer and payment screening for agility and oversight

From vendor-driven black boxes to a configurable, API-first screening platform.

  • Re-architected screening as a first-class API platform rather than a point solution
  • Delivered modern observability and non-repudiation audit trails
  • Enabled efficient onboarding of new screening providers and policies
  • Supported high-availability requirements under significant transaction volumes
Platform & ArchitectureEconomic Crime & Fraud
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UK digital bank focused on consumer lending (anonymised)

Cloud-native credit decisioning for a digital-first bank

From blank sheet to production-grade credit decisioning in four months.

  • Designed and delivered ~20 microservices credit decisioning platform in 4 months
  • Event-driven, cloud-native architecture on public cloud
  • Single platform supporting multiple product types (overdrafts, loans, etc.)
  • Enabled rapid experimentation with lending journeys and risk strategies
Platform & ArchitectureAI & DecisioningCloud & Payments
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Cross-institution collaboration with a UK banking group and regulators (anonymised)

Authorised payment fraud: designing for speed, signals and supervision

Experimenting with multi-agent fraud detection under tight sprint constraints.

  • Participated in an APP fraud tech sprint, delivering the "Fastest" award-winning prototype
  • Coordinated multiple signals and tools through a single orchestration layer
  • Designed for audited explainability, not just detection performance
  • Demonstrated potential for reduced time-to-market for fraud controls
AI & DecisioningEconomic Crime & Fraud
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Established European bank launching a greenfield digital brand on public cloud

Building a cloud-native payment and data foundation for a new digital bank

From concept to reference architecture, ISO20022 payments, data services and open banking adapters.

  • Co-architected greenfield digital bank components on Google Cloud
  • Designed ISO 20022-compliant payment services (single, bulk and batch)
  • Delivered BIAN-aligned enterprise data services and open banking client adapters
  • Provided ongoing cloud foundation and architecture oversight
Platform & ArchitectureCloud & Payments
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Established UK bank with ageing on-premises infrastructure

Preparing core banking for a hybrid cloud, "zero data centre" future

From static, data-centre-centric platforms to a hybrid cloud strategy with elastic capacity and controlled risk.

  • Defined hybrid cloud target architecture and migration patterns
  • Introduced burst capacity for peak processing without overprovisioning
  • Improved resilience, observability and change safety for core services
  • Created a roadmap from monolithic workloads to domain-aligned services
Platform & ArchitectureCloud & Payments
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Major UK banking group with complex regulatory reporting obligations

Automating evidence extraction for regulatory narratives

Reducing manual effort in regulatory narratives while improving traceability and consistency.

  • Structured, explainable evidence model for key regulatory topics
  • Automated extraction and aggregation of events and decisions into narrative templates
  • Human-in-the-loop workflow for validation and enrichment
  • Designed to evolve as regulation and internal controls change
AI & DecisioningPlatform & Architecture
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