Expertise
- TypeScript
- Python
- Amazon Web Services
- stripe
- Machine Learning
- SaaS
- Knowledge Graph Market
- docker
- RAG Knowledge Assistants
- LLM
- Kubernetes
- graphql
- Model Context Protocol (MCP)
- Linux
- Engineering Management
- IT
- IT Management
- Software Development
Summary
CTO and technical leader with almost 30 years of building and scaling technology organisations, from 10-person startups to £30M operations, and a track record of turning underperforming platforms and teams into growth engines.
As turnaround CTO and board member at M3 / Doctors.net.uk our team grew revenue 200% and EBITDA by over 1500%, rebuilding a near-technologically-bankrupt software platform and the team around it to full health. As co-founding CTO of Cognitant our small team scaled an award-winning healthtech from inception to 30+ staff, serving top-10 pharma (Bayer, Bristol Myers Squibb and others) and the NHS at >99.96% uptime under NHS DTAC. Deep regulated-industry experience throughout - GDPR, ISO 27001, NHS DTAC, SaMD.
Now, through Hikari Systems, I embed AI, graph and LLM capability directly inside client engineering teams - building the knowledge into the team rather than just doing the job. Current focus: agentic architectures, RAG/GraphRAG, knowledge graphs and organisational AI adoption.
A recent hands-on output is Slater - an open-source graph engine I built in Rust: bounded-memory, Bolt-speaking, read-only ISO GQL + Cypher, with disk-native vector search, benchmarked against Neo4j, Memgraph and FalkorDB. → github.com/Hikari-Systems/slater
Technologies:
- Cloud: Mainly AWS (over 10 years) with experience in GCP, Azure, datacenter self-hosting
- Languages: Javascript/Typescript, React (Vite/Gatsby/NextJs), Java, Python, PHP, Rust, C#, embedded C, VBA, askell, Golang.
- Architecting: UML, 12-factor, Microservice and monolithic architectures
- Test automation: Jest, Selenium, PhantomJS, Puppeteer, Playwright, MochaJS
- CI/CD: Github actions, CircleCI, Concourse
- Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, AWS CDK. AWS X-ray, New Relic, ELK, Grafana, DoRA metrics, ISO 27001, ISO 13485 standards, CyberEssentials Plus
- Container & orchestration: Docker (compose and swarm), AWS Fargate, Marathon/Mesos/Chronos
- Data Platform using Tableau, Microsoft SSRS/SSIS/SSAS, Oracle, DB2, PostgreSQL, MySQL
- AI Engineering: SageMaker, Bedrock, OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemma, LangChain, RAG, Pinecone, 3-pipeline training architecture.
Open-source:
Author of Slater, a read-only, low-memory, bolt-speaking graph database intended as a drop-in replacement for neo4j. https://github.com/Hikari-Systems/slater
Experience
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Hikari Systems
Founder & CTO
- Current
Education History
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Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical)
University of NSW
1993 - 1997
