With 20+ years in engineering leadership, I help scaling businesses solve the two problems that matter most: building the team and fixing the platform.
I've led complex migrations at scale, built cross-functional engineering teams from the ground up, and introduced frameworks that turn vague technical risk into something measurable and manageable.
Through Brued Ltd I work as a fractional, interim, or advisory partner — getting things done rather than writing reports about them.
What I offer
Engineering
Leadership
- Fractional Head / VP of Engineering
- Interim leadership cover
- Engineering team audits
- Hiring strategy and team building
- Delivery process and culture
- Technical debt visibility frameworks
Platform
Modernisation
- Monolith-to-microservices migration
- AWS architecture review and design
- Serverless and cloud-native strategy
- Legacy platform assessment and roadmap
- Technical due diligence
- Node.js platform engineering
Why Brued
Built at scale, not in theory
Led a domain-driven microservices migration on AWS scaling to 30,000+ users — not a whitepaper exercise.
Proprietary debt framework
Created a technical debt scoring system that gives leadership clear, data-driven visibility into platform risk.
Migration expertise
Delivered 1,600+ client migrations without disruption — on time, at scale, across a live production platform.
Team builder
Hired and led a 16-person cross-functional team — engineers, QA, and ops — from scratch to high performance.
AWS and Node.js depth
Hands-on expertise in AWS, Node.js, serverless, and microservices — not just strategy, but delivery.
Outcome focused
Work structured around your goals — fractional, project, or retained — with clear deliverables from day one.
Who I work with
Scale-ups (Series A–C)Outgrowing early architecture with 10–50 engineers and no clear modernisation path.
Mid-market businessesInherited legacy platforms that are slowing delivery and need a trusted hand to fix.
PE-backed companiesPost-acquisition technical due diligence or rapid platform improvement programmes.
Between engineering leadersNeeding fractional or interim cover while hiring a permanent Head / VP of Engineering.