Raising the bar every day

First, zero to one.
Then, one to billions.

£12b+Transaction value £172m+Customer impact £25m+Revenue impact
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Experience

Work that moved the numbers

Account Funding Transactions (AFTs)
0 → 1 and beyond

Repositioned a compliance mandate into a strategic growth engine. Built product, go-to-market, and commercial enablement from scratch.

£12b+
Annual transaction value
4x adoption since GA75% faster time-to-valueScaled in 12 months
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1 · Pull request flows from cardholder to issuer Customerinitiates pull Merchantpull request Worldpayroutes to issuer Issuerdebits card Issuer /Bank 2 · Issuer debits the cardholder
How an Account Funding Transaction settles
Revenue Recovery — Immediate Retry & Smart Retry
0 → 1 and beyond

Built an intelligent payment recovery suite identifying two distinct failure modes. Turnkey and configurable variants serve different merchant sophistication levels.

£172m+
Recovered for customers, annually
67,000 weekly successes11% success rate4% ML uplift
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Failedpayment Technicalinstant retry TimingML retry window Recovered11% success Recovered4% uplift
Two failure modes, one recovery suite
Real-Time Data Platform (Kafka)
0 → 1 and beyond

Built transaction event-driven streaming from idea to production in nine months, transforming data availability from days to seconds.

10b+
Transaction events / year
Days → seconds9-month delivery550m transactions pilot
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Real-time payments reporting dashboard: approval rate by count and amount, sales, refund and chargeback rates, declines by provider, and approval rate by issuing-bank country
Real-time reporting — approvals, declines and global acceptance
Payment Acceptance Optimisation
1 → millions

Drove seamless customer experience with systematic improvements to payment acceptance for strategic clients and end-users.

£25m
Revenue impact
58% YoY growth137 strategic clients742m applications / yr
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Prior year This year +58% YoY
Acceptance-driven revenue, YoY
New Platform Initiatives

Built e-commerce solutions in education, attracting new high-value customers and market-leading clients. Brand new customer journey on a 1.3m live platform.

£28m
Initiative revenue
82,000 high-value customers20+ market-leading clients58% satisfaction increase
Course marketplace — browse, rate and enrol
AI Knowledge Service

Designed an AI-powered community knowledge service endorsed by a leading national AI network.

£225k
Investment secured
Curated collections with personalised recommendations
2020
Programme Manager
Impact Investing
Launched a first-in-country impact-investing acceleration programme, backed by three major philanthropic foundations.
Acquired
Sberbank Robotics Laboratory service robot in an office
2020
Junior Product Manager · Intern
Sber Robotics Laboratory
Delivered an operational MVP and market analysis for a Fortune 500 bank.
MVP to production
Press release
Cognitive Pilot autonomous-vehicle perception detecting cars, signs and pedestrians
2019
R&D · Intern
Cognitive Technologies
Data algorithms for Hyundai's autonomous-vehicle systems.
1% accuracy gain
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Ventures

Ventures that make a difference

Meaningful, entrepreneurial products and communities I have built and scaled beyond the day job. Each one live in production, each solving a problem I care about.

Impact Connect landing page: Professional Connections with Purpose
Impact Connect

Peer-matching platform for professionals working on meaningful challenges. Supported by the World Economic Forum's Global Shapers Community.

165+ matchesAcross 20+ countries
London AI Meetup community page on Luma
London AI Meetup

An enthusiast community uniting leading AI builders across London tech and business ecosystem. Founded in 2024 in partnership with Microsoft.

1,000+ membersLeading companies, academia and startups
Payments Compass landing page: the week in payments, distilled
Payments Compass

Weekly competitive intelligence for the payments industry. The deals, launches and regulation that matter, distilled into one concise email every Sunday.

~1,000 stories / weekAcross 15+ payment companies