About
Engineer, ex-CEO, researcher.
I've spent the last decade building software businesses from scratch — first as a founding engineer at a company that was later acquired, then as the founder and CEO of my own, bootstrapped without venture capital. Now I build my own products, and talk and write about what I learned building the others. Hands-on most days.
The journey
Research-grade depth, founder-grade discipline.
The willingness to be in the codebase and in the strategic conversation in the same week — and the experience to know which one a given problem actually needs.
Now
Avoxy Technologies
Founder
Founding engineer and CTO for OneHundred and OnceHeld — both seed-funded on the strength of the build, both in live use; clients have raised over £5M to date. These days the building is my own products, and I'm not taking on new engagements.
2017 – 2025
Curiosity Software
Co-founder & CEO
Bootstrapped, no venture capital, three co-founders in a room. Grew to an international team serving enterprise clients across financial services, technology, and consulting. Learned — at some cost — what to build first and what to let wait until there were real users and real revenue.
Ongoing
Recyclr
Non-exec director & engineer
Waste management tech — built for the UK's 2026 mandate.
Early career
Grid-Tools Ltd
Early engineer
Came up as an engineer at a software company later acquired by CA Technologies. My PhD in machine learning at Swansea sat behind the technical work the whole way through.
Credentials
Verifiable, not claimed.
PhD in Computer Science
Machine learning & data visualisation — Swansea University
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