I’m a senior software engineering leader with 20+ years in the trenches and a borderline-unhealthy love of helping teams get important shit done.
I specialise in team disaster recovery (people, not tech): when trust is gone, delivery is wobbling, politics are loud, and everyone’s “fine” while quietly updating their CVs. I help you rebuild purpose, momentum, and a way of working that doesn’t rely on heroics, guilt, or constant emergencies. I’m at my best when it’s a perfect storm of business pressure, messy humans, and complicated systems all colliding at once.
My style is direct, practical, and empathetic. I’ll ask awkward questions, spot patterns you’ve normalised, and help you make decisions you can actually execute next week. I swear more than I should, I’m too opinionated to be a perfect coach, and my internal state oscillates between “Fast & Furious” urgency and “Bill Evans” calm. (Both are useful.)
If your team is stuck, broken, underperforming, or just quietly dissolving, and you’ve tried everything else, I can help. I’ve turned around teams from disaster to delivery: clarified what matters, untangled incentives, reset leadership habits, rebuilt psychological safety, and created operating rhythms that make shipping feel normal again.
Common things I help with:
- You inherited a struggling team and need a rescue plan that doesn’t torch morale
- Delivery is slow and everyone has a different story why
- You’re a new EM/Tech Lead and it feels like you’re failing in 4 dimensions
- You’re managing conflict, performance, or a “brilliant jerk” situation
- Stakeholders are chaotic and your team is absorbing all the damage
- You need to rebuild trust, purpose, and accountability without going full dictator
What a session looks like:
We’ll get to the real problem fast, map what’s actually happening (not what should be happening), and leave with a clear next move: a plan, a script for the hard conversation, or a set of experiments to run with your team.
If you’ve got an engineering leadership knot that’s keeping you up at night, book a session. Bring the mess. We’ll unpick it, and you’ll walk away with something you can use immediately.