Hey, I'm Jack
Independent B2B contractor based in the UK. I sit between data science and production, and I build the platforms that get models and services off a laptop and onto a Kubernetes cluster that doesn't fall over. Day job: Heimdall, a deployment dashboard 20+ engineers open every morning, a shared CI/CD library across 20 services, and the observability stack underneath. Night job: MSc in Artificial Intelligence, finishing August 2026.
The Story
From graduate QA to platform engineering. Here's how I got here.
QA Engineer
Graduated with a BSc in Computer Science. Jumped straight into a massive monolith → microservices migration, building the first CI/CD pipelines from scratch.
Platform Engineer
Took ownership of the platform. Built observability from zero, implemented GitOps with ArgoCD, and designed deployment automation for 20+ services.
Site Reliability Engineer
Standardised the pipeline platform onto one shared library across every service. Started the deployment-metrics tooling that became Heimdall.
Platform & MLOps · MSc AI
Pivoting toward AI infrastructure. Finishing an MSc in Artificial Intelligence (August 2026). Operating as an independent B2B contractor, focused on the gap between data science and production.
How I Work
A few things I've come to believe after a few years on platform teams.
Build for the morning standup
If a tool doesn't have a place to look, it doesn't get used. Most of my best work has been adding a UI to something that was already running headless.
Boring is a compliment
The ideal platform fades into the background. Engineers shouldn't have to think about it any more than they think about the office wifi.
Operability is a feature
If a teammate can't tell whether your service is healthy in under a minute, you haven't finished it yet. I default to one-curl health checks and a runbook.
Ship the diff, not the rewrite
Every project I'm proud of started as a small thing that quietly became load-bearing. Big-bang plans almost never survive contact with reality.
Tech Stack
What I work with day to day.
Orchestration
MLOps & AI
Observability
Cloud & IaC
Languages
Security
Data
Right now
Shipping Heimdall · Finishing the MSc · Lining up September 2026
Wrapping up my current contract on the platform team I helped build. Heimdall is still the centre of gravity — a deployment intelligence dashboard used daily by 20+ engineers across 17 services.
Finishing an MSc in Artificial Intelligence in August 2026. The dissertation looks at deep learning applied to compute resource allocation — the same problem I keep running into on the platform side, so the two halves are converging.
Available for fully remote B2B contracts (Outside IR35 or international equivalent) starting September 2026. Platform engineering, SRE, and MLOps / AI infrastructure work.
Still reading?
Drop me a note. About a B2B engagement, an AI infrastructure problem, or anything that overlaps with the work above.