Scoped engineering engagements, delivered and evidenced.

Fixed-price work packages with agreed acceptance criteria — implemented changes, repeatable tests, and evidence you can hand to an enterprise buyer. Not advisory decks.

Engagements

Production readiness & security hardening

Getting a working product fit for enterprise deployment: identity and least-privilege access, secrets and secure configuration, data-tenancy boundaries, retention and deletion controls, audit logging, monitoring, incident and recovery runbooks. Commissioning independent penetration tests and owning the remediation.

Assurance evidence & compliance readiness

Reusable evidence packs that stand up to customer due diligence: implemented controls mapped to ISO 27001 and SOC 2 expectations, residual-risk registers, and operating procedures. Readiness work — certification and attestation stay with the auditors.

Cloud architecture & delivery

AWS serverless platforms, event and data pipelines, infrastructure as code, CI/CD. Design, review, or hands-on build — pragmatic, cost-aware, and operable by the team you already have.

AI product assurance & AI-assisted engineering

Deployment-focused assurance for AI features: system and data boundaries, prompt-injection and hallucination risk, human-review and low-confidence controls, data minimisation. Plus making agentic development tools genuinely productive inside a real engineering org — with the guardrails that keep humans accountable for what ships.

How I work

Fixed price, milestone-invoiced. Work packages with explicit deliverables, acceptance criteria, and capped allowances — you know the cost and the outcome before work starts.
Implementation over reports. Existing materials are inputs, not things to rewrite. The output is shipped code, configuration, runbooks, and tests — with evidence linking requirement to change to result.
Single point of accountability. I lead delivery and remain responsible for quality end to end, bringing in trusted specialists and independent testers under my accountability where the scope needs them.
Everything handed over. Code, tests, documentation, and evidence transfer to you, closed out with a knowledge-transfer session.

Background

More than twenty years of software architecture and engineering leadership. Progressed from senior engineer to software architect at a SaaS scale-up, where I led the migration from a monolith to AWS serverless microservices, introduced infrastructure as code, and built the product analytics pipeline. Contributed to the technical due diligence behind a $25m investment, an acquisition made, and the company's own acquisition. Currently lead supplier on an enterprise production-hardening and assurance programme for a privacy-first AI company.

Contact

Email: work@mousepilot.co.uk

Profile: LinkedIn

Terms: Sole trader · UK based · remote-first, on-site by arrangement