Regulated platforms • Revenue-critical systems • Stability at scale

Stabilising and scaling regulated betting and finance platforms so boards, regulators, and customers trust the tech.

CTO-level - 15+ years across fintech, gaming & sports betting technology — including platforms processing millions of transactions per day (PokerStars), millions of transactions per week (Racing & Sports), and launching the Isle of Man’s first ever digital bank in regulated environments.

Gaming / Fintech experience
  • Platform stabilisation: reduce incident load, improve MTTR, and remove key-person dependencies.
  • Operational maturity: on-call models, support tiers, runbooks, incident governance, and change control.
  • Governance & audit readiness: RACI, risk registers, board-facing reporting, security posture alignment.
  • Stability → acceleration: stabilise first, then safely increase delivery throughput and innovation.
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staff led across AU + Sri Lanka (Racing & Sports)
AUD $21m
ASX-listed revenue (FY24–FY25), +31% YoY
AUD $1.7m+
projected savings via hybrid cloud (3 years)
Incident MgmtGovernanceSLO / SRE Cloud cost controlPlatform resilience Regulated opsDue diligence

The same problems? How you can fix it!

Same problems, repeatable pattern: reduce risk, professionalise operations, then safely accelerate delivery.

Stabilise

Make production boring again

Lower incidents, improve MTTR, and introduce operational discipline that actually sticks.

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Govern

Board / regulator confidence

Translate technical reality into business risk with RACI, risk registers, escalation, and reporting.

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Deliver

Innovation with measurable outcomes

Stable foundations + clear ownership so teams can ship value faster without increasing fragility.

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Case studies

Problem → approach → measurable impact.

NFL simulation & pricing platform

Real-time • Production
Problem Broadcaster needed higher-quality, telemetry-driven odds and derived markets from live NFL data feeds.
What I Did Built simulation engines, pipelines, and cloud-native services with explicit SLOs, observability, and cost controls.
Impact Launched live in-play odds and probabilities on ESPN during the 2025 NFL season.
Outcome highlights The system I designed launched live in-play probabilities and markets on ESPN during 2025 NFL season.
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Virtual American football

Simulation • Data • Betting platform
Problem The client needed a realistic virtual American football sports game, but lacked the knowledge and underlying data to build it.
What I Did Built a simulation platform using real NFL and college football data, running 2M+ simulated games to generate realistic outcomes and telemetry, packaged for straightforward integration into the client’s product.
Impact Virtual American football game scheduled for launch into casinos across the US during 2026.
Simulation Data engineering 2M+ games Integration US casinos

Regulated wagering ops maturity uplift

Ops • Governance
Problem Production incidents + unclear ownership. Audit expectations rising. Delivery slowed by ambiguity.
What I Did Introduced RACI, incident governance, on-call tiers, escalation, and exec-facing risk reporting.
Impact ↓ incident MTTR by 90% • ↑ delivery predictability • earlier exec visibility of material risk.
Incident MgmtSupport modelRisk reporting

Embedded betting launch (UK)

Delivery • Client alignment
Problem Pre-launch issues threatened go-live of a new embedded sportsbook product.
What I Did Synced with the client to align all delivery teams on scope, dependencies, and “go/no-go” criteria, driving a single execution plan to remove last-mile ambiguity.
Impact New sports betting product launched into the UK market.
Program delivery Stakeholder alignment Go-live readiness Regulated market

Experience summary

Selected experience delivering and operating complex, regulated platforms.

Chief Technology Officer — Racing and Sports

2025–Feb 2026 • AU / International

Executive owner of engineering, cloud, security, and production operations in a multi-jurisdictional regulated wagering business.

  • ASX listed company with revenues of AUD $21m, growing 31% YoY (FY24–FY25).
  • Led ~46 staff across AU + Sri Lanka; accountable for governance, risk management and IT budget.
  • Launched BetBridge Embedded Betting Solution into UK market; stabilised white-label Wagering360 and onboarded new clients.
  • Reduced managed trading software performance incidents from ~10/week to zero over the last 2 months.
  • Spearheaded migration from AWS to Oracle in hybrid cloud, projected to save AUD $1.7m+ over three years.

Chief Technology Officer — Adrenaline

2023–2025 • US / UK

Led technology, data, and product strategy for NFL-centric sports betting products in regulated US markets.

  • Launched NFL live probabilities on ESPN during the 2025 NFL season.
  • Built next-gen odds/personalisation products contributing to >10% uplift in GGR during trials.
  • Cloud-native services in AWS using TypeScript/Python; leveraged ML tooling (e.g., SageMaker).
  • Participated in fundraising and investor discussions supporting product expansion.

IT & Development Manager — Capital International Bank

2021–2023 • Isle of Man

Senior hands-on leader delivering secure, regulated banking platforms for e-gaming and corporate services clients.

  • The first banking license granted for 20+ years on the Isle of Man.
  • Launch of first ever digital bank on the Isle of Man.
  • Reduced operational issues by 25% in one year through proactive investigation and platform stabilisation.
  • Delivered FATCA/AML reporting, risk pre-screening tooling, and platform enhancements.
  • Stack: Laravel/PHP, .NET, Angular, Azure/Kubernetes.

Director & Head of Sports Operations — Champion Tech

2018–2020 • Isle of Man / International

Co-founder exec for a B2B sportsbook provider: product delivery, certification, and live operations.

  • Built and launched Asia-facing SportsBook in a Tier 1 regulated environment.
  • Built internal operational tooling: real-time bet monitoring and regulatory reporting.
  • Close collaboration with regulators and outsourced service providers.

CMS Infrastructure & Development Manager — PokerStars

2010–2016 • Isle of Man / International

Led global CMS platform delivery across 8 licences and 26 languages across poker/casino/sportsbook/live events.

  • Designed localisation tooling reducing translation/update cost of ownership by $1.5m over 3 years.
  • Managed websites across 26 languages and 8+ regulated jurisdictions.
  • Supported major launches and migrations across regulated markets at internet scale.

Writing

Selected writing on operations, leadership, and scaling regulated systems.

Modelling

The Rarest Score in the NFL: 2–0

If you’re building or analysing a sports simulation system, there’s an important principle that often gets overlooked: Just because something is extremely unlikely doesn’t mean it’s impossible. And in the NFL, nothing illustrates that better than the 2–0 final score.

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Operations

Lessons for engineering leaders

Patterns I’ve seen (and made mistakes with) when scaling teams and production systems.

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