One architect, named, on every engagement.
Most firms sell you a pitch team and staff you with whoever is free. The person below is the person who reads your first message, runs your discovery, and stays accountable for delivery. The bench executes under that oversight — never instead of it.
Shipping software that satisfies an auditor has been the day job for a decade. That is why evidence here is a byproduct, not a bolt-on.
Software engineering leader at AstraZeneca — FDA, GxP and EU-governed patient monitoring and clinical-trial release software, across teams in seven countries.
VP Technology at Wits Innovation Lab, running delivery where FDA, HITRUST and SOC 2 are built in from day zero. Prior: HIPAA, PCI/DSS, FedRAMP.
Twenty years building for Toyota, CBS, Warner Brothers, Lehman Brothers, VW and Target. BCG Digital Ventures alumni. FWA, Google Sandbox and Ad Age recognised work.
CTO at Spylight through acquisition. First lead engineer at Tradesy, scaling 10 to 50 through Series A. Six years as principal taking early-stage companies to PMF and through raises.
Judgment does not scale by hiring. Execution does.
Discovery, the domain model, the specification, and every decision that would be expensive to get wrong. Named, and the same person throughout.
A trained bench builds against a specification that already predicts its own behaviour. They cannot quietly reinterpret intent, because the spec is the contract.
Agents execute inside declared boundaries and halt rather than guess. Every run files evidence. Nothing reaches you because a model was confident.
You will not be handed to an account manager after signing. There isn’t one.
Talk to the person who’d do the work.
No SDR, no scoring model, no relay. Your note reaches Mike directly.