Forward Deployment Engineer · London · Contract
Nine years of complete client success, delivered from inside the customer's team.
Persistent imagines, engineers, modernizes and manages for enterprise customers. Those four verbs are a fair description of the last nine years, so this page answers the posting through them, then grades all seven capability areas line by line.
The operating model, run against the record
Persistent describes its work in four verbs.
So does the last nine years.
- 01 / 04
We imagine.
New products scoped with the customer, from the first conversation to the statement of work.
came out of an auth and billing problem that kept recurring across clients and was spun out as a marketplace platform where providers register an API once and consumers compose across vendors. validated an AI-first restaurant brand across four pop-ups before a line of production code was committed.
- 02 / 04
We engineer.
Hands-on delivery, still writing the code, which is what keeps a review bar honest.
's front end from a blank canvas to 15,000+ seats and acquisition at a $6M valuation. 's test architecture and API definitions for Hyundai's connected-car platform, where one script drives JMeter, Appium and Selenium across IoT, web portal and mobile.
- 03 / 04
We modernize.
Legacy work brought forward, with AI where it earns its place.
A 25-year trading house now edits its own catalogue by describing the change in plain English: Claude opens the pull request, CI/CD ships it behind review gates. 's patient-data migration held HIPAA compliance through the move.
- 04 / 04
We manage.
The part that decides whether modernization survives the handover.
CI/CD on GitHub Actions cut time-to-market four times over across the portfolio. 's embedded pod became the client's first in-house engineers, and 's ERP is still running with a last support call in 2024.
Industry coverage
Five of the eight industries on Persistent's grid already have his work in production.
Persistent organises itself by industry. So does a nine-year client record. The lit tiles are engagements that shipped and stayed shipped.
In production
Banking & Financial Services
, Norway. Financing product to Vipps-integrated production, pod handed over as the client's first in-house engineers.
Open
Insurance
No insurance engagement yet. The adjacent proof is regulated delivery: HIPAA, GDPR and EU VAT shipped as product surfaces.
In production
Healthcare
Health. 64 doctors, 6,000 patients, 13,340 clinical schedules across 7 centres, HIPAA EHR interoperability and audit logging.
In production
Life Sciences
. A turnkey pharmaceutical ERP covering client visits, international quotations, negotiation, buying, ledger and dues. Still in service.
In production
Industrial
for Hyundai HATA, California. Connected-car QA automation across IoT, web portal and mobile, still in use.
In production
Software & Hi-Tech
, Zurich. Six years as an client through to acquisition by Loopcloud at a $6M valuation.
In production
Telecom & Media
, SkyTracks and SoftCollab across four years in Canada, plus 's video platform on queue-driven encoders.
Open
Consumer Tech
Closest is , an AI-first restaurant brand on on-demand Cloud Run, validated across four pop-ups.
The posting, line by line
Seven capability areas, each one graded.
Every area on the posting gets a verdict and the engagement that backs it. Where the honest answer is a ramp, the ramp is named with what stands in its place today.
Shipped
Application Development and Integration
Full-stack across Java, Python, .NET, JavaScript/TypeScript, Node.js, React, Angular; API development, microservices, event-driven architectures, enterprise integration, distributed systems.
Nine years of full-stack delivery in TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Go and Node.js, with React and Angular both shipped to production: Angular 14+ with Web Audio streaming and WebSocket collaboration on , React and NestJS on . Integration is the through-line: REST, GraphQL, gRPC and webhooks, event-driven work on SQS, SNS and EventBridge, and , a marketplace platform where providers register an API once and consumers compose across vendors under shared identity. Java and .NET are the two runtimes on this list he has not shipped; every other language named here is daily work.
The rampJava and .NET read as syntax over the same JVM and CLR service patterns he already runs. Spring Boot maps onto NestJS almost concept for concept.
Ramping
Cloud, Platform Engineering and Infrastructure
Azure, AWS and GCP; multi-cloud, cloud-native, serverless, containerized and Kubernetes-based architectures at enterprise scale.
AWS is the deep one: ECS, Lambda including container images as an early adopter, EventBridge, SQS and SNS, S3, IAM and WAF, CloudFormation for SAML-based provisioning, plus cost and egress economics across regions. GCP Cloud Run runs and . Azure carries 's Gemini TTS pipeline in production. Docker is everywhere and serverless is the default shape of his edge work on Cloudflare Workers.
The rampKubernetes sits at familiarity and ran under 's platform rather than under his own hands. Deep AWS and Docker make the operator and scheduler layer a few weeks of real work, and Azure breadth grows fastest by delivering on it.
Ramping
DevSecOps, MLOps and Automation
CI/CD, GitOps, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible), observability, monitoring, Secure SDLC, release engineering and platform automation.
CI/CD on GitHub Actions replaced manual deploys across 's whole client portfolio and cut time-to-market four times over, a 75% cycle-time reduction. Secure SDLC is habit rather than policy: SAST, SSRF guards, idempotency keys, parity suites and CI gates, with HashiCorp Vault for secrets. He hosts GitOps webinars. Evaluation harnesses gate 's output the way an MLOps pipeline gates a model.
The rampTerraform and Ansible sit at familiarity against deep CloudFormation and Docker. IaC is a language change on top of infrastructure he already reasons about, and the first engagement is where it becomes muscle.
Shipped
AI, Generative AI and Machine Learning
GenAI and Agentic AI using Anthropic, Gemini and emerging platforms; AI orchestration and agent frameworks; prompt engineering, RAG, vector databases, LLMOps and secure AI.
Agentic AI is in client production, not in a deck. , a 25-year trading house, edits its own catalogue by describing the change in plain English: Claude opens the pull request and CI/CD ships it behind review gates. publishes local-language news audio daily, with grounding evaluations checking every script against its sources before it ships. runs six specialist agents over an A2A hub and spoke on Python, FastAPI and Google ADK. He is certified on the Anthropic API, Agent Skills and Claude Code, and holds the Google and Kaggle agents intensive.
The rampThe orchestration lane he owns is MCP, A2A and Google ADK rather than LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, CrewAI or AutoGen. Those are a week each on top of the same graph, tool-calling and state concepts, and he writes MCP servers by hand.
Open ground
Enterprise Architecture and Security
Enterprise architecture frameworks (TOGAF, Zachman), cloud-native design patterns, integration architectures, Zero Trust, IAM, encryption and compliance frameworks.
The security and compliance half is home ground: OAuth2, SSO, multi-tenant RBAC on Auth0, JWT, IAM and secrets management, and products led into GDPR, HIPAA, EU VAT and WCAG 2 compliance across five client organisations, including a patient-data migration that held compliance through the move. The architecture half is where the honest line sits: nine years of solution architecture and integration design, and zero formal TOGAF or Zachman certification.
The rampTOGAF Foundation and Practitioner is a study-and-exam ramp he would start in the first month, and the artefacts it asks for are ones he already produces under other names: capability maps, target-state diagrams, transition plans, statements of work.
Shipped
Innovation and Technology Leadership
Evaluate, prototype and operationalize emerging technologies; lead Proof of Concepts, accelerator programs, modernization initiatives and AI transformation.
This is the loop he runs by default. began at Milan AI Week 2026 as an agent-olympics build and now ships daily in production, heading toward a UK government-facing use case. was built solo during the World's Largest Hackathon and submitted to Y Combinator. went from scaffold to a live platform with product and market research owned from the same seat, and was submitted to Y Combinator. Inside he built the organisation from zero to 22 people, 52+ including contract, and ran it distributed and remote-first as Engineering Manager and then CIO.
Ramping
Data Engineering and Analytics
Data platforms, ETL/ELT pipelines, data lakes, real-time streaming and analytics that enable AI and business intelligence.
is an ingestion, ETL and analysis platform he built solo that gave a fragmented community one canonical dataset, and competing teams now use its analytics to measure themselves against international benchmarks. runs DuckDB and Dagster over H3 spatial indexing with every number traceable to its source. Real-time streaming is shipped rather than studied: Web Audio and WebSocket collaboration on , queue-driven encoders on .
The rampPetabyte-scale lakehouse platforms, Databricks and Kafka at enterprise volume are the step up from these. The modelling, lineage and orchestration concepts carry across, and the ramp is the tooling.
Shipped
Forward deployment itself
Embedded with the customer, in London, on a contract basis.
Embedded delivery is the shape of his whole record. hired and led a pod inside a Norwegian client and handed it over as their first in-house engineers, and the engagement ended because it had worked. Engagements ran four and six years: in Zurich to acquisition at a $6M valuation, , SkyTracks and SoftCollab across four years in Canada. London is settled: a sister already lives there, and the route is a company-sponsored Skilled Worker visa.
Earned, not just claimed
Beyond the posting
Persistent names four corporate values. Here is what each one looks like in a nine-year record.
Ingenious
Recurring client problems became products. and came out of auth and billing work that kept repeating across engagements, and , the ERP designed end to end for multi-organisation business operations, runs on them.
Responsible
Compliance carried as delivery work across five client organisations: GDPR, HIPAA, EU VAT and WCAG 2 shipped as product surfaces, plus App Store and Play review for the US and Europe.
Persistent
Engagements measured in years, not sprints. Six with a Zurich client through to acquisition, four across three Canadian clients, and a 994-day daily French streak with weekly grammar explainers published in public.
Confident
Two alumni now lead teams in Norway, one is pursuing further education in Canada on his recommendation, another is exploring the next phase of their career in Germany, and alumni lead at two local Bangladeshi tech firms.
Complete client success
The engagement is the unit of work. It has been for nine years.
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London was settled before the job search was: a sister already lives there, and the city came first through Olympic Combat in 2024. The European delivery record runs alongside it, from six years with a Zurich client through to acquisition to Vipps shipped in Norway. The route is a company-sponsored Skilled Worker visa.