Career Timeline

I co-founded PortIT to bridge banking and crypto through modular, as-a-Service infrastructure. I lead the technology vision and engineering culture while building brands like Quid, Toonie, Elviria, Streamable Finance, and RampX.

API-First Banking-aaS Platform handling hundreds of millions in transaction volume
Profitable from Day One – Multi-million R&D with year 1 profitability
Global & local payments + MasterCard/Visa Cards
AI-powered KYC/KYB and fraud detection
Fully automated K8s infrastructure with IaC
Fully remote engineering team

Streamable Finance - Chief Technology Officer

I lead the development of a revolutionary platform that enables real-time, continuous payment streams for money and tokenized assets. I'm building a superlayer that interlinks fragmented financial services to enable continuous transfers without traditional batch limitations.

Real-time yield platform delivering earnings second-by-second
StreamPay – wrapping & streaming assets on blockchain
Compliant DLT protocol bridging traditional & crypto finance
DeX trading with stable & weighted liquidity pools
Instant, programmable money movement infrastructure

I provide complete oversight of the Group's Technology Ecosystem and Engineering Team. I lead technical execution aligned with business objectives, focusing on scalable Enterprise Architectures for Payment Solutions both on-premise and in the Cloud.

Enterprise-grade payment infrastructure leadership
Hybrid cloud + on-premise scalable architectures
Group technology ecosystem oversight & governance
Enterprise payment solutions for mission-critical operations
Technical vendor & partnership management

I lead the technical strategy for a growing ecosystem of business and banking tools designed for entrepreneurs. I focus on maximizing technical capabilities while minimizing time to market.

Multi-currency wallet + global payment processing
Fast company formation & certification automation
Accounting software integration & reconciliation
Compliance-first infrastructure across multiple jurisdictions

Cloudera - Senior Systems Architect - FinTech SME

I served as Senior Systems Architect in Professional Services, specializing in Financial Technologies. Delivered high-volume, real-time data solutions at massive scale - billions of streams, petabytes of data - for large enterprises and financial institutions.

Open Source Software advisory for enterprise adoption
Large scale streams processing for mission-critical systems
Subject Matter Expert FinTech specialist in open-source ecosystem
Enterprise reference architectures advisor for distributed data platforms

I joined Hortonworks shortly before its merger with Cloudera, taking part in the historic transition that brought together two open-source data leaders. Continued to architect large-scale streaming and analytics solutions under the new Cloudera organization.

Orwell Group - Global Head Of Engineering

I spent five transformative years building ipagoo, the 2016 challenger bank. Starting as Head of Mobile Payments Architecture, I led a complete technical overhaul, scaled from 10 to 60+ engineers across three countries, and built infrastructure that achieved direct integration with the Bank of England on three payment schemes while handling tens of thousands of transactions per second.

Dematerialized payments via NFC/QR codes in the pre-Apple Pay era
Complete codebase rewrite to meet financial-grade standards
Direct Bank of England integration on FasterPayments, CHAPS, and BACS
Scaled from 10 to 60+ engineers across London, Madrid, and Poland
Achieved three payment scheme certifications ahead of competitors
Speaker on Open Banking, infrastructure automation, and streaming architecture

I led the London-based 12-15 person software development team building ipagoo's core platform. Established coding best practices, architecture patterns, and custom CI/CD processes while managing a distributed team across UK and Poland during the critical scaling phase.

I joined Orwell Group to architect disruptive mobile and online payment solutions using NFC/QR codes and blockchain technology in the pre-Apple Pay era. Led the initial technical overhaul and rewrite of the ipagoo platform to financial-grade standards.

I Co-founded an organization specialized in digital assets management and led the team that developed EasyHash - the easiest way to remotely manage, rent and profit from cloud crypto mining resources, adapting to market changes without hardware depreciation concerns.

Co-founded digital assets management platform and CEX
EasyHash cloud-based crypto mining management platform
Early multi-blockchain adoption

Benetton Group - Digital Signage and Biometric Solutions Consultant

I led the engineering of Benetton Group's visionary digital transformation. Partnered with Panasonic and Canon's Developer Programs on cutting-edge 3D spatial scanning and computer vision technology, winning the Golden APEX Award at DSE 2012 in Las Vegas.

Golden APEX Award winner at Digital Signage Expo 2012
3D spatial scanning & depth-sensing technology integration
Benetton Live Windows – interconnected videowall system
Global flagship store deployments for LVMH & Benetton
Real-time synchronized digital signage across continents

I led a research laboratory developing cutting-edge human-computer interaction systems using computer vision, depth sensing, gesture recognition, and immersive technologies for premium retail and fashion brands.

Depth Sensors and Natural-UI Algorithms
Early touchscreen & gesture-based interface innovation
Customer engagement platform development
Multi-touch interactive surfaces

Career Timeline

Director, CTO/CIO

Chief Technology Officer

Group CTO/CIO

CTO/CIO

Senior Systems Architect - FinTech SME

Senior Systems Architect - FinTech SME

Global Head Of Engineering

Head of Engineering - UK

Head of Mobile Payments Architecture

CTO - Co-Founder

Digital Signage and Biometric Solutions Consultant

Head of R&D Lab

Command deck