Career Timeline
Explore two decades of technology leadership, from pioneering digital signage solutions for luxury brands to building cutting-edge FinTech platforms at the intersection of blockchain and AI.
Browse my career highlights in minimal view, or expand all cards to dive deeper into each role.
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
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
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.
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
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