Industries
Sectors where the work lands hardest
Five years of independent platform work has clustered around a handful of industries. Each one has its own reliability profile, regulatory shape, and operational tempo. Below is where I tend to do my best work, with notes on what the engagement usually looks like.
Payments, banking, and the regulators behind them
Fintech
Production-grade platforms for fintechs that take latency, audit trails, and PCI scope as seriously as the product team takes the roadmap.
Clinical systems where downtime has real consequences
Healthtech
HIPAA-aligned cloud foundations and operational discipline for healthtech teams handling PHI, clinical data, and regulated integrations.
Platforms that need to survive Black Friday with their dignity
E-commerce
Capacity planning, autoscaling, and operational readiness for e-commerce platforms where peak traffic is a survivable event, not a war room.
Multi-tenant platforms that grow without grinding to a halt
B2B SaaS
Platform foundations, internal developer platforms, and operational maturity for B2B SaaS teams scaling from product-market fit to mid-market.
GPU-heavy platforms where utilisation and latency both matter
AI/ML Infrastructure
Training and inference infrastructure for ML platform teams, with a focus on GPU utilisation, cost control, and reliable inference at scale.
Two-sided platforms where reliability is the product
Marketplaces
Multi-region resilience, real-time event pipelines, and operational maturity for marketplaces where downtime breaks both sides of the network.
High-throughput delivery where every millisecond shows up
Media & Streaming
CDN strategy, origin scaling, and observability for media platforms where buffering is churn and peaks are predictable but unforgiving.
Platforms that have to work when the school day starts
EdTech
Reliability, scale, and cost discipline for EdTech platforms where peak load is predictable, brief, and absolutely unforgiving.
Not on the list?
These are the industries I see most often, not the only ones I work in. If your sector isn’t here, the underlying work is usually similar.