Every career has multiple narratives. Choose a lens to explore mine.
Same experiences, different perspectives—click a storyline to dive deeper.
From logic gates to neural networks
Understanding systems by building them from first principles. This thread follows the journey from building an 8-bit computer on breadboard to constructing production AI systems.
Leading through financial storms
From investigating the Barings collapse to leading through the 2008 crisis and Lehman integration. Understanding what happens when systems fail.
Scaling from individual to 300+ person teams
The journey from individual contributor to managing global teams across three time zones. Building organizations, not just systems.
Learn, struggle, master, teach
The pattern lived throughout the career: dive deep into something hard, achieve mastery through struggle, then teach it to others.
Connecting business and technology
For 25 years, standing between business and technology, translating each to the other. AI dissolves that boundary - now helping others cross it.
30+ years across five eras
A chronological journey through five distinct career eras—from audit foundations in South Africa, through consulting investigations, risk management leadership, fintech entrepreneurship, to AI engineering.
Foundation years at Arthur Andersen South Africa - financial auditing, due diligence, first computer implementation
Arthur Andersen London - Barings/Daiwa investigations, global training, financial markets consulting
Deutsche Bank, Barclays, and ICBC Standard Bank - building and leading risk infrastructure at scale
Stream Financial co-founder, New Paradigm Consulting, Augmented Solutions - building fintech infrastructure
Building AI systems, Risk-Agents, Personal AI Infrastructure