Backup architecture,
infrastructure automation,
developer tooling.
infrastructure automation,
developer tooling.
Senior Solutions Architect at Veeam with 22+ years in pre-sales, systems engineering and solutions architecture - specialising in data protection and virtualisation. I design backup, recovery and disaster-recovery architectures for major customers across VMware, Hyper-V, Nutanix and the big-three clouds, act as the senior technical escalation point for the field, and build Veeam sizing tools used by 1000+ people internationally. Lately I'm focused on applied AI engineering: assistants for system sizing and design decision support, built with Python, RAG and agentic workflows and grounded in real cloud stacks.
Veeam VMCA
Data Protection
Solution Architecture
Applied AI
Rust
RAG / Agentic AI
VMware / Hyper-V
Nutanix / KVM
AWS / Azure / GCP
Kubernetes
Python
REST APIs
Terraform / Ansible
Experience
2019
Present
Present
Senior Solutions Architect
Veeam Software · United Kingdom
Senior technical escalation point for field engineers, Solutions Architects and pre-sales teams on data protection and cloud. Design backup, recovery and disaster-recovery architectures for major customers and partners, presenting them to both technical teams and senior stakeholders. Built sizing tools now used by 1000+ people internationally - feedback informs product direction and the tools have contributed millions in revenue over five years. Design and size scalable, secure, high-performance architectures on-premises and across AWS, Azure and GCP, and produce the supporting white papers, best-practice guides and community content. Mentor SEs and SAs and run regular enablement sessions, and present at customer briefings, partner engagements and industry events.
2013
2019
2019
Hybrid-Cloud Solutions Architect
CDW · United Kingdom
Architected hybrid-cloud and data-centre solutions across the CDW portfolio. Prepared customised technical proposals and infrastructure assessments, responded to RFPs/RFIs alongside partners, and worked with account teams on sales strategy and account planning - building trusted-advisor relationships and helping close numerous multi-million-pound hybrid deals.
2011
2013
2013
Dell EMC Solutions Architect
TD Synnex (EMC for Avnet) · United Kingdom
Certified Dell EMC server, storage (Expert) and backup specialist. Supported resellers through the sales cycle - tender evaluations, RFP submissions and product sizing - and designed resource sizing, capacity planning and performance-optimised, cost-efficient architectures. Built deep virtualisation expertise across VMware, Hyper-V, KVM and Nutanix.
2007
2011
2011
Senior Pre-sales Engineer
Adtech · United Kingdom
Pre-sales engineering across data-centre and infrastructure technologies - the early foundation of a 22-year career in systems engineering and solutions architecture.
Side projects
RUST · CLI · OSS
owlctl
GitOps-style Veeam management CLI. 3-way merge, drift detection, CI/CD integration. v1.0 shipped with 16 releases - production-ready.
K3s · PAAS · EARLY ACCESS
Atelier
Self-hosted PaaS on K3s ("Heroku for homelabs") with a NATS/JetStream agentic message bus. Currently in early access under a proprietary licence.
tryatelier.dev ↗
MCP · NODE · OSS
Veeam Ports MCP Server
MCP server for Veeam port topology - semantic search, topology generation, generate_app_import for Magic Ports. Built and shipped end-to-end.
PYTHON · LIBRARY · OSS
VeeamEasyConnect
Python library that simplifies authentication and API access across the Veeam product range: Backup & Replication, Enterprise Manager, AWS, Azure, GCP, Microsoft 365 and Veeam ONE.
GitHub ↗
RUST · CLI
Rust tooling suite
logwatch (recursive TUI log monitor), redact-logs, vb365-log-viz, pdf2md - all production Rust CLIs built for real daily use.
REACT · NODE-GRAPH · OSS
FlowCal
Visual node-graph editor and calculator built in React. Wire together 100+ node types to build computational workflows with no code. Self-hosted or cloud, Apache 2.0.
GitHub ↗
Skills & tooling
Data protection & virtualisation
Veeam VBR (VMCA)
Backup & recovery / DR
VMware / Hyper-V
Nutanix / KVM
Dell EMC storage
Encryption
Cloud & platforms
AWS / Azure / GCP
Kubernetes / Docker
Terraform / Ansible
Linux
SDN / NFV
Sizing & capacity planning
Development
Rust (axum, tokio, clap)
Python (PCAP)
REST API design
SQL / NoSQL
Solution design & RFP
MCP server development
Certifications & languages
Certifications
Veeam Certified Architect (VMCA)
Azure Administrator (AZ-104)
Python Certified Programmer (PCAP)
Courses
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
AZ-204 - Developing Solutions for Azure
AI-102 - Azure AI Engineer
Machine Learning A-Z (AI, Python & R)
Languages
English - Native
Mandarin - Intermediate
Writing & publications
VEEAM COMMUNITY · 2025
Level up your Veeam Backup for Azure Monitoring with Azure Log Analytics
How to integrate Azure Log Analytics with Veeam Backup for Azure for richer monitoring and alerting.
VEEAM GUIDE · 2022
Getting Started with REST APIs
Working with REST APIs in the context of Veeam. Co-authored with Jorge de la Cruz.
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