Moving a live Formula 1 ticketing platform out of a disrupted AWS region
A Formula 1 circuit. Contract. 2025–2026.
Region migration, re-architecture on Amazon ECS with AWS Fargate, and two race on-sales run in production.
Selected work
Three case studies, then shorter project cards.
Case studies
Architecting a composable telehealth platform
A UK gut-health telehealth startup. Tech Lead. June 2022 – March 2023.
Discovery, a vendor-composed architecture, and GDPR-aware data flows.
Accessibility and modernization for a UK public-sector watchdog
A UK public body. Tech Lead, then contract. 2022 – present.
A WCAG accessibility program, then the platform's move to PHP 8 and AWS Fargate.
Project cards
London Anchor Institutions' Network
Tech Lead, Browser London. Client: Bloomberg Associates for the Greater London Authority.
I recommended Squarespace over a custom build. I built the site and its gated members area. Concept to launch took six weeks. Ownership passed to a non-technical team at the GLA. The site still runs.
- Squarespace
- members area
- build-vs-buy
We Can Dream Together
Freelance developer for Rush Hour Digital, 2024.
I architected, built, and deployed the foundation's site. Headless WordPress on WP Engine, with a Next.js front end over WPGraphQL. Tested with Playwright. The design was not mine.
- Headless WordPress
- WPGraphQL
- Next.js
- WP Engine
- Playwright
Pirata Group
Architect and lead developer, Rush Hour Media. Launched May 2019.
A WordPress multisite for a Hong Kong hospitality group: one group site and ten restaurant sites. I built custom plugins for custom post types with ACF Pro. I led two developers and managed design and client communication.
- WordPress multisite
- ACF Pro
- custom plugins
Sassy Mama and Sassy Hong Kong
Lead developer, Rush Hour Media.
I led development on two lifestyle and parenting publications, with at least three other developers. I did much of the SEO and performance work. The team's Sassy Hong Kong site won a Silver W3 Award.
The Sassy Mama rebuild cut bounce rate 50% and roughly doubled retention and pages per session. That is the rebuild's result, not a personal metric.
- WordPress
- SEO
- performance
Commerce builds
Rush Hour Media.
I architected and built Archetypal, a Hong Kong design retailer, on WooCommerce. I built the ZARIE athleisure store on Shopify. I rebuilt Hushup.hk on WordPress with its ticketing integration.
- WooCommerce
- Shopify
- WordPress
Running an agency's infrastructure
Director, WordPress, Rush Hour Media, 2014–2020.
I ran the agency's hosting and IT while it grew from about 5 to about 18 people. I provisioned CentOS LAMP servers on Rackspace, then moved client hosting to WP Engine and Pantheon. I moved most client DNS to Cloudflare. I wrote the architecture, business continuity, and disaster recovery documentation that took the agency through a Fortune 500 company's vendor procurement.
- Linux
- LAMP
- WP Engine
- Pantheon
- Cloudflare DNS
- BC/DR