From a booking tool for a growing business to a platform that has to scale, the same senior engineering sits behind every build. Backed by 25+ years of enterprise architecture experience in retail and financial services.
The discipline behind a first app is the discipline behind a platform — so you never have to choose between a small build done right and a big one done well.
Headless and composable commerce, order management, product information, marketplace integrations, and in-store technology for multi-channel retailers.
Online banking, insurance, and credit-risk applications, where reliability, auditability, and careful change management come first.
Legacy migrations, cloud architecture, and platform engineering, plus the standards and governance that keep the result maintainable.
Adopting generative and agentic AI responsibly: choosing where to start, integrating with existing systems, and governing access and risk as use grows.
Led architecture and engineering across headless commerce, order management, product information, and social-commerce and marketplace integrations, and set the architecture standards and governance used across the enterprise.
Delivered integrations with major global marketplaces for several consumer brands, and piloted a mobile point-of-sale solution in physical stores in Europe and North America.
Designed and built the application, led the team through delivery, then moved design and development to a new offshore team without interrupting the work.
Migrated legacy applications for a UK investment bank and delivered a strategic credit-risk application, leading global teams of 25+ engineers using Agile delivery.
Delivered a multi-year integration program for a major insurer, with round-the-clock production support for critical consumer-facing applications.
Built architecture frameworks, patterns, and review processes used across an enterprise's applications, and led the senior architects responsible for technical solution decisions.
Our advisor has led delivery teams of 30+ across several time zones. The same experience goes into scoping and reviewing your project, not only into the sales conversation.
Every engagement is shaped around the problem, and most begin with a short architecture review or discovery sprint so the approach is agreed before a larger build.
We bring the architecture standards and review practices used on large enterprise programs, applied at the size your project needs.
Significant technical choices are written down with the options considered and the trade-offs, so you can see why, not just what.
Confidential data, credentials, and production records stay out of AI tools. If your company has a policy on AI use, we work within it — just tell us at the start.
Faster first versions, more testing, and fewer surprises. The savings show up in the schedule, not in what we're willing to ship.
Technology executive with 25+ years across retail and financial services, from hands-on Java engineering to leading architecture and engineering for a multi-brand enterprise. Has led globally distributed teams of 30+, delivered commerce platforms, marketplace integrations, and cloud modernization programs, and run round-the-clock production operations. TOGAF-certified, AWS Certified Machine Learning – Specialty, and a graduate of an executive program in generative and agentic AI at the University of Oxford.
For larger builds, SPAN Labs draws on a small, vetted network of senior architects and engineers — each with their own enterprise-grade track record. You still work with one team throughout; the network scales quietly behind the scope.
We turn the scattered tools into one simple system your team actually uses — bookings, orders, invoices, whatever your day runs on.
We map what you have, fix the riskiest parts first, and move you forward in steps — no risky all-at-once rewrite.
We find what's actually holding it back and fix that, instead of rebuilding everything from scratch.
We make sense of it, document it, and put it on a footing you can rely on.
We help you choose the smallest version worth building, then build it properly the first time.
An independent, senior review of the plan, the risks, and the cost — before you spend.
For a system you already run, or a plan you're about to commit to.
For a new product or tool where the first question is what to build.
Tell us what you're building — from a quick business automation to a multi-tier enterprise system. We'll talk scope, approach, and cost together; every project is different, so let's start with a conversation, not a quote.
Would rather talk it through? Pick a time that suits you.
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