Solution Architect | Digital Transformation & Application Modernisation | Berlin, Germany 🇩🇪
20+ years delivering enterprise digital transformation programmes for globally recognised organisations including Bayer, Pfizer, Takeda, Boehringer Ingelheim, Royal Mail Group, and Microsoft. Background spans solution architecture, cross-functional team leadership, regulated environment delivery (pharma, healthcare, GDPR), and end-to-end platform modernisation.
Currently expanding into cloud-native architecture and modern engineering practices - AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (Apr 2026), AWS Solutions Architect Associate in progress, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Generative AI Professional certified (Oct 2025).
Architecture & Enterprise Delivery Defining solution architecture, leading engineering teams, and delivering complex digital platforms at enterprise scale. Notable work includes a unified multisite framework for Takeda (30+ sites, single codebase), a website factory synchronisation process for Bayer achieving 99.5% reliability across 300+ environments, and a GDPR-compliant stateless data privacy architecture for a regulated financial services platform.
Application Modernisation End-to-end platform rebuilds, version migrations (including Drupal 4.7→5, 7→9, 9→10), and performance-driven architectural refactoring - including a 5x application performance improvement through architectural overhaul. Actively exploring how AI tooling can accelerate legacy modernisation (see ColorManager below).
Open Source Active Drupal contributor since 2007. Maintaining Read Only Mode (4,400+ active installs), Previewable Email Templates, and several UI Suite modules - 5,000+ combined active installs across maintained modules.
Community Speaker at Drupal Camp Poland, Drupal Camp Pune, and Gnunify (~6 engagements). Workshop facilitator for early-career developers. Participated in Drupal AI Hackathon 2026 (Team 5, January 2026).
Structured upskilling toward cloud-native architecture and modern full-stack engineering:
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GroceryStore IaC - Terraform project provisioning EC2, RDS, VPC, S3, and GitHub Actions pipelines on AWS. Built as part of Masterschool Cloud Engineering programme (Berlin, 2025–2026) and AWS certification preparation.
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Markdown Blog App - Vue.js / Nuxt.js application with routing, state management, and API integration. Actively developed via spec-driven development.
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Todo App - Vue.js application with priority categories. Public learning project.
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Frontend Layouts - Frontend component practice from Frontend Mentor.
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ColorManager - Proof of concept: using AI-assisted development to migrate a legacy desktop application to modern web technologies. Demonstrates the principle of AI as an accelerator in application modernisation - not production-scale, but a deliberate experiment in the approach.
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Project Management App (private, in development) - Jira-like application with Go backend and Vue.js frontend. Acting as both Product Owner and Architect. Demonstrates structured delivery and architectural decision-making with an unfamiliar tech stack.
Core: PHP · Drupal · Symfony · JavaScript · MySQL / MariaDB · Docker
CI/CD & DevOps: GitLab CI/CD · Bitbucket Pipelines · GitHub Actions
Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS (EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, RDS) · Acquia Cloud · Pantheon · Digital Ocean · Terraform (IaC)
Architecture: Solution Architecture · GDPR Compliance Design · RESTful API Design · Third-Party API Integration · Automated Testing (PHPUnit) · CI/CD Strategy
Actively building: Vue.js · Nuxt.js · Go · AWS (Solutions Architect Associate in progress)
Foundational: Next.js · TypeScript · NestJS · Python
Past: ASP.NET · C# · MS SQL · C++ · Qt
- 🏅 AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner - Apr 2026
- 🏅 AWS Solutions Architect Associate - in progress
- 🏅 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2025 Generative AI Professional - Oct 2025
- 🏅 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2025 AI Foundations Associate - Oct 2025
- 🏅 Acquia Triple Certified - Drupal 9 (Oct 2022) & Drupal 8 (Jun 2020)
- 🏅 Acquia Backend Specialist - Drupal 9 (Aug 2022)




