Your systems are strained. Your team is stretched. What worked six months ago doesn't scale to the next six.
Fighting fires all day leaves no time for strategy.
We land running and take problems off your hands. We resolve them, grow your team to handle the next time, then leave.
This is what we're built for: the high-stakes inflection points where the right partner makes all the difference.
JP scales organisations and engineering products under pressure.
He was Deliveroo's principal engineer, influencing the 1,800 tech organisation across 50+ teams. He led engineering teams in marketing, growth, payments, and infrastructure for over 9 years; as the company grew from 6 engineers to 600, through funding rounds, hypergrowth, IPO prep, and to profitability.
He makes reliability prioritisable. When incidents kept recurring, JP created Hyperfocus — a framework that gave reliability work the same weight as features and ended the cycle of fire-fighting.
He builds systems that scale. JP architected Deliveroo's distributed experimentation platform (hundreds of experiments, zero blast radius), their event-sourced payments system (optimised for cost at massive scale), and blinkbox' book ingestion platform (turning daily snapshots of 500k ebooks into concise delta events that drove everything from push notifications to their physical ebook reader).
He moves fast, and unbreaks things. Whether the single code-line prototype for Deliveroo Plus, hiring 85% of roles in a scale-up, or coaching senior staff engineers on building products like a business owner.
With JP, the pressure lifts. Board questions get clearer answers. Your team grows without you holding every hand. The architecture decisions land right, first time.
Mike keeps infrastructure reliable and coaches leadership through the decisions that matter most.
He's been central to leadership teams at Demon Internet (UK's first consumer ISP), Redbus Interhouse (revolutionising UK data centres), and platform teams at Facebook and Deliveroo. He's told boards when it was time to shut down, navigated acquisitions and IPOs, and given technical founders the faith they need to back big-bang migrations when gradual approaches wouldn't work.
He orchestrates impossible migrations. Mike led a zero-downtime Kafka migration across 40+ teams and 30k messages/second — something the cloud provider said had never been done. It became their playbook.
He shields engineers while earning leadership trust. Mike distills technical depth into clarity for boards, and translates business constraints into actionable plans for teams.
He's closed the doors. Mike has told boards when it was time to shut down. He's navigated acquisitions, funding rounds, IPOs. He knows what real stakes look like.
When Mike's involved, you sleep better. The migration will work. The decision is sound. The 3am incident won't be yours to handle.
Across our careers we've built a repeating pattern: identify the systemic problem, align the organisation, execute the change, leave it working and self-healing.
We've migrated Kafka with zero customer impact — 40+ teams, 30k messages/second, no downtime. AWS turned it into their playbook. We've stopped recurring incidents by making reliability work as visible as features. We've built hiring pipelines, used them and left a trained team to scale it. And we've helped increase product velocity while we did it.
Each time, we gave leadership their weekends back. Board questions became easier to answer. Sleeping-hours escalations went quiet.
Together, we're more effective than separately:
Broader range means more you could delegate to us. Product + infrastructure. Org design + execution. Engineering strategy + hands-on delivery.
Faster trust means less time setting us up. One of us earns credibility with engineers, the other with leadership. We translate in both directions.
Lower risk gives you peace of mind, faster. We've worked through crises together. We know each other's judgment. You get a team that's already aligned.
You're not hiring two contractors. You're getting a unit that's solved problems like yours before.
Built a complete hiring engine from scratch, delivering 85% of roles while training the team to scale autonomously.
Gave reliability work the same visibility and priority as product features, ending the cycle of recurring incidents across 50+ product teams.
Orchestrated a zero-downtime big-bang Kafka migration across 40+ teams that even the cloud provider adopted as their playbook.