Independent consultant · Data, AI & cloud · Azure-first
I help organisations build the data foundation, work out where AI genuinely fits, and run it all on solid cloud infrastructure — from first idea to production.
Three areas, one end-to-end path — from the data foundation to AI in production.
The foundation everything else depends on.
Reliable pipelines and a clean, well-documented platform — one trusted source for every report and model.
Forecasting, classification and analysis that answer a real business question, explained in plain language.
Databricks · Spark · Data Factory · Fabric · Azure ML
AI that earns its place in production.
Finding the use cases worth doing and planning a pilot you can measure — before any big spend.
Chat over your own documents, agents that use your systems, and LLM-powered apps — with evaluation and guardrails built in.
Azure OpenAI · Azure AI Foundry · Azure AI Search
Infrastructure and software built to run.
Secure, cost-aware Azure environments defined as code — identity, networking and budgets included.
APIs, web apps and internal tools — tested, containerised and shipped with CI/CD.
Azure · Terraform · Java · Python · TypeScript
Products I build alongside client work.
Annotation platform
A cloud-agnostic annotation platform for images, video, audio, text and PDFs. Bring your own storage — Azure Blob, S3, GCS — and your own AI model endpoints. Your raw data never leaves your cloud.
R Squared is a one-person consultancy. The same person who scopes the work designs it, builds it and hands it over — no layers, no hand-offs.
My work covers the whole path, from data platforms and cloud architecture to AI models and the apps people use — and I build products of my own too, like Annotide, so the advice comes from hands-on experience.
Certifications
Both certifications have since been retired by Microsoft.
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