The bit I enjoy most is getting people into a room and helping them build something. Whether that’s a hack event where someone ships their first AI prototype, a conference talk that changes how someone thinks about adoption, or a meetup where people just connect – that’s the work I find most rewarding.
Over the years that’s added up to a lot of events – international conferences, podcasts, community meetups, hack days, and internal sessions.
Build with AI
These events are some of the things I’m most proud of. The format is simple: get a room full of people, give them access to AI tools and APIs, and let them build something real in a few hours. The results are always better than anyone expects.
London Dual Event
115+ participants across two back-to-back sessions
The biggest event I’ve organised. We ran TWO hack events at LBG’s London offices on the same day, one after the other:
- Internal session: 100 accepts, 65 LBG colleagues – deliberately cross-functional with engineers, product owners, and agility leads working together
- External session (GDG London): 120 accepts, 50 community members attended with 80 on the waitlist. 4.88/5 rating, +94 NPS
This started with a conversation at the GDG Community Summit in Berlin – I met Stefan, sketched a plan on the back of a napkin, and a few months later we had 115+ people building AI prototypes in hours.
GDG Manchester
The event that proved the format before we scaled it to London. External community hack event at LBG Manchester offices.
Conference Talks
Serverless Days Manchester – “Crawl Walk Cloud Run”
~200 attendees
A technical walkthrough of Google Cloud Run – from Cloud Functions and buildpacks through container lifecycle, cold starts, and scaling, to running LLMs on serverless GPUs. Wraps up with Cloud Run vs Kubernetes and why the answer is always “business first.”
Serverless Days Milan – “Wait, GPUs can be serverless too? Yes, and here’s how”
150+ attendees
Taking the serverless story international. Running LLMs on Cloud Run with NVIDIA L4 GPUs – how serverless GPU access changes the economics of AI experimentation inside the enterprise.
GDG DevFest Scotland – “Crawl, Walk, Cloud Run”
The Cloud Run technical walkthrough for the Scottish developer community.
Podcasts
Believe in Serverless – “Wait, GPU’s can be serverless too? Running LLMs on Google Cloud Run”
Main guest (livestream)
Deep dive into serverless GPU infrastructure – how Cloud Run with NVIDIA L4s changes the game for AI experimentation.
No Ordinary Tech Podcast – Serverless Episode
Nominated by Cloud Platform Lead as LBG’s serverless expert alongside AWS Serverless Hero Sheen Brisals
Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Advert | Write-up
Recognition
Engineering Learning Ambassador – awarded at LBG’s Reboot engineering conference, sponsored by the CTO Skills & Community Team. Recognised for championing team learning and sharing insights across the engineering community.
Talk Topics
- “Crawl, Walk, Cloud Run” – technical walkthrough of Cloud Run, from functions to containers to GPUs (delivered 4+ times at different scales)
- “Wait, GPU’s can be serverless too?” – AI infrastructure on Cloud Run
- “Build high performance apps for the edge with WASM in Go” – emerging tech, writing Go plugins live on stage
Event Highlights
| Event | Role |
|---|---|
| AWS Liverpool User Group | Organiser (Advert | Write-up) |
| GDG Manchester – Chain of Thought Prompting + Cloud Run GPUs | Organiser, Host, Speaker (Invite | Write-up) |
| Serverless Days Manchester | Speaker, ~200 attendees (Advert | Write-up) |
| AWS Liverpool – Observability Workshop | Organiser, Host (Write-up) |
| Believe in Serverless podcast | Main guest (livestream) (YouTube | Event page) |
| GDG Community Summit Berlin | Community organiser (Write-up) |
| GDG Manchester – Build with AI Hack | Organiser, Host (Invite | Write-up) |
| GDG Manchester – 3 talks incl. WASM in Go | Organiser, Host, Speaker (Invite) |
| Serverless Days Milan | Speaker, 150+ attendees (Advert | Write-up) |
| AWS Liverpool – Amazon Q Challenge | Organiser, Host, Runner-up (Advert | Write-up) |
| Build with AI – LBG London (internal) | Organiser, Host, 65 attendees (Write-up) |
| Build with AI – GDG London (external) | Organiser, Host, 50 attendees, 4.88/5 (Invite | Write-up) |
| GDG Manchester – Accelerate AI with Cloud Run | Organiser, Host, Speaker, 45 attendees (Invite | Write-up) |
| GDG DevFest Scotland | Speaker (Event link) |
| Cloud Inspire (LBG internal) | Speaker – “Crawl, Walk, Cloud Run” (400+) and “Introduction to Serverless” (250+) |
| No Ordinary Tech Podcast | Guest alongside AWS Serverless Hero (Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Advert | Write-up) |
Historical
AWS Liverpool User Group – “Gaming AWS”
Built a full stack game server hosting platform on AWS – CloudFormation, Packer golden images, EC2 spot instances, Discord bot with RBAC – then presented the whole journey at the AWS Liverpool User Group. The talk walks through every layer from first PoC to cost optimisation to security hardening.
Barclays era
- Mulesoft Connect London – 250+ attendees
- BBC Architects session – 50+ attendees
- Internal tech talks – 150+ per session
- API training for 350+ engineers