Ecommerce Solution Architect
RFP reviews, modernisation initiatives, and comprehensive architecture repository audits for ecommerce platforms -- backed by hands-on experience with SAMU tooling and production AI stacks.
RFP & modernisation case studies
Multi-brand retail platform
Problem — Three regional storefronts on divergent commerce stacks, each with its own RFP process and no shared architecture standard.
Decision — Led the RFP response defining a shared composable-commerce reference architecture, then chaired the evaluation panel across all three regions.
One reference architecture adopted across 3 regional storefronts.
Legacy monolith migration
Problem — A single ecommerce monolith blocking independent team releases.
Decision — Applied the repository audit methodology to define service boundaries before any code moved.
Audit scoped the first 4 extractable services.
Vendor standards programme
Problem — No consistent bar for evaluating incoming platform vendors.
Decision — Authored the standards rubric used across subsequent RFPs.
Rubric reused across 6+ vendor evaluations since.
Microsoft Foundry
Evaluated for grounding RFP-response drafting in a client's own architecture documentation.
AWS agentic tooling
Prototyped agent-orchestrated repository scans ahead of a manual architecture audit.
Anthropic Claude
Used for structured extraction of requirements from long-form RFP documents.
Every modernisation initiative starts with an honest audit of the existing repository: technical-debt hotspots, duplicated capabilities, and integration risk, scored against a standards rubric before any migration plan is proposed.
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