Fifteen-plus years turning strategic ambiguity into shipped, commercial outcomes — from a support desk, to co-founding Expert Agent and a £30M exit, to leading product & delivery at SPARK TSL.
now: Head of Product & Delivery @ SPARK TSL · building AI-first
Exit — co-founded Expert Agent, acquired by Zoopla
Payroll fraud cut with AI facial recognition at scale
Subscription revenue from self-serve onboarding at Zoopla
Users on AI features I took from idea to rollout
A career, versioned. Every release shipped to production and measured in the market.
Head of Data Management & Senior Software Engineer
Started on the support desk, taught myself to code to fix what I kept hearing, and helped build the UK's first cloud-based estate agency CRM. Acquired for £30M.
SaaS & Marketplace — PropertyFile (B2B2C)
Led product for the platform connecting agents, landlords and tenants — and built the team that scored the company's only perfect 10 engagement result across 600+ people.
B2B SaaS startup — AI, SaaS & growth
Defined the MVP and shipped it in three months, landing five enterprise clients in the first cycle.
AI & SaaS innovation — workforce management, global teams
Owned a suite of field productivity apps across UK, US, Romania and Ukraine — including AI facial recognition rolled out to 100,000+ users, privacy-compliant across regions.
Enterprise PIM SaaS — Digital Showroom initiative
Reset a slipping initiative with an impact-team model: clear outcomes, Kanban with WIP limits, value-sliced roadmap. Cycle time fell, throughput stabilised, trust returned.
Unified product & engineering leadership — healthcare and industry domains
Single point of accountability for the full product-build lifecycle: discovery and strategy through to engineering delivery and solution quality, across hospital, care, travel and leisure settings on one shared platform.
I still ship with my own hands. Both of these are in production — open them.
A CV you can interrogate. Ask anything about my product judgment, commercial leverage or role fit — answered with evidence by Claude or Gemini, with job-spec tailoring built in.
Open AI Resume ↗ AI · Full stack · ProductionStop overthinking, start spinning. Type what you fancy and AI builds a decision wheel live — real open venues near you, accounts and saved picks, a hand-drawn canvas wheel, and every spin instrumented in analytics.
Spin Wonder Wheel ↗// concept → production in days, not quarters. That's the bar for "technical fluency".
Three principles that show up in every team I've led.
I've worked from a desk in an estate agency and walked construction sites to feel the friction first-hand. Real pain points beat requested features, every time.
Blindly copying competitors ends in price-driven competition. I'd rather make the tough call now than ship a roadmap nobody chose.
Slipping dates are a tax everyone pays. Thin vertical slices, visible decisions, honest demos — momentum is a product feature.
My father walked 2,500 miles from Malawi in pursuit of an education, and called his book I Will Try. It turns out to be decent product strategy too: start before conditions are perfect, keep moving, finish.
Legson Kayira, author of I Will Try — proof that the gap between ambition and outcome is closed by shipping.