Experience
Operating at both team and Release Train level in large-scale SAFe environments, with a focus on flow metrics, dependency management, and cross-functional alignment to ensure predictable delivery outcomes.
Impact Highlights
- Improved delivery predictability through flow metrics and dependency management (EDF Energy, St. James's Place)
- Operated at both team and Release Train level within large-scale SAFe programmes, including RTE cover
- Introduced spec-driven development and LLM workflows, reducing rework and improving clarity
- Built and coached high-performing teams across varying Agile maturity levels (ASOS, Cognizant, Bluebik Global)
- Led multi-team delivery across UK and APAC programmes with complex dependencies
- Established delivery frameworks and operating models to support scale and alignment
Companies
EDF Energy
Senior Scrum Master · 2025 – Present
Leading Scrum practices in complex energy environment
St. James's Place
Senior Scrum Master · 2024 – 2025
Delivery leadership in wealth management
"Keni brought a calm, structured approach to a highly complex data migration programme... created clarity from ambiguity and built strong trust."
Roland Woodcock
Agile Coach, St. James's Place
Bluebik Global
Delivery Director · 2022 – 2024
Managed multiple concurrent international client engagements across UK and APAC
Clients
Vietcom Bank
SCB
EXI
Nanovest
Github Copilot"Keni has led the Agile delivery process across the company..."
Martin Simpson
Managing Director, Bluebik Global
Discover Financial Services
Lead Scrum Master · 2021 – 2022
Led Scrum Masters in financial services, improved delivery predictability
"A gamechanger... enhanced efficiency and coherence across engineering teams."
Joel Moskow
Principal Product Owner, Discover Financial Services
ASOS
Agile Coach · 2020 – 2021
Coached teams on agile transformation, built high-performing teams
Emergn
VFQ Trainer / Agile Coach · 2019
Delivered VFQ training and restored delivery trust for a stalled government programme
Clients
National Highways Agency
Glaxo Smith Kline
Cognizant
Scrum Master / Agile Coach · 2014 – 2019
Scrum Master and Agile Coach across six major client programmes
Clients
Home Office
The FA
CBRE
Elsevier
O2
Local World
Conchango
Senior Developer / Tech Lead · 2004 – 2008
Led cross-platform mobile and web application development for major enterprise clients. Later became part of EMC Corporation.
Clients
Marks & Spencer
Best Buy
Daily Mail
MSCSide Projects & Product Engineering
Founder & Engineer
Designed, built, and operated a global leaderboard-based productivity application with 25,000+ users worldwide, focused on social accountability and competitive motivation rather than traditional task tracking.
- Architected and delivered a scalable, cloud-hosted application supporting real-time leaderboard updates and global usage
- Designed core product model around relative ranking over task completion, increasing engagement through social comparison dynamics
- Built and maintained full-stack components across mobile and backend services (API-driven architecture, persistent data storage, and real-time update handling)
- Real-time leaderboard recalculation and ranking optimisation
- Social grouping and competitive cohort mechanics
- Push notifications and engagement loops
- Operated live production environment, including monitoring, defect resolution, and iterative release cycles
- Applied MVP and iterative delivery principles to validate product direction through actual user behaviour
Tech & Approach
API-first architecture, mobile-first design principles, cloud-hosted backend, event-driven updates, lightweight DevOps practices
Sustained long-term adoption with a globally distributed user base, demonstrating end-to-end product ownership from concept to live operation.
Space Launch Notifier
2024 – PresentFounder & Engineer
Designed and built a WhatsApp-based community bot delivering real-time space launch notifications and updates using automation and event-driven workflows.
- Engineered an event-driven notification system integrating external space launch data sources with WhatsApp messaging
- Built automation pipelines to track launch schedules, delays, and status changes, triggering real-time user alerts
- Designed low-friction user interaction model via messaging rather than dedicated applications
- Subscription-based alerts (by mission, agency, or vehicle)
- Real-time delay, scrub, and countdown notifications
- Structured summaries optimised for quick consumption
- Solved reliability challenges around third-party data variability and message delivery timing
AI / Agent Alignment
Exploring LLM-driven summarisation of launch data into human-readable updates. Investigating agent-style workflows to autonomously monitor, interpret, and communicate event changes. Applying prompt design and evaluation patterns consistent with spec-driven LLM delivery.
Tech & Approach
Event-driven architecture, webhook-based integrations, automation workflows, messaging platform APIs, lightweight cloud functions
Demonstrates rapid development of niche, high-value automation tooling aligned to modern AI-assisted and agent-based delivery patterns.
Certifications
SAFe 5 Program Consultant (SPC)
Scaled Agile
Certified Scrum Professional (CSP)
Scrum Alliance
Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
Scrum Alliance
Value Flow Quality (VFQ) Trainer
Emergn
Certified Scrum Developer (CSD)
Scrum Alliance
Kanban Coaching Master
Kanban University
BCS Agile Practitioner
BCS
Skills & Stack
Delivery & Leadership
End-to-end delivery management across teams and programmes
Team facilitation, PI planning, and Release Train engineering
Embedding continuous delivery practices and pipeline optimisation
Reducing ambiguity through clear specifications and definitions of done
Introducing AI-assisted delivery workflows where they add value
Building high-performing teams across agile maturity levels
Methods & Tools
Agile
DevOps
Tools
AI/LLM