Interim Platform Leadership
Head of Platform, Engineering Director and transformation lead capacity for 3-12 month engagements.
Simia Machina
Platform engineering and technical leadership for high-scale organisations.
Interim leadership, cloud transformation, SRE maturity and MLOps strategy for teams operating complex, regulated and revenue-critical technology.
What I Do
Cloud, platform, SRE and engineering transformation.
Simia Machina helps technology organisations modernise platform engineering, improve reliability, and scale engineering capability. The work is led by Niall Creech, an engineering and platform leader with experience across cloud infrastructure at AWS, sports betting and gaming at DraftKings and William Hill, national retail at Sainsbury's Argos, digital banking at 10x Banking, blockchain infrastructure at Parity and government technology.
Services
Engagements for teams that need senior technical momentum.
SRE and Reliability Improvement
SLIs, SLOs, observability, incident practice, operational maturity and reliability roadmaps.
Cloud and AWS Modernisation
Platform architecture, operating models and delivery plans for cloud-native teams under real-world constraints.
MLOps Platform Strategy
ML infrastructure and platform approaches for data-heavy products, simulation systems and AI-enabled operations.
Engineering Operating Models
Team design and platform product thinking for organisations that need delivery to scale.
Platform Assessments
Focused architecture, reliability and maturity reviews with executive recommendations and a practical roadmap.
Best Fit
Useful when the platform problem is also an organisation problem.
Industries
- Fintech and banking
- Gaming and betting platforms
- Regulated technology
- AI and data-heavy products
- Web3 infrastructure
Problems
- Reliability needs to improve without slowing delivery
- Platform teams need clearer ownership and direction
- Cloud estates have outgrown early operating models
- MLOps or AI operations need senior platform judgement
- Leadership bandwidth is missing during transformation
Experience
Built on practical leadership in high-scale environments.
Cloud infrastructure and enterprise architecture at AWS scale.
Sports betting, gaming and quantitative platform leadership at DraftKings and William Hill.
Regulated financial technology at 10x Banking and national retail platforms at Sainsbury's Argos.
Public sector technology and blockchain infrastructure, including Parity.
PhD background in distributed and multi-agent systems.
Contact
Available for interim, fractional and contract engagements.
For platform transformation, SRE, MLOps, cloud modernisation or engineering leadership work.