Where Identity Product Solutions

Meet Architecture and Strategy

Whether you’re a data provider optimising delivery, an IDV platform scaling orchestration, or a regulated business embedding verification into onboarding, the goal is simple: systems that actually hold up in production. Connecting these moving parts takes clean architecture and practical product thinking—not sales speak or bloated frameworks. As a product architect, I work directly with teams to design and deliver identity solutions built strictly around what your platform demands. No gimmicks.

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About Mike

Executive Experience. No Fluff.

Europe based - available globally

"I’ve spent my career inside the identity and fintech ecosystem as a CPO and CTO. I’ve designed API-first platforms from scratch, integrated global data feeds, and shipped verification systems built to handle heavy real-world transaction volume.

My focus as a product solution architect is bridging the gap between deep technical systems—data source, biometrics, document authentication, routing logic—and the operational realities of conversion, latency, commercials, and compliance. No high-level slide decks that go nowhere, and no unnecessary bloat. Just practical architecture, direct delivery, and systems built strictly to your platform’s specifications."

Product Solution Architecture

API-first platform design, schema modeling, and latency optimisation for scale.

Global Identity Ecosystem

Deep experience across international data suppliers, IDV KYC/AML, and biometric verification.

CPO & CTO Track Record

Senior executive background leading engineering, product, and data teams.

Embedded & Direct

Hands-on engagement directly with your team—no junior hand-offs or agency overhead.

what i deliver

Architectural Clarity in Complex Identity Systems.

Three focused practice areas built to solve the technical and operational bottlenecks identity platforms, data providers, and high-volume operators run into at scale.

01 / DATA

Identity Data Strategy & Sourcing

Evaluating, testing, and onboarding data feeds requires more than a standard vendor review—it demands schema alignment, latency benchmarking, and commercially sound contracts.

  • Provider Due Diligence: Benchmarking hit rates, data coverage, latency, and operational reliability across global KYC/AML suppliers.
  • Commercial & Contract Advisory: Structuring defensible pricing, volume tiers, and integration terms with vendors.
  • Schema & Ingestion Design: Designing normalised data schemas that plug cleanly into your existing stack.
02 / Architecture

Product Architecture & Routing Logic

Designing clean, resilient API-first architectures that abstract vendor complexity and stay reliable under heavy transactional load.

  • API & Integration Specifications: Detailed endpoint documentation, payload structuring, and error-handling architectures.
  • Dynamic Routing & Failover: Building multi-vendor waterfall and fallback logic to maximise verification pass rates without spiking costs.
  • Legacy Modernisation: Refactoring rigid, brittle verification pipelines into flexible, modular orchestration layers.
03 / integration

Platform Integration & Delivery

Bridging regulatory demands and platform UX to make sure verification flows convert users instead of creating friction.

  • Onboarding Optimization: Designing KYC, Fraud & Risk journeys that reduce abandonment and false declines for regulated operators.
  • Biometrics & Document Verification: Architecting liveness, OCR, and document authentication workflows that meet audit standards.
  • Hands-on Delivery: Working directly with your engineering and product teams to get systems built, tested, and shipped—not just planned.
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Let’s Talk Through What You’re Building.

Whether you need senior product leadership embedded in your team, a focused review of your routing and data architecture, or an experienced hand to unblock an integration—I keep things flexible, direct, and outcome-driven.

No long lock-in retainers or agency overhead to get started. Just a straightforward, peer-to-peer conversation about where your systems stand today, what needs solving, and the cleanest path to get there.

Drop me a note to talk through your roadmap, diagnose a technical bottleneck, or explore how we can collaborate.

Embedded Leadership & Architecture

Working hands-on alongside your product and engineering teams as an embedded CPO, CTO, or principal solution architect to design and ship systems.

Targeted Sprints & Audits

Defined-scope engagements to evaluate API architectures, benchmark data provider latency and pass rates, or untangle routing waterfalls.

Advisory & Diligence

Practical advisory for commercial data packaging, vendor RFP evaluations, or aligning product roadmaps with compliance demands.