About
Tally Digital is a one-person shop. That's deliberate — when a client needs a change, they get the person who built the system, not a project manager who schedules a meeting to talk about it.
Scientist by training (MSc Oceanography), programme manager by trade, engineer by choice. I spent five years running data infrastructure and regulatory reporting for a £250m government programme — 200+ reports a year, 30+ passed audits, and a deep appreciation for what happens when data processes break at scale.
Now I build the automated pipelines and integrations that make reporting, invoicing, and system-to-system data flow happen without anyone having to think about it. I code the backend, manage the infrastructure, and stay on the hook when something needs to change.
I work with small and mid-sized businesses — therapists, retailers, service businesses — where a £50k data hire doesn't make sense but the manual workload is eating evenings and weekends. The pitch is simple: tell me what you're doing by hand, I'll build the free pilot, and if it works we move onto the monthly plan. If it doesn't, we shake hands and move on.
How I work
Decks and proposals don't save anyone time. Every engagement starts with a free pilot — working output running on your live data within a week or two. If it's the wrong thing, we've lost a couple of hours. If it's the right thing, you already know what you're paying for.
Sensitive fields get stripped at the ingestion boundary, before they enter the pipeline. Session notes, personal details, payment data — if the system doesn't need it, it doesn't see it. Safer than trying to filter downstream.
Automations fail silently when nobody's watching. I wire an error-handler workflow onto every production pipeline, so failures become an email in my inbox rather than a client discovering the problem three weeks later.