Curriculum vitae
Daniel Bryars
I'm a software engineer, mechatronics engineer and hands-on architect with commercial judgement, energy and enthusiasm. I co-founded a profitable SaaS business, grew it to 40 staff and £8M ARR and took it through to exit. I've led hybrid platforms in regulated payments and telecoms; now I build robotics software and AI infrastructure.
The recurring question: how do we know this is really working?
Robotics, AI and offshore systems
Current engineering and research
MSc study ran alongside GovInsight and contract work at Fugro and NEOintralogistics.
Staff Engineer - NEOintralogistics
Contract: August-December 2025. Permanent: January 2026-present.
Built the Universal Robots script-composition system and stock-allocation algorithm. Developing a warehouse management system (WMS) coordinating robot arms and autonomous mobile robots (AMRs).
Kratos - independent AI training platform
Built a platform for curating datasets, scheduling training jobs and tracing models to their data and runs, using GCP, MLflow and Python workers.
University of Leeds MSc AI - Robot-learning research
Researched explicit spatial conditioning for action-chunking policies to help robots generalise to new object positions. Built data capture, PyTorch training and evaluation through to physical deployment. Public datasets and model checkpoints.
Software Developer (contract) - Fugro
Developed distributed weather-telemetry software for offshore ships, oil rigs and helicopter operations, using RabbitMQ for multiple clients including Equinor.
Technical Co-founder - GovInsight
Co-founded a nonprofit with a local councillor; built AI prototypes turning council proceedings into personalised newsletters for residents.
Technical leadership
Teams and business growth
Head of Technology and Strategy EMEA - Dubber
Post-acquisition earn-out. Led 20 engineers and owned a 300+ service hybrid platform across two datacentres, AWS and Azure. Set architecture, SLAs and roadmap with customers, Product and Sales; remained hands-on in C, C# and JavaScript.
Co-founder, CTO / Technical Director - Aeriandi/Speik
Co-founded Aeriandi and led technical strategy through the Voxygen merger into Speik and the £21.5M sale to Dubber.
Built cross-functional teams, hired and mentored engineers, and planned resources against a 24-month roadmap. Turned commercial and customer priorities into specifications, statements of work and partner delivery plans.
Owned architecture and delivery while spending at least half my time coding. Led the AWS microservices migration with Helm, Kubernetes and Terraform. Built a no-code SaaS platform that helped double revenue from £2M to £4M in 18 months.
Built and led systems vetted by Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds and Royal Bank of Canada, serving hundreds of branches and thousands of employees across multiple time zones.
Designed a patented PCI-compliant voice-payment platform adopted by Scottish Power, Three and Vodafone.
Rebuilt reliability after a multi-site failure using FMEA and defensive design; sustained 100% SLA compliance year on year.
Earlier engineering
Motorsport and Formula One
Research and Design Engineer - Red Bull Racing
Delivered R&D software, hardware and automated systems in Formula One.
Lead F1 Build Programme Manager - Jaguar Racing
Coordinated cross-functional design, manufacture and build of race-ready F1 cars; met all programme milestones.
Programme Manager / Field Applications Engineer - Pi Research / Cosworth
Delivered embedded software, telemetry, robotic scanning and engine-test systems, with field assignments across Australia, Brazil, Canada, Europe, Japan, Mexico and the USA.
Technical skills
AI coding: AI First; spec-driven development with Claude, Codex, DeepSeek and OpenCode.
- Languages
- BBC BASIC, C/C++ (including embedded C), C#, JavaScript/TypeScript, Lua, Python, SQL
- Robotics and AI
- CAN, CUDA, Hugging Face, LeRobot, MLflow, MuJoCo, PyTorch, ROS 2, W&B
- Platforms
- AWS, Azure, Bicep, CI/CD, Docker, GCP, Helm, Kubernetes, Linux, MySQL, RabbitMQ, SQL Server, Terraform
- Reliability
- FMEA, GDB, Grafana, incident response, Loki, OpenTracing, Prometheus, SLOs/SLAs
Education
Qualifications
- MSc Artificial Intelligence with Distinction - University of Leeds, 2026.
- BEng (Hons) Mechatronics - University of Leeds, 1997.
- AI Residency - ML Institute, 2025.
Courses: Containers; FMEA.
Patents
Secure voice payments
Two granted European patents: EP3230933B1 and EP3230934B1.
Outside work
Workshop and squash
Built my family home as principal contractor. Workshop: a 3D printer, Blender, ESP32/Arduino, FreeCAD, three robot arms and two lathes. League squash player.
Contact
Worth a conversation?
Based in Oxford, UK. Email is the quickest route.