Ady
Head of Engineering at Backendz
Head of Engineering at Backendz with 12+ years building production software. Owns how every Backendz system is designed, tested and kept running.
Ady leads engineering at Backendz. He sets the standards the team builds to: how systems are designed, how code is reviewed and tested, and how releases are deployed, monitored and supported once they are live.
He has spent more than 12 years building and running production software. He works alongside each project lead so the quality of a build does not depend on who happens to be on it, and he is usually the person who decides how a system should be put together before the first line is written.
On the blog he writes about what it takes to get software into production and keep it there: AI agents and retrieval, computer vision, offline-first mobile apps, data migration and keeping cloud bills under control.
Articles by Ady
- AI · 22 October 2026 · 8 min readPredictive maintenance with machine learning for UK manufacturersA practical guide to predictive maintenance for UK manufacturers. The data you need, why to start with anomaly detection, and how to avoid alert fatigue.
- Computer vision · 9 October 2026 · 9 min readAI video analytics for CCTV and what UK GDPR expectsWhat AI analytics can reliably do on business CCTV, what is high risk, and how UK GDPR, DPIAs and the ICO's video surveillance guidance apply.
- ERP · 6 October 2026 · 9 min readERP data migration checklist: from scoping to sign-offA practical ERP data migration checklist: what to move, how to cleanse and map it, how many trial loads to run, and how finance signs off before go-live.
- AI · 29 September 2026 · 10 min readWhich does your business chatbot need, RAG or fine-tuning?A practical decision guide for businesses building a chatbot or assistant over their own documents. RAG, fine-tuning, both, or neither.
- Cloud · 22 September 2026 · 10 min readCloud cost optimisation: where the bill leaks and how to fix itThe ten places cloud bills usually leak, how to spot each in AWS or Azure, the typical fix and effort, and the governance that stops the spend creeping back.
- AI · 30 July 2026 · 10 min readWhat separates an AI agent that ships from one that demosEvaluation harnesses, escalation paths and the plumbing that decides whether an agent survives real data, with a production-readiness checklist.
- Mobile · 8 July 2026 · 9 min readBuilding field apps for places with no signalHow we build mobile apps that keep working in basements, factory floors and rural sites, and sync safely when signal returns.
- Computer vision · 17 June 2026 · 10 min readGetting computer vision out of the cameras you already ownHow to tell whether your current CCTV cameras are good enough for AI, what to check, and how a retrofit computer vision project runs.
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