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What I Do

I architect and build enterprise-grade platforms. For over three years, I led the development of a Starlink Enterprise management platform at Liquidbinary — built for 10,000+ terminal capacity in year one with architecture to scale to 100,000+.

The platform we built is now branded as Aavora, running as a full SaaS operation. At handover in December 2025, it was managing 3,500+ terminals deployed globally.

The Journey

I founded Liquidbinary Ltd in 2010, curious about how companies work and fascinated by what you could build on the web. The early years were websites for local businesses like football clubs, taxi firms, and small trades. At the time I was still working as a quantity surveyor in construction.

That construction background shaped everything. I'd started as an apprentice in 1996, went on to university, and eventually found myself automating tedious surveying tasks with VBA and early databases. The pattern repeated: given any laborious process, I'd spend whatever time necessary to build technology around it.

In 2014, an opportunity changed the trajectory. A consortium of major construction companies won a £1 billion Scottish Water framework, and they needed an IT strategy. I spent a weekend writing a 50-page technology roadmap covering mobile apps, analytics, and centralised data. It made it into the winning bid. That led to a decade-long involvement with large-scale joint ventures, building everything from project management portals to compliance apps used across hundreds of sites and thousands of employees.

Those joint ventures were fertile ground: startup energy with enterprise budgets. We experimented with mobile development using Ionic, pushed the boundaries of what construction companies thought possible, and learned hard lessons about adoption, change management, and what happens when technology meets organisational reality.

From Construction to Satellites

The Starlink work came through a relationship built during the joint venture years. A telecoms company we'd worked with since 2015, providing 4G connectivity to construction sites, secured one of the first European Starlink Enterprise reseller agreements in 2022. They needed someone to build management tools for their satellite business.

I became one of the first developers in the world to work with the Starlink Enterprise API when it launched in October 2022. Over three years, we built a comprehensive management platform for their reseller operations.

As their business grew, we extended the platform to support a multi-tier model. They've since hired their own development team and we completed a professional handover in December 2025.

Liquidbinary Today

Liquidbinary is a small, focused Scottish development company. We build products and help businesses ship scalable platforms using battle-tested patterns.

Being small is deliberate. We know exactly what tools we use, what data goes where, and we don't have the pressures that lead to shortcuts. For security-conscious clients, particularly those concerned about AI coding tool risks, our approach offers something enterprises struggle to match: complete visibility and genuine accountability.

HyperKit

HyperKit is a template we've developed over many years for our own internal use. It lets developers rapidly launch SaaS products that are secure and production-ready from day one. We're now getting it ready to release as a product for the wider market, targeting Q1 2026.

The architecture has evolved over many years of enterprise development: server-rendered HTML with HTMX, Fastify for speed, MongoDB for flexibility, and observability built in from the start. It's also the foundation we're using to build the next generation of Starlink management platforms on the new API 2.0.

Tech Stack

Backend: Node.js, Fastify, MongoDB, Redis
Frontend: HTMX, Handlebars (server-rendered)
Infrastructure: Docker, Terraform, Packer, PM2
Observability: OpenTelemetry
Real-time: WebSockets, gRPC (for telemetry)

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