Robert Bradley

Principal Solutions Architect

UK

19+ years in enterprise technology, from developer and analyst roles to leading cloud transformation, Generative AI adoption, agentic systems architecture and large-scale platform engineering.

I work with C-suite executives and engineering leaders across Healthcare, Life Sciences, Banking, Telecommunications and Education, guiding regulated enterprises from initial discovery through to production, with a focus on helping organisations adopt AI safely and effectively.

Expertise

• Enterprise & Generative AI strategy

  LLM applications, agentic systems, multi-agent orchestration, MCP-enabled systems, AI governance, responsible AI.

• Architecture & engineering

  Cloud-native AI architectures, platform modernisation, serverless, microservices, Python automation, developer productivity tooling.

• Executive advisory & technical leadership

  C-suite engagement, enterprise transformation programmes, technical workshops and public speaking.

• Regulated industry delivery

  Healthcare, Life Sciences, Banking, Telecommunications and Education: compliance, security and governance at scale.

• DevOps & platform engineering

  CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, landing zones, pipeline automation, cost optimisation.

• Evaluation & adoption

  LLM evaluation approaches, prompt engineering, integration patterns, developer enablement and mentoring.

Career

Today I'm a Principal Solutions Architect at AWS, working with enterprises in healthcare and life sciences on Generative AI, agentic systems and the cloud platforms underneath them.

Before that I led cloud platform engineering teams in pharmaceuticals and financial services, and before that spent the best part of a decade in analytics, development and process improvement roles.

• AWS re:Invent speaker on DevOps, CI/CD, AI-assisted development and software testing
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect and DevOps Engineer (Professional)

The full history is on LinkedIn.

Skills

AI & emerging tech

Generative AIAgentic systemsMulti-agent orchestrationLLM evaluationPrompt engineeringAI governanceMCP

Cloud & platform

AWSBedrockSageMakerLambdaCloudFormationControl TowerAzureServerlessInfrastructure-as-code

Engineering & DevOps

PythonBoto3DockerCI/CDJenkinsTDD/BDDGit

Data & governance

SQLData warehousingETLIAMSecurity architectureRisk management