about
Hands on, eyes up.
Hi, I'm Mike Holdsworth, a Singapore-based consulting architect and hands-on engineer. I've worked across systems and teams - through engineering, architecture, and delivery - tracking the larger picture. I enjoy consultative engagements that lift teams with productive, sustainable delivery approaches: Continuous Delivery, contract-first architecture, and, of course, LLM tooling - embedded where the work actually happens - in pipelines.
Hands-on by default - I measure success by what the team can do after the engagement ends.
Extensive Experience
modernising systems in regulated financial services
Large Engineering Teams
scalable practices - consulting architect across tier-1 APAC organisations
Reduce Toil For All
Auditable gates and reduced production lead times
currently
Incremental improvements to people and practices.
Architecture leadership, engineering mentorship, and continuous delivery culture - through reference implementations and outcomes, not slide decks. Currently: Consulting Architect at a tier-1 APAC institution, driving delivery through platform-engineering principles.
How I help, how I lead, track record →building
I ship my own software, too.
I'm always learning and sharpening practices because they've really proved themselves: Beancounter, a portfolio platform, and the iOS apps BeachDaze and ShiftChain - right sized approaches for the problem at hand. Built using consistent engineering principles.
Projects →Start here
If you would rather read the argument than the CV - these four trace the whole loop, from where a boundary goes to how a regulated release proves itself.
Services built to be consumed
Where you draw a service boundary decides which teams carry the cost - and whether it compounds.
Read →How contracts earn trust
A field report: how contracts grew from test artefacts into the assets a multi-market programme trusted.
Read →The platform is the product
Every feature on the roadmap depends on one you can't see. Predictability - not raw speed - ships the rest on time.
Read →The approval gate is not the problem
Approvals are permanent and push-to-production is never coming. The gate was never what disqualified you.
Read →All writing → Talks & workshops →
contact
Get in touch.
Singapore based, working across APAC. Email is the fastest route - happy to talk through a delivery problem before there is an engagement attached to it.