Bharat Parmar

Technology leader · AI architect

Technology that the business can run on, and the board can trust.

I lead technology at senior level in telecoms, financial services, retail and the public sector. I write the strategy, own the architecture and still build. I now work with organisations as a fractional or interim leader, on boards and on AI.

Available now for fractional, interim and board roles

Built and runningClaude Code · my own lifecycle Marketplace analytics platformLive Volunteer rota appLive AI learning libraryLive Image restoration pipelineLive Daily translation pipelineLive See the systems
Days to minutes

Time to an evidenced lending decision, on a Salesforce platform I built.

100-person

Development and test teams, including mainframe COBOL, moved into a large UK corporate.

On deadline

Ofcom One Touch Switching delivered for a UK full-fibre operator.

17 services

Built and running under my own agentic development lifecycle.

What I do

Four ways I work with organisations.

Each one draws on the same experience of running systems that customers depend on.

Fractional or interim CTO

Technology strategy, enterprise architecture and design authority. Supplier renegotiation, bringing development in-house and steadying delivery.

Non-executive director

Digital, data and AI oversight for boards in the NHS, the public sector and growing companies. Clear questions on technology risk and delivery.

AI architecture

Agentic AI put into live operations safely. Claude Code, MCP and multi-agent workflows, with governance built in from the start.

Telecoms OSS/BSS

Wholesale platforms and integration on TM Forum Open APIs. Ordering, assurance, switching and regulatory delivery for fibre operators.

AI in practice

I don't just advise on agentic AI. I build with it.

Boards need someone who has put AI into live service and knows where it goes wrong. That is the experience I bring.

  • 17 services built on my own server with Claude Code and MCP, from data platforms to daily automations.
  • Governance at every stage, with an approval gate before anything goes live and a full audit trail.
  • Data kept safe, with a secrets check on every change and each client's data held in its own database.

My agentic development lifecycle

Six stages. AI does the heavy lifting and a person approves each step.

Hand-drawn loop of six stages, Plan, Design, Build, Test, Deploy and Maintain, each leading to the next, with the note that a human approves every step

This website was built the same way.

What I've built

Real systems, running every day.

A selection of the systems I have designed and built with Claude Code under my own lifecycle. Each one does a real job for real people.

Data and analyticsLive

Marketplace analytics platform

A multi-tenant analytics platform for Amazon sellers. It brings sales, fees, advertising and stock together across 25 Amazon marketplaces in Europe and North America, and turns them into a true profit and loss for every product.

  • Profit and loss reconciled three ways, to the penny, against Amazon's own records
  • Each client's data held in its own database, with row-level security
  • Nightly data jobs with automatic checks, so a fault is caught before anyone sees it
OperationsLive

Volunteer rota app

Runs the security rota for a large volunteer team. Volunteers see their shifts and ask to swap from their phone, and the control room screen shows who is on duty. Admin sign-in uses two-step verification, and gate staffing follows Martyn's Law.

Training and developmentLive

AI learning library

Six AI courses turned into a library I can question at any level, from a plain-English summary to full technical detail. It sets quizzes, builds study notebooks and compares every idea with the systems I run.

MediaLive

Image restoration pipeline

Restores and sharpens photographs and video stills so they are fit to print. AI upscaling, subject detection and layout tools work together in one repeatable pipeline.

LanguageLive

Daily translation pipeline

Every morning it reads newly photographed pages of study texts, translates them and adds a transliteration beneath. The result is one dated study document, with space for notes.

Experience

Experience across sectors.

A high-level view. Detailed case studies of selected projects are coming soon.

  • 01Telecoms and fibreHead of OSS/BSS for a UK full-fibre operator. Delivered Ofcom One Touch Switching on the regulatory deadline and built the systems behind new products and a wholesale business.
  • 02NHS and public sectorSolution design on BT's NHS bids, including the winning NHS Spine bid, and a BT award for a medical imaging design. Security cleared work for the MoD, DWP and NHS.
  • 03Financial services and lendingBuilt a Salesforce lending platform that cut the time to an evidenced lending decision from days to minutes. Moved a 100-person onshore and offshore development and test capability, including legacy mainframe COBOL developers, into a large UK corporate.
  • 04Retail and e-commerceFounded, built and sold an e-commerce business. Today I run Amazon and Shopify platforms, stock control and reporting for brands.
  • 05LogisticsFulfilment, last-mile data and CRM programmes for a national logistics business.

Contact

Let's talk about what you need.

I read every message myself and reply within two working days.

  1. 1Send a short noteTell me what you need and when.
  2. 2I reply personallyWithin two working days.
  3. 3A first conversationA short call to see whether I am the right fit.

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