shri.cx what should exist but can't?

Where others
stop, I start.

Difficult problems, real stakes, and the mandate to act on them.

You'll know up front what it'll cost, how long it'll take, and when either changes. I'll take the hit when I'm wrong.

Transport Scaling — 12 years

Twelve years inside a moving system

I built and managed bespoke ticketing infrastructure that generated millions annually, including for megabus.com. Scaled from 200 orders per day to tens of thousands of orders each day.

Twenty years of production systems, running a company, and things that went wrong.

Read the stories

Arts & Culture Crisis — 3 days

Selling Tickets in Three Days

The Edinburgh Fringe’s £800k ticketing system failed on launch. They called us on Friday. We built and deployed an interim system by Tuesday morning — 65,000 tickets in the first week. 150,000 before the permanent system returned.

Founder Started at 18 years old. Five departments. Thirty people at the peak. 2000–2015. Strategy

Retail Longstanding mistrust. Three teams. Fixed it in days. Culture

Platform Notifications for half a million users. One person. Six months Proof of concept

Systems Custom PostgreSQL replication, six years before the tools existed. 2004 Engineering

Product Two builders. Did the marketing anyway. Validated to a clean no. Stopped. Validation

Most engagements start with an assessment. Two weeks, fixed price, £3,000.

I give you my honest read, in writing — the risks, the trade-offs, the caveats. Yours to act on, with or without me.

If it's already on fire, we can skip the assessment.

I'm available

shri@shri.cx

SC890602 forged in Scotland, for the world

Where othersstop, I start.

Twelve years inside a moving system

Selling Tickets in Three Days

Where others
stop, I start.