Jake Bowles

Experience

1. Sep 2025 — nowLondon, United Kingdom

   Chief Technology Officer · Synapx

   Technology leadership for a UK data and AI consultancy: technical direction, engineering practice and how Synapx delivers data, cloud and AI for its clients.

   • ·Set technical strategy across the data, cloud and AI practices.
   • ·Introduced agentic development practices across engineering.
   • ·Speaker at Synapx’s "AI in Action" event.

   AzureMicrosoft FabricPower PlatformClaudeTypeScript

2. Nov 2022 — Oct 2025Greater London, United Kingdom

   Principal Consultant, Data & AI Practice Lead · Expert Thinking

   Three years at a UK cloud consultancy, joining as a Senior Consultant and leaving as Principal Consultant and lead of the Data and AI practice.

   • ·Led and grew the internal Data and AI practice and developed the company’s internal AI tooling.
   • ·Developed and delivered a large, globally resilient cloud platform for an industry-leading UK company on well-architected principles.
   • ·BCS IT Awards finalist, Rising Star of the Year, two consecutive years (2023, 2024).

   AzureData platformsAI toolingWell-ArchitectedInfrastructure as code

3. Nov 2022

   ChatGPT is released

   OpenAI ships ChatGPT on 30 November 2022 and the AI revolution starts in earnest.

   Where I was: Expert Thinking · Contino

4. Jun 2022 — Nov 2022Greater London, United Kingdom

   Consultant · Contino

   DevOps engineer for a large enterprise customer. The engagement used Terraform exclusively for infrastructure as code, applied through Azure DevOps pipelines.

   TerraformAzure DevOpsAzure

5. Jun 2021 — Jun 2022United Kingdom

   Azure SME · Pax8

   Point of contact for every Azure question across the UK company.

   AzureMicrosoft CSP

6. Sep 2017 — Jul 2021Leatherhead, United Kingdom

   Junior Azure Architect · CGI

   Four years at CGI on the degree apprenticeship, from Test Analyst on a safety-critical Defence application to Junior Azure Architect on a large-scale Azure migration, while studying one day a week for a first-class degree.

   • ·Subject-matter expert in the infrastructure-as-code and PowerShell that made up the migration’s primary deployment method.
   • ·Moved an on-premise solution into Azure via a temporary hybrid solution, then a fresh cloud infrastructure ready for development.
   • ·Infrastructure developer on a Defence-sector project; test-driven development in PowerShell and C#.

   AzureInfrastructure as codePowerShellC#Defence