Enterprise · Pre-sales & post-sales

Solutions
architect.

I turn enterprise requirements into solutions customers can evaluate, implement and support. My work includes cloud modernisation, production document AI and enterprise integration.

Hadera, Israel
UK citizen. No UK sponsorship required.Based in Israel. Planning UK relocation.
THE CUSTOMER SOLUTION LIFECYCLEPRE-SALES / POST-SALES
DiscoveryCustomer needs & business value
ArchitectureFeasible solutions & prototypes
s.SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT
ImplementationIntegration & customer delivery
Support & adoptionOnboarding, training & reliability
Simon Stirling
Customer needs. Technical clarity.Pre-sales, delivery & adoption.
Seeking full-time pre-sales, post-sales, enterprise architecture and solutions architect roles.Explore my expertise
20+Years in enterprise systems,
architecture & delivery
Production document AI.
.NET, APIs & LLM integration.
Cloud & manufacturing data.
Architecture into production.
Customer delivery.
Discovery through support.
01CUSTOMER SOLUTIONS IN PRACTICE

Enterprise problems.
Customer delivery.

Examples from my work in architecture and delivery. Customer details are anonymised; each example states its delivery stage.

Explore projects & case studies
Production
Pre-sales

From discovery to a production cloud platform

An enterprise cloud opportunity for a customer whose disconnected inventory and operational systems limited visibility and created manual work.

ResultThe approved proposal progressed into production, improving operational visibility, reducing manual processes and supporting lower operating costs.

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Technical discoverySolution designPrototype demosPhased delivery
Production
Enterprise architecture

Enterprise document AI

Architecture and delivery of an LLM-powered platform for document analysis, extraction, contextual summaries and structured workflow responses.

ResultDeployed for multiple operational users and recurring document workloads, with ongoing development and support.

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.NETREST APIsSQL ServerLLM integration
Production
Post-sales

Enterprise support & service reliability

Architecture, operational reliability and technical support for a production vehicle-inspection and regulatory-information platform.

ResultImproved stability, reduced recurring incidents and made support more efficient through database query optimisation, monitoring, exception handling and consistent integration patterns.

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Production supportRoot-cause analysisSLA managementMonitoring
INDEPENDENT BUILDS / SYNTHETIC DATA

Selected live demos.
Try the decisions yourself.

Compare a proposal, inspect retrieval evidence or recover a failed integration. Each build has source code and an architecture walkthrough.Explore all five demos

Public code and technical experiments. Explore my GitHub.
02WHAT I BRING

Pre-sales, architecture
and post-sales.

How I support customers and delivery teams.

01

Pre-sales & solution consulting

Lead discovery, compare architecture options and demonstrate the proposed solution. Prepare technical proposals, estimates and the handover into delivery.

Discovery & qualificationDemos & PoCsTechnical proposals
02

Enterprise solution architecture

Assess applications, data flows and integration dependencies. Design cloud and enterprise solutions with documented trade-offs and phased implementation plans.

Application & integration designCloud architectureTechnical roadmaps
03

Post-sales & implementation

Guide implementation and onboarding, investigate production issues, and coordinate fixes and controlled releases across development and support teams.

Implementation & integrationOnboarding & supportTechnical troubleshooting
04

Customer enablement & adoption

Run customer workshops, demonstrations and practical training. Help business and engineering audiences understand technical choices and adopt the solution.

Customer workshopsTechnical trainingDeveloper mentoring
Simon Stirling, pre-sales and post-sales solutions architect
SIMON B. STIRLINGSolutions architecture.
03THE PERSON BEHIND THE WORK

Technical depth.
Customer focus.

I work with business stakeholders and engineering teams, from the first technical assessment through production delivery and support.

Alongside architecture and hands-on development, I deliver customer workshops and practical training for technical and business audiences.

BSc Computer Science, University of the People. UK citizen with full UK working rights.

04THE JOURNEY SO FAR

From proposal
to delivery
& support.

The full story, in my CV
2005 to present

Lead solution architect

Flame-Ware Solutions Ltd

Lead enterprise customer engagements from discovery through proposals, architecture and production support. Coordinate delivery teams, demonstrate options and resolve technical issues after deployment.

Additional roles: CTO and co-owner.
2017 to present

Lead IT architect, head of R&D, sales & support

Brama Technological Lab

Combine infrastructure and secure-systems architecture with R&D, customer assessments and supplier evaluation. Deliver prototypes, product evaluations, technical sales and ongoing support.

2010 to present

Technology lecturer & technical trainer

Educational institutes, HackerU & independent teaching

Teach software development, databases, cloud, APIs and architecture. Build curricula and practical exercises for students and enterprise teams, and mentor learners through implementation.

2004 to 2005

Head of R&D / development team

CoolVision

Leading developers and database specialists on a global social networking platform with live video broadcasting.

2000 to 2004

Head of development & systems analysis

Public-sector medical-services technology branch

Led analysis, development and support of secure client/server and intranet systems for HR, personnel management and internal operations, alongside user training and support.

A PRACTICAL TOOLBOX

Architecture backed
by implementation.

Tools used across solution design, hands-on implementation and prototype evaluation.

Software & integration

C# / .NETPythonTypeScriptSQL ServerREST APIsOAuth 2.0Webhooks

Cloud & delivery

AzureAWSGCPDockerKubernetesCI/CDTerraformAzure DevOps

Applied AI & data

LLM integrationRAG prototypesLangChainChromaDBOllamaMCP prototypesData integrationPower BI
05NOTES & PERSPECTIVES

Solution design.
Practical delivery.

Practical notes on pre-sales, architecture and implementation, with worked examples and sources you can inspect.

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Professional development in AI, cloud and delivery.Explore 20 courses & certificates
06LET’S CONNECT

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your next hire.

I’m looking for a full-time role in solutions architecture or solutions engineering, across pre-sales or post-sales. Tell me about the role, your team and the customer problems you need to solve.

UK citizen. No UK sponsorship required. Based in Israel. Planning UK relocation.

+972545841058Hadera, Israel
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