David Pizzi

Public Sector AI Programme

• Appointed AI Lead for a department-wide AI adoption programme, owning the M365 Copilot strand — roadmap, champion network, learning pathway and KPIs
• Designing a phased adoption framework with maturity pathways and champion models

Public Sector Programme

• Operating in a hybrid technical and delivery leadership capacity on a UK Government programme, bridging architecture, engineering execution and stakeholder governance
• Introducing AI-assisted tooling to improve requirement quality and reduce ambiguity across engineering and business analysis workflows
• Named GitHub Copilot AI Champion; driving team adoption improving coding speed, quality and collaboration
• Transforming Azure DevOps delivery boards, improving milestone visibility and stakeholder transparency

Transport Sector

• Built CI/CD pipeline using Databricks Asset Bundles, automating deployments and accelerating productionisation
• Redesigned Azure DevOps project structure and delivered stakeholder-facing delivery tracking dashboards

Internal AI Innovation Programme

• Prototyped AI-driven solutions using RAG and agentic architectures; applied learnings directly to live client delivery
• Contributed to Agentic AI capability-building, translating proof-of-concept work into practical engineering outcomes

Public Sector · £40M Programme

• Led platform architecture for £40M programme, defining technical strategy and roadmap
• Designed Azure landing zone and cloud migration services using CAF/WAF/Mission Critical
• Managed 20 engineers across UK and offshore, strengthening delivery assurance

Mobile Service Provider

• Delivered platform upgrade serving 2 million users; optimised CI/CD pipelines, reducing time-to-market by 30%

Car Manufacturer

• Developed Azure Governance across tenant with 500+ subscriptions; implemented containerisation with Docker and Kubernetes

• Served as technical point of contact for Azure infrastructure delivery, inputting to design and implementation of solutions
• Developed Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and ARM Templates for repeatable, auditable deployments
• Established scaffold capability for workload implementation, ensuring consistent and secure landing zone patterns
• Provided SME knowledge around migration of specific applications and services

• Postgraduate module COMP1680: Clouds, Grids & Virtualisation — Azure, Cloud Computing

• Accountable for all technical architecture decisions; coordinated with CTO on engineering initiatives
• Communicated architecture vision and best practice guidelines to engineering teams across the company
• Led R&D, prototyping and documented architecture specifications for engineering teams

• Designed, implemented and delivered Desktop and Web applications using C#, .NET and Azure
• Managed Azure cloud hosting and DevOps workflow, maintaining platform health and delivery pipelines
• Architecture governance, DevOps tasks and Application Lifecycle Management

• Technical consulting delivering highly-innovative solutions with Agile/SOLID practices
• Conducted code reviews for client teams, ensuring quality standards and knowledge transfer
• Mentored graduate developers and provided technical leadership to the wider team

• Full SDLC delivery: design, implementation, testing and deployment of ASP.NET enterprise applications
• Performed code reviews and approval of other developers' submissions within the team

FP7 European Project CEEDs

• Developed Narrative Systems in C# for EU FP7 project; mentored research assistants
• Produced research reports and publications for EU deliverables and international conferences

DTI BARDS Project with Eidos Interactive

• Developed C++ AI planners (HSP, HTN) for gaming; published in VRST, IEEE, AAAI, ICIDS
• Developed an authoring tool enabling game designers to formalise, visualise and validate level solutions as automatically generated storyboards