About

I spent the first part of my career as a civil engineer. Structures, loads, safety factors — you learn fast that materials don’t care about your intentions. Concrete has limits. Steel has limits. Your job is to know those limits, design within them, and leave a margin for the day something unexpected shows up.

Then I moved into Microsoft Dataverse and Power Platform architecture. Different material, same discipline.

Today I run Simple Smooth Safe, a solo consultancy. I design and build Power Platform systems for organisations that need them to keep working after the demo is over — when the data grows, the users multiply, and the original requirements turn out to be half the story.

Why “low-code that bears load”

Because I treat Power Platform the way I used to treat structural materials. It has real strengths and real limits: API throttling, delegation, storage costs, security boundaries. Pretending those limits don’t exist is how systems fail. Knowing them, designing within them, and refusing to decorate a weak structure with a nice UI — that’s the job. An app that collapses under the first serious data load isn’t a shortcut; it’s a structure built without checking the loads.

What I write about here

• Dataverse architecture — data modelling, security design, and the decisions that are expensive to reverse later.
• Power Platform limits and workarounds — where the platform bends, where it breaks, and what actually holds.
• When low-code is the right tool — and when it honestly isn’t.

No client names, no war stories dressed up as credentials. Just the load calculations.

If you want to talk shop — Dataverse, Power Platform, or whether your next system should be low-code at all — find me on LinkedIn.