Peter Kappus

Enabling AI adoption at scale across the public sector — measurable outcomes, decision support, and governance. Full-time at GDS from 1 July 2026 (after concurrent FCDO engagement).

• Nurturing the 6k+ person cross-government AI community of practice; working in the open with published guidance and transparent knowledge-sharing
• Designing & prototyping a service for testing AI products (reducing risk, increasing confidence and adoption)
• Human and automated horizon scanning of adoption efforts and emerging tools, including a live Public Sector AI Tools catalogue
• Built an AI Guidance Explorer (agentic GenAI) — synthesises UK public-sector guidance, surfaces overlaps/conflicts/gaps; first iteration in under two weeks
• Developing investment cases and decision narratives for senior stakeholders
• AI knowledge capture: meeting transcription and a markdown knowledge base for RAG-style report generation and decision support

Skills & tools: Delivery management, facilitation, OKRs, generative AI (Cursor, Gemini, ChatGPT, Copilot), agentic workflows, Jira/Confluence, AWS (Bedrock, Amplify), Python, Pydantic, CrewAI.

Delivered first iteration of a bespoke contact & event management solution on Microsoft Power Platform for 10k+ users in-post and 1m+ contacts — risk-averse, high-profile, digitally nascent organisation.

• Introduced OKRs, weeknotes, and test automation (Playwright)
• Transitioned the team from scrum to kanban; coached them to run their own ceremonies
• Architectural decision records (ADRs) and SOPs; fact-finding on a critical legacy project
• Helped develop and manage a successful business case over £1.5m

Machinery-of-government transition from Cabinet Office to DSIT: GDS expanded (~250 → 1600+ people) to include CDDO, I.AI, cyber, geospatial, and the National Data Library. Spending review awarded GDS £1.9bn. Helped the new central portfolio team establish its delivery service for senior civil servants, ministers, and the public.

• Reduced ministerial-level report creation from 2+ weeks to <5 days via data automation and GenAI-assisted prototyping
• Designed and deployed portfolio operating models, governance, and reporting cadences
• Runbooks, capability maturity models, and a single source of truth for finance, workforce, TOM, OKRs & milestones, delivery confidence, risks and escalations
• Rapid dashboards and narrative reporting (Vue.js, Google Apps Script, AWS Amplify)

Skills & tools: Leadership coaching, facilitation, data modelling, Generative AI (Gemini, ChatGPT), Google Workspace, Vue.js/Vite, AWS Amplify / Cognito / S3.

Boutique consulting across organisational development, change, agile and OKR training and coaching. Named clients include HSBC, Diageo, Doctors Without Borders, Wikimedia Foundation, Société Générale, Credit Suisse, the BBC, White & Case, Ørsted, UK government, investment banks, hedge funds, and dozens of start-ups and scale-ups.

Work spans all three offers — delivery enablement, OKR programmes, and lightweight technical tooling when procurement blocks SaaS:

• Aligning strategy to delivery with OKRs; communities of practice; tooling selection and roll-out
• Lean portfolio management, business/workforce planning, and hands-on programme delivery
• Complex change (engagement, comms, kaizen); psychological safety; working in the open by default
• On-site and remote workshops; executive, team, and individual coaching; OKR audits
• Data automation and bespoke reporting tools to cut reporting overhead

Third attempt to roll out OKRs across a 200+ person organisation (40+ teams, 4 directorates) during the Cabinet Office → DSIT transition. Sceptical, overworked teams; portfolio group struggling.

• Trained and facilitated OKRs for 40+ teams; 30+ retained practice post-engagement
• Senior leaders using OKRs for portfolio management, impact conversations, workforce planning and budgeting
• Ambassadors, dozens of workshops (set / align / check-in / close), drop-ins, newsletters, and 20+ pages of open guidance plus videos
• Shipped a lightweight custom OKR reporting tool (Google Workspace, Vue.js, Apps Script) when procurement blocked SaaS
• Introduced kanban to the portfolio management team; upskilled a teammate in Vue.js, Tailwind, GitHub, and Apps Script

• Designed and delivered a hands-on OKR session for the bank's ~100 top executives
• Tailored with internal L&D via several design calls; delivered on-site in Hong Kong
• Outstanding feedback and strong engagement

Organisational agility, technical excellence, and outcome-centric goals for scientists and engineers using advanced AI/ML to design, synthesise, test, and release drugs faster.

• Trained and coached 250+ people across 30+ teams in OKRs
• Shepherded a community of 20+ agile & OKR coaches; mentored 10+ delivery and product managers
• Hands-on delivery management for the MLOps team; Team Topologies advice on value-stream TOM
• Strategy sessions for senior/executive leadership (30+ people); team charters and working agreements across 20+ teams

Faster, more robust AI/ML-powered pipelines for genomic medicine and research for NHS England and beyond.

• Trained and coached 250+ people in OKRs; embedded OKRs in portfolio governance
• Healthcare pipeline deployment cadence: 12+ weeks → <4 weeks
• Coached product owners and scrum masters across 2 major services and 7+ teams
• Codified “The GEL Way”; kicked off the agile delivery community; NHSE stakeholder sessions
• Hands-on delivery management for multiple teams

Two-day on-site workshop for IT specialists and product-owner stakeholders preparing for an agile ServiceNow delivery.

• Combined classroom learning with hands-on exercises tied to the live project
• Covered Scrum/Kanban, story mapping, backlog refinement, ceremonies, and an intro to OKRs / lean / kaizen

Lead agile and principal OKR coach across two tribes in an Agile-at-Scale transformation at a global investment bank.

• Transformation MVP (including TOM) for two tribes — 150+ people across 5 regions
• Delivery management for multiple teams; coached POs, delivery managers, and leadership
• Coached internal coaches; led the UK agile community
• Mission-critical platforms (listed derivatives, cash equities, algo trading) with 24×6 99.999% availability targets

Delivery and coaching for the 15+ year-old Proteus platform — commissioning and scheduling every second of audio on BBC Radio, and metadata for hundreds of millions of records spanning 90+ years.

• Mean time between releases 4 months → 8 days; deployment 4 hours → 5 minutes; regression testing 2 weeks → 1 day
• Re-platformed ageing bare-metal estate to cloud (AWS); Docker, HAProxy, Jenkins, Ansible, Rundeck
• Pairing, pull requests, test automation, and CI; hands-on platform operations alongside delivery ownership

Technologies: Java (Spring/Struts/Hibernate), Jenkins, Docker, AWS, BDD (Cucumber/Capybara), Jira, Confluence

Coached 400+ people in 20+ teams — including senior leadership across TV & Radio (e.g. iPlayer) — in adopting OKRs.

• Improved visibility across a multi-million pound change portfolio
• Designed and built bespoke OKR tracking & reporting tools in Ruby on Rails
• Refreshed portfolio governance to incorporate OKRs; mentored finance on joining investment and delivery

Technologies: Ruby on Rails, OKRs, Google Workspace, Jira, Docker, AWS, Postgres

Shared technology solutions (wifi, print, mobile) with stronger commercial arrangements across government.

• Process to roadmap and realise £1.5bn+ cashable benefits over 10 years
• Coached delivery teams in kanban for benefits via rapid iteration
• Built bespoke contract analysis, management, and forecasting tool (Ruby on Rails)

Operational agility and data-driven decisions around a £500m change portfolio — close work with finance, people, and delivery.

• Governance of £150m annual budget; business planning for the £500m portfolio in the 2015 Spending Review
• Built bespoke BI (Ruby on Rails) replacing vendor ERP — saved £100k+; quarterly → monthly delivery/finance reporting
• Month-end actuals 30 days → 5 days; devolved workforce planning via communities of practice
• Introduced OKRs (first GDS rollout) with a bespoke tracking tool; public OKR check-ins
• Beyond-budgeting style: monthly Delivery Ops reviews; quarterly budget rebalancing by performance and need

Delivered the Digital Marketplace — platform, frameworks, and support transforming how government buys digital.

• G-Cloud sales £2.4bn+ as of Aug 2017
• Direct management of ~£3m annual budget for a 30+ person multi-disciplinary team
• Agile coaching (scrum/kanban), complex stakeholder management; active in the GDS agile delivery community

Technologies: Java (Grails), Python (Flask), Jenkins, Postgres, AWS, Ansible — open-sourced via alphagov

Turned around two critical, at-risk programmes: Edexcel's platform migration (late and over budget) and real-time analytics / churn prediction.

• Waterfall → lean/agile (scrum, kanban); ITIL → DevOps culture; BDD via Cucumber / Jenkins
• Redesign and migration of Pearson Qualifications — £300M+ annual business, 60K+ pages — SharePoint → Adobe Experience Manager
• Real-time analytics with big data and machine learning to predict subscription renewals

Front-end/UX delivery and coaching for a customer loyalty programme — 14 partner organisations, targeting 50m households at launch.

• Agile coaching across multiple teams (50+ people); multi-million dollar programme spanning 3 regions and 4 countries
• Delivery across responsive web, iOS, and Android

Lean/agile product ownership and engineering for a big-data start-up — first-gen social media mining and trend analysis for the automobile industry. Market strategy, product, engineering, and biz-dev.

Technologies: AWS EC2, MongoDB, Ruby on Rails, D3.js, R

Delivery of a real-time social media management and analytics platform (web and mobile) across UK & South America. Sentiment classification, brand reporting, and early ML (Bayesian classifiers on human-tagged data). Transitioned waterfall funding/governance to agile.

Technologies: JIRA, Java EE, PHP, MySQL, Cassandra, GNIP, automated testing, iOS / Android

Front-end design and delivery of an award-winning Fixed Income (forex) Single Dealer Platform for a global Tier 1 bank — cash, options, and algorithmic trading. Introduced a bespoke agile design process inside the bank's legacy SDLC.

Technologies: JIRA, Confluence, Java EE, Silverlight/XAML, HTML/CSS/JavaScript, Axure

Delivery of a wireless web-enabled insulin pump with touch-screen UI (CE Mark; EN-60601-1 embedded software). Reported to the CEO; teams in London, Winchester, Poland, and Wales. Built agile engineering, UX, and defect processes before the VP of Engineering arrived; regular investor and board sessions.

Technologies: WinCE, ActionScript, C++, ANT-RF, GSM, HaXe, SpiraTeam

Led 350% revenue growth and grew full-time staff from 2 to 12 at a Seattle digital agency. Corporate strategy, account management, biz-dev, forecasting, employee development, PM, technical delivery, UX, and vendor management. Sold stake on relocation to London.

Technologies: Ruby on Rails, LAMP, JavaScript, WordPress, Flash/ActionScript, Agile/Scrum

Mobile content aggregation and distribution start-up. Built a digital asset management platform for ingesting, cataloguing, distributing, and reporting royalties on tens of thousands of wallpapers and ringtones. Launched at 3GSM Mobile World Congress 2006, Barcelona.

Technologies: PHP, MySQL, HTML, ActionScript, JavaScript

Interactive web marketing collateral alongside full-time roles — PHP, Flash/ActionScript, HTML, Perl, SQL, JavaScript.

Bridge between business, marketing, and technology after Corbis acquired The Stock Market Photo Agency (acquisition during 2001). Corbis Motion e-licensing platform, marketing campaigns, and vendor management for the Greenlight rights-clearance product (ASP.NET).

Technologies: Flash/ActionScript, ASP.NET, SQL Server, Perl, HTML, JavaScript, C#

Stock photography e-commerce (NYC). Built a Perl localisation engine enabling localisation of a $13M annual-revenue platform to five markets in under two weeks. Team of ~6 engineers; customer-support rotation alongside development. Acquired by Corbis in 2001 (exact month unknown); role continued into Corbis.

Technologies: ASP/VBScript, Perl, SQL Server, HTML, JavaScript

First role after university: Photoshop mock-ups → HTML (and ASP) for Kimbal Musk's start-up. Short-lived company; the role opened the move to NYC.