Ian Myers

Professional experience

1. Mar 2026 – present

   Meladian Consulting

   Solution Architect & Principal Engineer (Founder)

   Independent consultancy delivering legacy modernisation, greenfield delivery and agentic-AI integration for government and large enterprise.

   • Modernise ageing, business-critical systems onto .NET, Azure and Blazor, de-risked and in deliverable steps rather than big-bang rewrites; rescue and de-risk stalled deliveries with affordable, deliverable roadmaps.
   • Architected and built the Meladian Form Build Service, a self-funded, pre-launch multi-tenant Azure SaaS platform that converts any paper or PDF form into a hosted, GOV.UK Design System-compliant digital service, starting with local councils.
   • Stand up structured human + AI-agent delivery workflows that raise productivity and quality together.

2. Nov 2025 – Mar 2026

   Accenture

   Consultant, DEFRA account

   Transferred with the DEFRA account from IBM.

   • Led knowledge transfer of the modernisation approach, application portfolio and delivery practices to a new offshore team, ensuring continuity of a long-running programme.

3. 2015 – Nov 2025

   IBM

   Senior Software Engineer, DEFRA account

   Consistently operated as architect, lead designer and technical leader, above a senior developer grade; promoted to Band 8 (technical track). Client satisfaction of 9+/10; recognised at IBM Tech 2023, Dubai.

   • Senior developer and lead designer on a ~£30m hybrid-cloud transformation; modernised 30+ legacy applications to Azure / AWS PaaS, achieving a perfect client satisfaction score of 10/10.
   • Devised the account's modernisation method (strangler fig + anti-corruption layer + enterprise design thinking, aligned to GOV.UK / GDS); first to introduce .NET Core, Azure DevOps CI/CD and UI wireframing; delivered the first DEFRA applications on Azure PaaS.
   • Took modernisation designs through the department's design boards and presented to senior civil servants and heads of department alongside the account lead; every approval passed, including a change to departmental policy on GDS use that approved Tailwind CSS for internal systems.
   • Led a £5m+, four-application modernisation; recruited and built a team of 10; all delivered on time, in budget, with zero defects above cosmetic.
   • Took technical leadership of a £750k programme in serious difficulty and drove it to delivery, growing it into ~£1.3m of work that would otherwise have been zero.
   • De-risked the modernisation category with a single live demo (legacy and modern systems running side by side on shared data), overcoming entrenched resistance and seeding a pipeline that delivered £7m+ of new business across seven programmes.
   • Among the first people on a large government account to bring AI agents into live production, using an "agentic delivery" model (guardrails + AI agents within patterns + reviewable Git commits): ~40% productivity uplift plus quality gains.

4. 2005 – 2015

   IBM

   Software Engineer, DEFRA account

   • First on the account to introduce TFS and automated builds, establishing source-control and build discipline ahead of the norm.
   • Conceived and built an in-house document imaging system replacing a third-party Unix/Oracle solution, saving ~£150k/year and still in production 15+ years later with no significant defects.
   • Designed a message-driven user-registration platform (AngularJS, .NET, SignalR, Windows Services) cutting registration from ~15 minutes to under 1 minute (15× faster) at ~30,000-user scale, removing a domain-admin security exposure by design.

5. 1999 – 2005

   DEFRA

   Systems Analyst / Technical Project Manager

   • Technical lead for an image data-capture system processing up to 100,000 documents per day.
   • Technical project manager for a ~£1m enterprise image-storage platform; expanded access from fewer than 5 terminals to 300+ users site-wide and eliminated overnight batch shift work.
   • Technical project manager for an operating-system and Microsoft Office upgrade rollout to 1,500 users.

6. 1997 – 1999

   WestCom Cumbria

   Software Developer & Hardware Technician

   • Built a distributed marketing platform linking a head office to three remote sites over 50 miles in the dial-up era (MS Access, VB6, custom sync scheduler); featured in the local press; top marks in the IT diploma project.