Azure architecture & platforms
Cloud-native architecture, landing zones, infrastructure as code and repeatable deployments. A foundation your team can understand and own.
Better systems.
Stronger teams.
Hands-on Azure architecture, AI-assisted engineering and practical training. Led personally by Adam White.
Principal engineer. Azure architect. Your direct point of contact.
Experience gained
with teams at
- Microsoft
- UK Hydrographic Office
- Schneider Electric
- Landmark
The right expertise.
Where you need it.
From the foundations of your platform to the people who build on it. Work directly with the engineer doing the work.
AI-assisted engineering
Remove the slow, repetitive parts of delivery. Keep tests, reviews, pipelines and monitoring in charge of what ships.
Reliability & performance
Load testing, observability and architectural fixes that help your system meet its SLA under real conditions.
Technical leadership
Hands-on leadership, interim principal engineering and delivery turnaround. Clear direction for the people as well as the code.
Build capability.
Not dependency.
Practical training from a working Principal Engineer, built around your team's code, pipelines and problems wherever possible.
- AI-assisted engineering
- Test-driven development & clean code
- Azure, DevOps & architecture
- SRE & technical leadership
Real work.
Concrete outcomes.
Architecture and engineering in systems where delivery, scale and reliability matter.
Read the case studiesMicrosoft · Met Office
Climate supercomputer programme
Architecture and engineering leadership on the Azure-based services supporting the Met Office's new supercomputer for better climate models.
Azure architecture & engineering leadership
UK Hydrographic Office
A new direction for DataHub
Two teams, 25 engineers, turned from a failing initiative into a delivery stream, with around £60,000 a year of Azure savings.
25 engineers · around £60k annual Azure savings
Landmark · Ofgem
Energy switching, re-engineered
A message platform built to cut energy switching from about four weeks to a single day, re-architected to meet its SLA under load.
Distributed systems & performance engineering
Schneider Electric
A platform for Wiser Home
From releases straight out of Visual Studio to Terraform, pipelines and a new UK-hosted IoT platform.
Infrastructure as code & repeatable delivery
Hands-on from day one.
Useful long after.
Birchfield Solutions is Adam White's software company. A Principal Software Engineer and Azure solution architect with 14+ years designing and delivering distributed, cloud-native systems.
Understand
Start with the business need, the people and the system as it really is. Get a plain account of what's working and what isn't.
Build together
Work inside your team: designing architecture, writing code and infrastructure, and putting tests, pipelines and monitoring in place.
Make it yours
Leave behind documentation, deployment plans and a team that understands the system, so delivery keeps going after the engagement ends.
Faster delivery.
Same standards.
Hyper-velocity engineering means using AI tools to remove the slow, repetitive parts of software delivery while the engineering discipline stays the same.
How we approach AI-assisted engineeringAt Microsoft, Adam established AI-assisted engineering practices for accelerated code navigation, test generation and incident triage, improving team throughput and reducing time-to-fix.
At Stonewater, he introduced AI-assisted engineering tooling for code review support, troubleshooting and automation helpers, to reduce cycle time and increase delivery throughput.
In both teams, the AI tooling ran alongside infrastructure as code and Azure DevOps pipelines, not instead of them.
Good work is a team effort.
“… Adam's exceptional ability to grasp the project from a holistic perspective and align it seamlessly with our business requirements left a lasting impression on me. His profound technical expertise proved to be an indispensable asset throughout the project.”
“Adam is a solid (and a SOLID) developer. Great part of a team, works really well with testers, BAs, UI/UXers and other developers. … He works well remotely and consistently delivers against deadlines.”
“… Adam is capable of turning people's ideas into reality. We hit a few stumbling blocks along the way but he came up with solutions which were never too much for him … He is quick to pick up concepts. He works great in a team.”
We build our own, too.
The same engineering discipline. Applied to platforms, everyday tools and original experiences.
Heartwood
A secure, governed Azure landing zone, built as code. Networking, identity, policy, monitoring and pipelines in one foundation.
Explore the Azure foundationApp Development
Android and iOS products. WeeklyShop: Meal Planner is coming soon to the App Store for iPhone.
See our app workGame Development
An original survival horror title built in Unity, currently in active development under the working name “Untitled Horror Game”.
Explore the projectMore organisations Adam has worked with
- Microsoft
- Met Office supercomputer programme (with Microsoft)
- UK Hydrographic Office
- Schneider Electric
- Landmark (including Ofgem energy switching)
- Office for Students (via Cadence Innova)
- DMI
- ALD Automotive (Société Générale)
- Capita
- Stonewater
- AND Digital / Yorkshire Water
- Pets at Home
- Cognizant
- M and M Direct
- JLT
- Emo Unlimited (including work for Rolls-Royce)
- Activus
- Group HES
This is a selection, not a complete or exhaustive list. Some work has taken place in confidential or restricted environments that are not named here.
What's your next
move?
Tell us about the system, the team and what you want to achieve. You'll be speaking directly with Adam.