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Mersey Cloud is David Channon's company. David has spent twenty-five years designing, building and rescuing production systems, at Porsche, Liverpool FC, Genomics England and the Football Association. Available for contract and project work across Europe.
Native English speaker and UK citizen.
Where David has worked
Porsche AG
David designed and built Porsche AG's enterprise cloud account vending platform, migrating it from a custom PHP application to a serverless architecture. He provisioned, secured and governed every AWS and Azure account across the organisation. 2022 to present.
Genomics England / NHS
David built a cloud genomic analysis pipeline for Genomics England and the Leeds and Newcastle Trusts, scaling reliably to hundreds of instances and back down cleanly.
Liverpool FC
David built the Player & Match Data Warehouse from scratch, and owned liverpoolfc.com, including the Oracle-to-MySQL migration and the move to AWS.
The Football Association
David built a central data warehouse proof of concept for the FA's international squad development programme.
Mersey Cloud's clients
Infabytes
High-throughput IoT platforms, from a 100,000-device boiler estate to facility management.
The English Farm
AWS infrastructure for this UK ed-tech platform (Inkstone Ltd), since 2021.
Our services
Cloud architecture
AWS design and delivery. Serverless and event-driven systems, multi-account governance, infrastructure as code, cost and scaling control.
Legacy modernisation
Monolith decomposition, re-platforming, migration planning and execution. Systems that have outgrown their original design.
Data platforms
Warehouse design, ETL pipelines, large-scale ingestion, relational and NoSQL modelling.
Software delivery
NodeJS and TypeScript services and APIs, React front ends, CI/CD and deployment practice.
AI tooling and integration
Putting AI tooling into an existing delivery process, and building the workflows around it. Scoped, planned and estimated like any other piece of work.
Our brands
Fracsen
Fractional CTO & Technical Rescue
Senior engineering judgment for AI-era codebases — technical rescue, technical due diligence, and fractional CTO leadership, for teams whose systems have outgrown the people who shipped them.
fracsen.com →Agency Rebuilt
AWS Account Oversight
Ongoing, read-only oversight of your AWS account — cost, waste, exposure, access and backups checked on a schedule, with fixed published pricing and a written digest you can act on.
agencyrebuilt.com →FamAim
In developmentFamily AI Manager
AI-powered family coordination that reaches out to you. Instead of waiting for you to come to AI, FamAim proactively manages schedules, reminders, and family logistics via chat.
famaim.com →Get in touch
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