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Nick OsbornNick Osborn

Customer-facing engineering / Applied AI

Make the
complex
work.

I’m Nick Osborn. I turn messy customer needs into working systems - from enterprise integrations and AI-assisted workflows to SaaS products and critical communications.

At the intersection

Discovery → architecture → delivery

I work close to the people and the problem, then build a path from a useful prototype to something teams can actually use.

Sheffield, UKEnterprise systems / Product engineering / AIScroll to explore ↓

01 / Selected work

Built around
real problems.

Five examples across AI integration, customer data, independent product building and enterprise delivery. Each project shows the problem, my contribution and the approach.

02 / How I work

Engineer.
Translator.
Builder.

I’m most useful when the problem is only partly defined, the systems are complicated and the solution has to work for real people.

My work spans presales discovery, hands-on solution architecture, integrations, AI-assisted development and operational delivery. I start with the workflow and constraints, choose the smallest useful building blocks, then test the result with the people who will use it.

In discovery, I work through the customer's current process with the people who own each step. I use their data and prior conversations, prepare questions around the gaps, and map the workflow before deciding what to build. AI can accelerate transcript and data analysis, but I keep the process understanding and decisions with me.

That also means establishing boundaries early. In one portal evaluation I mapped detailed access and asset requirements against the product's actual capabilities, explored an alternative already used by the customer's business, and made the gaps clear while there was still room to choose a workable route. I bring the same discipline to technical and non-functional requirements responses.

I use coding agents as part of the development process. My contribution includes framing the problem, designing the system and interfaces, directing implementation, evaluating results and resolving the gaps between a demo and a usable solution.

03 / Experience

Across the
whole stack.

A career across customer-facing engineering, founding and building products, and delivering enterprise systems.

Pimberly

Presales Consultant

Customer discovery, demonstrations, custom demo design and MCP integration.

PropertyPipeline

Co-founder / Technical Architect

Architecture and development of a SaaS CRM for property investors.

Wolf & Sword

Founder / Solutions Architect

Custom development, integrations and technical consulting.

Enterprise communications consulting

Lead Engineer / Solutions Architect

Enterprise communications design, migration and delivery.

04 / Capabilities

Tools for the job.

Enterprise AI & Integration

  • MCP architecture
  • REST APIs
  • AI-assisted development
  • Embeddings and search evaluation

Customer-facing engineering

  • Technical discovery
  • As-is process mapping
  • Solution architecture
  • Custom demonstrations and pilots
  • Technical assurance and NFR responses

Product & infrastructure

  • SaaS architecture
  • Multi-tenant systems
  • Integration design
  • Operational troubleshooting

Communications

  • SIP
  • Session Border Controllers
  • Microsoft Teams

Programming & data

  • JavaScript and TypeScript - MCP tooling and AI-assisted application development
  • SQL and Postgres - schemas and Supabase-backed applications
  • Product data modelling - schemas, taxonomies and feed mappings

Integration & delivery

  • API constraint and rate-limit analysis
  • Throughput and scale assessment
  • Scheduled cutover design
  • Middleware and iPaaS architecture

The next conversation

From a real problem
to a working system.

If this is the sort of work you need, I'd be glad to talk.