Portfolio
James Howe
Lead Cloud Solutions Architect, EMEA
Building things beacuse it's fun. Professionally focusing on security in cloud enviromnents and AI workloads. Current project's focusing on modern AI augmented development. Based in London UK, working across EMEA.
Projects
Athena
LiveAn AI-assisted prompt engineering tool. A two-panel interface — chat with Claude & ChatGPT on the right to iteratively build and refine an LLM prompt, commit suggestions to the structured prompt view on the left, and trigger a review pass when ready.
eCommerce Demo
Coming SoonAn AI-powered eCommerce demo built with Codex. Features programmatic AI integration, auth, and data persistence.
Speaking Engagements
Outsmarting Cross-Domaim Attacks: The Future of Cloud Security
The talk highlighted growing themes surrounding the identity plane becoming the most common attack vector for cross-domain breaches. In this talk I addressed common 'quick wins' and more complex approaches in behavioural AI to spot malicious insiders.
How AI is Rapidly Changing The Digital Landscape - AI Security
My AWS talk focused on discussing how the barrier to entry for black hat hackers was rapidly reducing due to the accessibility of LLM platforms like ChatGPT and Claude. Within the presentation I discussed the common attack process and how it could be augmented with LLMs to increase its speed and blast radius. Since this talk in December 2024, it has been validated by countless blogs from credible AI companies and new outlets.
Work Experience
Lead Cloud Solutions Architect, EMEA
Education
BEng Mechatronics Engineering, 2:1 Hons
University Projects
Project Type
Individual Dissertation Project
Final-year dissertation exploring the use of neurological brain signals to control robotic systems. An EEG was designed and built to capture cortical activity, with electrodes positioned to isolate motor and sensory signals. The research investigated optimal electrode placement across cortical regions to generate reliable control inputs for a robotic system — bridging neuroscience and embedded mechatronics.
Project Type
Group Project — Mechanical Design Lead
Group design project to engineer an off-road autonomous rover within a strict £200 budget, competing against rival teams on an obstacle course requiring zero human assistance. The rover featured a 7mm acrylic chassis, 3D-printed tracks, aluminium brackets, and permanently soldered perf-board circuitry. All mechanical and electrical design decisions were governed by a rigorous set of technical specifications set by the course supervisor.