Currently reading Geopolitical Alpha — Marko Papic
Leading Digital Transformation · 45.5°N, 73.6°W

Hi, I'm Kaia.

I've spent my career helping companies see how they really work — then designing and building the software that makes them faster, leaner, and ready to grow.

Follow the route
How I work

I turn the way a business actually runs into software.

Not slideware, not theory — working systems that the people inside a company use every day.

01

Learn the business

I sit inside the work — the processes, the people, the edge cases — until I understand how things truly run.

02

Design the system

Then I design what should exist — the workflows, data and architecture that quietly remove friction.

03

Build & ship it

And I build it — shipping software teams actually adopt, that scales as the company grows.

Selected partners

I build with companies that refuse to stand still.

From wholesale and fuel to banking, security, healthcare, publishing and higher education — the sectors change, the meticulous approach doesn't.

Capital One
Banking
ADT
Security
Bestway Wholesale
Wholesale
Radius Telematics
Telematics
UK Fuels
Fuel & payments
March of Dimes
Health nonprofit
University of Leeds
Higher education
MODUL University
Higher education
Kilkenny Group
Retail
Aceville Publications
Publishing
LHA London
Housing
TLG
Organisation
Global footprint

Remote-first, everywhere.

Great software doesn't need a fixed address. I've delivered it while working from 47 countries — across five continents and most time zones.

On-site Work

I speak English and French, and I have the right to live and work in:

Canada EU / EEA Switzerland United Kingdom
Deep expertise

Five industries where I know the problems before they're explained.

Range is useful. Depth is where transformation actually happens.

Finance · Accounting

Billing, accounting, credit control, reconciliation and financial trading systems.

Datacenter · Telco · ISP

Provisioning, billing, monitoring, backups, virtualization and 20+ years managing Linux servers.

Digital health

Nutrition, wearables, studies, strict rules and care that simply can't wait.

E-learning

Platforms that teach thousands without losing the one.

Energy

Metering, telematics, renewables and the systems behind the grid.

The foundation

I came to business through computer science — not the other way round.

The commercial instincts are earned. The technical depth is where I started.

Doctoral research

PhD in Computer Science

Lancaster University

A funded place to push the boundaries of computing — and the rigour that still shapes how I design systems today.

Awarded a full scholarship Published in highly competitive journals & conferences
Taught at university level

Four courses, to the next generation of engineers

Explaining hard things simply — a skill I use in every boardroom since.

ProgrammingAdvanced ProgrammingDigital Systems (Assembly)Distributed Systems
Chartered Engineer (CEng) — registered with BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT.
Internal auditor — ISO 9001, ISO 27001 & PCI DSS.
Where it started

The first waypoint.

One of just ten students a year selected for Lancaster's Computer Science Innovation programme — on a competitive scholarship. From day one the work was real, and gloriously varied:

01
Energy Lancaster

Helping make Lancaster the UK's first “Smart Campus”

Sensors, data and energy systems stitched across an entire university — an early, real-world taste of transformation at scale.

02
Digital Humanities

Mapping the Lake District

Turning historical GIS data into something you could explore.

03
Lancaster Environment Centre

Seeing the environment

Making dense environmental datasets visual and legible.

04
HighWire DTC

Cloud video, early

Cloud-based video editing and streaming — before it was everywhere.

05
Knowledge Business Centre

IoT & home automation

Connected devices and the systems that make a home think.

Journey's end · What's next

So — where to next?

This isn't a pitch. It's an open door.

Copyright Kaia Hadley 2026. All rights reserved.
Kaia — Leading Digital Transformation
Currently reading Geopolitical Alpha — Marko Papic
Leading Digital Transformation · 45.5°N, 73.6°W

Hi, I'm Kaia.

I've spent my career helping companies see how they really work — then designing and building the software that makes them faster, leaner, and ready to grow.

Follow the route
How I work

I turn the way a business actually runs into software.

Not slideware, not theory — working systems that the people inside a company use every day.

01

Learn the business

I sit inside the work — the processes, the people, the edge cases — until I understand how things truly run.

02

Design the system

Then I design what should exist — the workflows, data and architecture that quietly remove friction.

03

Build & ship it

And I build it — shipping software teams actually adopt, that scales as the company grows.

Selected partners

I build with companies that refuse to stand still.

From wholesale and fuel to banking, security, healthcare, publishing and higher education — the sectors change, the meticulous approach doesn't.

Capital One
Banking
ADT
Security
Bestway Wholesale
Wholesale
Radius Telematics
Telematics
UK Fuels
Fuel & payments
March of Dimes
Health nonprofit
University of Leeds
Higher education
MODUL University
Higher education
Kilkenny Group
Retail
Aceville Publications
Publishing
LHA London
Housing
TLG
Organisation
Global footprint

Remote-first, everywhere.

Great software doesn't need a fixed address. I've delivered it while working from 47 countries — across five continents and most time zones.

On-site Work

I speak English and French, and I have the right to live and work in:

Canada EU / EEA Switzerland United Kingdom
Deep expertise

Five industries where I know the problems before they're explained.

Range is useful. Depth is where transformation actually happens.

Finance · Accounting

Billing, accounting, credit control, reconciliation and financial trading systems.

Datacenter · Telco · ISP

Provisioning, billing, monitoring, backups, virtualization and 20+ years managing Linux servers.

Digital health

Nutrition, wearables, studies, strict rules and care that simply can't wait.

E-learning

Platforms that teach thousands without losing the one.

Energy

Metering, telematics, renewables and the systems behind the grid.

The foundation

I came to business through computer science — not the other way round.

The commercial instincts are earned. The technical depth is where I started.

Doctoral research

PhD in Computer Science

Lancaster University

A funded place to push the boundaries of computing — and the rigour that still shapes how I design systems today.

Awarded a full scholarship Published in highly competitive journals & conferences
Taught at university level

Four courses, to the next generation of engineers

Explaining hard things simply — a skill I use in every boardroom since.

ProgrammingAdvanced ProgrammingDigital Systems (Assembly)Distributed Systems
Chartered Engineer (CEng) — registered with BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT.
Internal auditor — ISO 9001, ISO 27001 & PCI DSS.
Where it started

The first waypoint.

One of just ten students a year selected for Lancaster's Computer Science Innovation programme — on a competitive scholarship. From day one the work was real, and gloriously varied:

01
Energy Lancaster

Helping make Lancaster the UK's first “Smart Campus”

Sensors, data and energy systems stitched across an entire university — an early, real-world taste of transformation at scale.

02
Digital Humanities

Mapping the Lake District

Turning historical GIS data into something you could explore.

03
Lancaster Environment Centre

Seeing the environment

Making dense environmental datasets visual and legible.

04
HighWire DTC

Cloud video, early

Cloud-based video editing and streaming — before it was everywhere.

05
Knowledge Business Centre

IoT & home automation

Connected devices and the systems that make a home think.

Journey's end · What's next

So — where to next?

This isn't a pitch. It's an open door.

Copyright Kaia Hadley 2026. All rights reserved.