Experience

Seedcloud

• United Kingdom
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Strategy Partner

  • Dec 2021 - 2 years 1 month

  London, England, United Kingdom



Skwire

• United Kingdom
• Investment Management
• 1 - 100 Employee

• CTO and Co Founder

  • Aug 2018 - Dec 2021

  London, United Kingdom At Skwire we develop machine learning models to forecast the UK's most valuable properties. • Designed and built initial proof of concept algorithms in 30 days. • Oversaw the design and development of algorithms to evaluate c.500,000 properties live on Zoopla and Rightmove daily. • Sourced, cleaned, and integrated 300 million data points for first AirBnB fund of £3m in equity with 93% revenue prediction accuracy in backtests. • Worked with buying team to create buying system in… Show more At Skwire we develop machine learning models to forecast the UK's most valuable properties. • Designed and built initial proof of concept algorithms in 30 days. • Oversaw the design and development of algorithms to evaluate c.500,000 properties live on Zoopla and Rightmove daily. • Sourced, cleaned, and integrated 300 million data points for first AirBnB fund of £3m in equity with 93% revenue prediction accuracy in backtests. • Worked with buying team to create buying system in Hubspot to reduce the time it takes for buyers to diligence a single property from 1 hour to 9 minutes. • Oversaw the design and development of algorithms to process 12 billion data points for AST database in readiness for deployment of £100m+ in AUM. • Grew technology team to 9 data scientists and developers. • Designed an automation enabled property management process to allow a team of 2 to manage a distributed team of cleaners and maintenance people. • Standardised company-wide systems for security, reporting, and governance. Show less



Big Sofa

• Furniture and Home Furnishings Manufacturing

• Team Lead (Freelance)

  • Jan 2018 - Jul 2018

  London, United Kingdom BigSofa has provided video analytics for some of the worlds largest companies, processing hundreds of terabytes of video per project to extract insights and market intelligence. I joined to improve code standards and mentor the development team. • Implemented code quality and parallelism across the test suite to reduce running time by half. • Gave presentations and mentored the team on code quality, reusable structures, and code patterns. • Implemented LADR files (ThoughtWorks) to… Show more BigSofa has provided video analytics for some of the worlds largest companies, processing hundreds of terabytes of video per project to extract insights and market intelligence. I joined to improve code standards and mentor the development team. • Implemented code quality and parallelism across the test suite to reduce running time by half. • Gave presentations and mentored the team on code quality, reusable structures, and code patterns. • Implemented LADR files (ThoughtWorks) to document decision making allowing new team members to become productive quickly. • Implemented Docker for development environment bringing new user configuration time down from 1 day to 15 mins. • Consolidated 5 different authentication methods across the platform into a single mechanism using JWTs. • Created processes for splitting out core components into gems, allowing independent deployment and testing, significantly reducing development time. • Led a rewrite of the main API using TDD and the strangler pattern, maintaining backward compatibility with legacy code. TECHNOLOGIES AngularJS, CoffeeScript, Ruby, Rails, Grape, RSpec, Travis, MySQL, Redis Show less



Property Technology Ltd

• China

• CTO and Co Founder

  • Jan 2016 - Jan 2018

  London, United Kingdom Co-founded in Jan 2016. I was responsible for strategy, product, and technology leadership. Part of a two-person management team that grew the company from inception to processing 10k+ property enquiries per month. • Designed and built initial product in 7 days, generating £35k uplift in revenue for first customers. • Validated market before dev spend by prototyping with 136 estate agencies and iterating on feedback. • Hired and led team of 12 developers across 7 timezones to… Show more Co-founded in Jan 2016. I was responsible for strategy, product, and technology leadership. Part of a two-person management team that grew the company from inception to processing 10k+ property enquiries per month. • Designed and built initial product in 7 days, generating £35k uplift in revenue for first customers. • Validated market before dev spend by prototyping with 136 estate agencies and iterating on feedback. • Hired and led team of 12 developers across 7 timezones to maximise working time per day. • Designed and built features improving enquiry to booking conversion rate from 21% to 67%. • Designed, validated, and built new lead qualification product in 13 days. • Designed and built features for new customers reducing onboard time from 1 week to 15 minutes. • Maintained 99.9% uptime over 10k+ property enquiries per month. TECHNOLOGIES AngularJS, Jasmine, Rails, RSpec, Heroku, PostgreSQL, Redis http://propertytechnology.co.uk Show less



Fling - See the World

• United Kingdom
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Head of Product

  • May 2014 - Jan 2016

  London, United Kingdom Fling - See the World had 5 million monthly active users who sent over 50 billion messages on the platform. I was responsible for product strategy and technology delivery across the company - managing teams of 20 developers, 5 designers, and 2 data scientists. • Combined design, development, and marketing teams to create and release an MVP in 60 days. • Hired and organised 20 developers, 5 designers, and 2 data scientists to release new features weekly. • Created processes for QA… Show more Fling - See the World had 5 million monthly active users who sent over 50 billion messages on the platform. I was responsible for product strategy and technology delivery across the company - managing teams of 20 developers, 5 designers, and 2 data scientists. • Combined design, development, and marketing teams to create and release an MVP in 60 days. • Hired and organised 20 developers, 5 designers, and 2 data scientists to release new features weekly. • Created processes for QA and disaster recovery maintaining 98% uptime over 50 billion flings sent. • Led a team to develop chat functionality in 30 days that scaled across millions of users. • Designed a spam and offensive content filtering system with 96% detection accuracy. TECHNOLOGIES iOS, Android, AngularJS, Rails, RSpec, Jenkins, Heroku, PostgreSQL, Redis, Cassandra, XMPP https://techcrunch.com/2014/07/30/fling/ Show less



Unii

• Computer Networking

• Head of Product

  • Nov 2013 - Jan 2016

  I joined as employee #6 and was responsible for all strategy and technology across 12 products. I led in-house and remote teams to deliver features growing Unii.com to 100,000 users. • Led development teams across 3 continents to deliver new features monthly. • Planned and executed strategy for delivering 12 student focused services. • Led a mobile first redesign that tripled daily active users and doubled average session length. TECHNOLOGIES AngularJS, Rails, RSpec… Show more I joined as employee #6 and was responsible for all strategy and technology across 12 products. I led in-house and remote teams to deliver features growing Unii.com to 100,000 users. • Led development teams across 3 continents to deliver new features monthly. • Planned and executed strategy for delivering 12 student focused services. • Led a mobile first redesign that tripled daily active users and doubled average session length. TECHNOLOGIES AngularJS, Rails, RSpec, Heroku, PostgreSQL, Redis https://techcrunch.com/2013/11/01/unii/ Show less



AdvancetoGO

• Real Estate

• Technical Director

  • Aug 2012 - Jun 2015

  Edinburgh, United Kingdom Led a team of 15 people to develop a property letting, management, and advertising platform. Built an MVC framework from scratch in PHP. Scaled the site to publish 9000 property adverts a month. We received investment from Richard Branson, Shell, and the Princes Trust.


Accendo Design Ltd.
• United Kingdom
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Technical Director

  • Dec 2010 - Jul 2012


Freelance

• Egypt
• Human Resources
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Web Designer / Software Engineer

  • 2007 - 2010

  Edinburgh



Sumdog Ltd

• United Kingdom
• Facilities Services

• Software Tester

  • 2006 - 2007

  Edinburgh, United Kingdom