United Kingdom
Developer with 15 years of experience in building well-architected, testable mobile applications. Recently converted a side-passion for decentralised finance into a full-time role. Especially interested in digital identity and how privacy technologies can shape how we build on public ledgers.
I had the opportunity to take time away from work to focus on passion projects and learn new technologies. Attended the fist Serverside Swift conference in Berlin. Built https://www.threadpaint.art and liaised with manufacturers to design and prototype a physical product. Built https://www.ticketsamaritan.uk with a companion iOS application. Gained experience with data analysis and visualisation using Pandas and Jupyter Notebook and attended a machine learning course at Edinburgh University. Wrote a HTTP client library in Swift and started a simple client for the Bitcoin network. Learned how to build a CPU from first principles (https://nand2tetris.org). Did some contract work with Utelly to help with release deadlines.
Joined at an early stage as the second of three iOS developers. As Utelly was a small startup, developers played a flexible role and as such I contributed to product design and direction, set up of build systems, documentation, team tools, and methods of rapidly prototyping new themes and features for deployment, alongside building the application and encouraging good code and workflow practices. Was also involved in some research into computer vision and GPU programming (CUDA) which I enjoyed immensely. Worked remotely with regular visits to the office.
Worked as part of a large and growing team to build the company’s main product, Badoo, (which caters for over 200 million users across all platforms), as well as the apps Hot or Not and Blendr. As the team scaled up I moved into a small core team responsible for the iOS ‘platform’ library on top of which the feature team could develop new features rapidly. Setup and managed TeamCity agents and build configurations before handing over to a full-time release engineer. Developed the greenfield project Bumble (with the former co-founder and designers of Tinder) from scratch as part of a smaller internal team.