Experience

Founded a specialized software development and consulting agency focused on Ruby, JavaScript, and Go.

Built and launched a Ruby on Rails application from scratch, enabling schools across England to claim funding, while leading a team of 2 senior developers, all within 12 months. Adopted a legacy Ruby on Rails project and re-established engineering best practices and tactical refactors leading to 95% less slow page loads and swift further iterative development.

Founded a specialized software development and consulting agency focused on Ruby, JavaScript, and Go.

Led the Growth engineering team, consisting of 6 developers, alongside the Product Director of Growth. Designed and oversaw the development of the global pricing architecture, built with pricing experimentation in mind.

Grew the Growth engineering team from 3 to 6 developers, establishing hiring processes and onboarding practices. Drove engineering initiatives across the Growth domain, collaborating closely with Product and Design.

Pioneered the development of the versioned REST API, contributing to the ease of iterative development and releases. Designed and developed the system architecture for the MUBI Notebook magazine subscription.

Independently built a web MVP using Ruby on Rails for an 'Uber for services' startup in Bangkok within 6 months. Grew a technical team to 11 cross-functional members, consisting of developers, designers, and product managers. Fostered a positive growth-oriented company culture for 45 employees alongside 2 non-technical business partners. Led the initiative of pivoting the company to a SaaS product to manage labour workforces, leading to acquisition.

Championed the development of e-commerce, ride-hailing, and recruitment software using Ruby on Rails and React.js.

Promoted to lead the digital signage platform and manage a small team of developers. Designed an app signing system modelled on Apple's App Store. It opened up the SDKs so several signage apps, games and interactive experiences could be built in parallel with built-in user analytics. Laid the foundations of a CRM platform for businesses on LINE, including questionnaires and demographic segmentation built on LINE's internal APIs.

Pioneered a real-time, two-way communication platform with Socket.io. My prototype inspired the company's interactive digital signage product, and I built its server and JavaScript SDKs. Built a Node Webkit control panel for remote GoPro cameras at a water park, with live camera status and photo queues over Socket.io. Built Android registration kiosk apps under tight memory constraints.