Daniel Dye

Summary

Product-minded engineer and technical founder with 12 years shipping software in London and Bangkok. Most recently at SpaceXAI as a core member of the Grok Build Product team (x.ai/build) - SpaceXAI's coding agent. Earlier Tech Lead / EM roles at UK DfE, Oyster, and MUBI; CTO & co-founder at Seekster.

Skills

Experience

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  SpaceXAI (formerly xAI) - Member of Technical Staff

  London, United Kingdom (On Site) · May 2025 – October 2026

  • Core member of the Grok Build Product team - SpaceXAI's coding agent (x.ai/build).
  • Owned a sunset "Grok Build" web app end-to-end that was used internally prior to the TUI release. Also a core member of the various desktop app projects.
  • Contributed with bugfixes and architectural maintenance to the Rust harness (shell) and TUI, primarily focusing towards alignment of the ACP spec and better client integration.
  • Designed and built a pre-release CLI in Rust so agents and humans can use the SpaceXAI console (console.x.ai) without a browser.
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  Department for Education - Tech Lead

  London, United Kingdom (Remote) · November 2023 – May 2025

  • 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.
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  Oyster HR - Engineering Manager II

  London, United Kingdom (Remote) · May 2022 – September 2023

  • Led the Growth engineering team (6 developers) alongside the Product Director of Growth.
  • Designed and oversaw the development of the global pricing architecture, built with pricing experimentation in mind.
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  MUBI - Senior Ruby Engineer

  London, United Kingdom (Hybrid) · June 2020 – May 2022

  • Pioneered the development of the versioned REST API, contributing to ease of iterative development and releases.
  • Designed and developed the system architecture for the MUBI Notebook magazine subscription.
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  Seekster - CTO & Co-Founder

  Bangkok, Thailand (Hybrid) · August 2015 – December 2020

  • Independently built a web MVP (Ruby on Rails) for an 'Uber for services' startup in Bangkok within 6 months.
  • Grew a technical team to 11 cross-functional members; fostered culture for ~45 employees with 2 non-technical partners.
  • Led pivot to a SaaS product for labour workforce management, leading to acquisition.
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  Oozou - Web Developer

  Bangkok, Thailand (On Site) · November 2015 – April 2016

  • Championed development of e-commerce, ride-hailing, and recruitment software using Ruby on Rails and React.js.
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  DGM59 (later acquired by LINE Thailand) - Product Platform Manager

  Bangkok, Thailand (On Site) · April 2015 – October 2015

  • 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.
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  DGM59 - Software Developer

  Bangkok, Thailand (On Site) · April 2014 – March 2015

  • 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.

Projects

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  Spellbook - Personal

  April 2026 – Present

  Agent Client Protocol (ACP) client for web, desktop and mobile (TypeScript, React, Electron, Capacitor).

  • Built one React codebase that ships as desktop, web, Android and iOS apps.
  • Designed a relay architecture so a session started on one device carries on seamlessly on any other.
  • Added a hosted cloud environment where agents run in on-demand sandboxes, reached the same way as a local machine.
  • Runs Grok, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and custom agents from one interface.
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  drenv - Personal

  October 2024 – Present

  Cross-platform CLI to install DragonRuby, manage versions and tiers, scaffold projects, vendor dependencies, and add DragonRuby LSP support (Deno, TypeScript).

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  Sing and Speak 4 Kids - iQsonics

  July 2024 – December 2024

  Rewrote client-facing web app in Ionic (React) with native mobile support and Stripe billing on a Rails backend.

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  Superwin - Tencent Thailand

  January 2020 – February 2020 (21 days)

  E-sports points-wagering platform in Next.js under a 21-day deadline (sanook.com/game/superwin).