Daniel Dye
@NitemaericMulticultural Tech Lead, Engineering Manager, and Technical Founder with over a decade of hands-on experience building software and engineering teams in London, United Kingdom and Bangkok, Thailand.
Technical Skills
- Ruby
- JavaScript / TypeScript
- Ruby on Rails
- React.js
- Go
- Kotlin / Java
Other Skills
- System Design
- Technical Strategy
- Coaching / Mentoring
- Cross-team Collaboration
- Project Management
- UX Psychology
Experience
Tech Lead
Department for Education · London, United Kingdom (Remote)
November 2023 - Present1 year and 1 month- 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.
Founder
Spellbook Technology · London, United Kingdom (Remote)
December 2022 - Present2 years- Founded a specialized software development and consulting agency focused on Ruby, JavaScript, and Go.
Engineering Manager II
Oyster HR · London, United Kingdom (Remote)
May 2022 - September 20231 year and 3 months- 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.
Senior Ruby Engineer
MUBI · London, United Kingdom (Hybrid)
June 2020 - May 20222 years- 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.
CTO & Co-Founder
Seekster · Bangkok, Thailand (Hybrid)
August 2015 - December 20205 years and 5 months- 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.
- Lead the initiative of pivoting of our company to a SaaS product to manage labour workforces, leading to acquisition.
Web Developer
Oozou · Bangkok, Thailand (On Site)
November 2015 - April 20166 months- Championed the development of e-commerce, ride-hailing, and recruitment software using Ruby on Rails and React.js.
Projects
Sing and Speak 4 Kids
iQsonics
July 2024 - December 20246 months- Rewrote client's user-facing web application in Ionic Framework (React) to add native mobile app support.
Superwin (https://sanook.com/game/superwin)
Tencent Thailand
January 2020 - February 202021 days- Delivered an e-sports points-wagering platform built with Next.js in an extremely tight deadline of 21 days.
Education
- BSc. Computer Science, 3.44 GPA, Second Class Honours · SIIT, Thammasat University, Thailand2010-2014