Jan 2024 – May 2025 · 1 yr 4 mos · London, England, United Kingdom · Remote

• Joined as the first full-time engineering hire, working directly with the founding team to shape the core product and technical direction of the company.
• Spearheaded the architecture and development of Vault and Treasury products, enabling real-time financial data aggregation, FSCS protection logic, and institutional balance insights for high-growth startups.
• Implemented user-facing financial metric calculations including blended yield, burn rate, and runway forecasting to deliver actionable insights for founders and finance teams.
• Built and maintained type-safe APIs with runtime validation and rigorous error handling, ensuring reliable communication across internal services.
• Authored and maintained internal developer documentation to support onboarding, testing, and long-term maintainability of complex platform features.

Aug 2023 – Dec 2023 · 4 mos · London, England, United Kingdom · Remote

• Pioneered the development of Searchland AI, an artificial intelligence product aimed at quickly summarizing comprehensive information about local planning authorities that normally takes hours to read through and deduce insights from (both emerging and adopted plans).
• Worked directly with publicly available government data sources, including HM Land Registry, Companies House, and the Environment Agency to build useful map layers for settlement boundaries, local plan positions, and create useful visualizations of housing data.
• Refactored legacy authentication system enabling the ability to share map variants outside of preset organizations within our authentication stack.

Dec 2022 – Aug 2023 · 8 mos · San Francisco, California, United States · Remote

• First hire, spearheading the development of core infrastructure, frontend and backend utilizing TypeScript, tRPC, and integrating with various third-party APIs.
• Built core inventory management product, distributor management system, alongside physical and digital payment integrations, deployed across 3 chains of stores in New York City.
• Revamped initial OCR application for digitizing paper records of inventory, integrating it into the core platform, which significantly improved the inventory management process.
• Hired and directed a highly skilled engineering team of 5 software engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation and high productivity.
• Collaborated closely with company founders, providing key input on strategic product decisions and the overall direction of the company, subsequently leading to $2.1MM of seed funding post-YC demo day.

Oct 2020 – Dec 2022 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Miami, Florida, United States · Remote

• Built and deployed a platform for three lending products (Novo Funding) to over 3,000 existing customers, responsible for over $5MM in loan origination within 5 months, shortly after growing to $35MM.
• Responsible for growing the lending team from myself, to a team of 4 engineers, and various stakeholders (~20 total team size), later contributing to $125MM of capital allocation.
• Worked closely with director of engineering and cross-functional teams in compliance, fraud and risk to ensure project success.
• Acted as a key responder in incident management, successfully handling critical service downtimes and implementing solutions to ensure system stability and continuity.
• Partnered with the platform team to resolve complex money movement and ledger-related issues, ensuring seamless financial transactions and maintaining the integrity of financial records in a dynamic fintech environment.

Jan 2016 – Oct 2020 · 4 yrs 9 mos · Bangkok, Bangkok City, Thailand · Remote

• Spearheaded the modernization of legacy PHP applications, enhancing performance and security. Implemented best practices in code maintenance and optimization.
• Focused on cleaning up and refactoring legacy code, implementing more efficient and scalable solutions.
• Developed custom WordPress plugins and themes tailored for diverse e-commerce websites.
• Played a crucial role in integrating advanced payment gateways and e-commerce solutions, including a specialized customization system for a truck tarp website.
• Successfully streamlined online transactions, achieving ~15% increase in conversions for truck tarps sold.

Dec 2014 – Jan 2016 · 1 yr 1 mo · London, England, United Kingdom · Remote

• Built, developed and inherited multiple platforms in the e-commerce space, coordinating the creation of sales funnels, reporting to a wide variety of stakeholders in projects across the globe.
• Adopted and rewrote Oceania University of Medicine’s student information system to fit with their initial business requirements.
• Integrated high-risk payment solutions for BiOptimizers and other e-commerce dependent companies on platforms such as WooCommerce, Magento and Shopify.