Mar 2018 – Present · 8 yrs · London, United Kingdom

• Deep coaching for tech teams. www.skillerwhale.com

Jan 2018 – Dec 2018 · 11 mos

• I do technical due diligence for Seedcamp to advise them on new deals they're considering.

Jan 2018 – Oct 2018 · 9 mos · London, United Kingdom

• I work part time as Upmail's CTO, and advise the business.

Dec 2017 – Sep 2020 · 2 yrs 9 mos · London, United Kingdom

• I work with fast-growing tech teams to solve a variety of problems: technical, scaling, hiring, management, and more.
• I oversaw the rebuild of an app which went from 2.3 stars to 4.6 stars on the App Store.
• I doubled or tripled some teams, hired new layers of leadership, and helped them build their products for scale
• I helped CEOs to work more effectively with their CTOs, creating more alignment in founding teams and leadership teams
• I made teams run faster and companies get more successful with CI/CD.
• I oversaw PayAsUGym's seamless rebrand as Hussle with 0 seconds of downtime
• I fought fires with teams when our payment system broke and customers couldn't check out any more
• I helped companies think differently about their new product ideas, and launch them sooner
• I helped data science to solve hard problems with huge datasets and few resources
• www.hcarver.com

Nov 2017 – Dec 2017 · 1 mo

Jan 2017 – Present · 9 yrs 2 mos · London

• I run a community of tech leads / CTOs / Heads of Engineering, who meet for dinner to build community, network, and problem-solve as a group.

Nov 2013 – Dec 2017 · 4 yrs 1 mo · London, United Kingdom

• I founded BridgeU with my cofounder Lucy, and I have run the technical side of the company from the beginning, growing it to 30+ employees across 2 offices (London and Hong Kong), and 14 members of the engineering team (10 permanent and 4 contractors).
• 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭
• Performance management: ensuring my team have constant feedback about their performance.
• Hiring: conducting interviews myself, designing a process, training my team to interview.
• Team development: creating a process to ensure the team are working towards their next career goal.
• Partnerships: managing from initial conversation, via integration, to completion.
• Company strategy: working on the long-term direction of the company.
• Compliance: researching regulatory changes and producing a company-wide plan for reaching compliance (especially with the GDPR).
• 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭
• Product strategy: making key decisions to set the product up for long-term success.
• Stakeholder management and communication: getting input, feeding back about work status etc.
• Prioritising work: developing long- and short-term plans for bugs, enhancements and new products.
• Developing ideas: coming up with product ideas, seeking them from the rest of the company, evaluating their pros and cons.
• 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠
• Software engineering: building all the initial versions of the product, making decisions about product architecture and technology choice.
• Data science: building an intelligent and scalable matching algorithm to recommend personalised higher education options to students around the world.
• Dev ops: managing infrastructure and ensuring robust processes.

Nov 2012 – May 2015 · 2 yrs 6 mos · London

• http://www.londonstartuptech.com/
• I consulted to early-stage startups in London to help them get from an idea to a product with paying customers and revenue. For half of them, I built their products, but the common thread between all of them was helping them establish and validate the assumptions behind their business idea. I helped many of them work out who their customers should be, how to market to them, how much to charge, what the value was for the customer and what the product needed to do to solve the customer's problem. I also worked with them to solve typical early-stage problems like making their first hires, and prioritising the 101 things on their todo lists.

Nov 2011 – Mar 2014 · 2 yrs 4 mos · London

• A friend and I started a company to improve blind people's experience of the Internet. Bootstrapped and later funded by institutional grants, we produced a technically successful product but were unable to commercialise it.
• Sadly, our old web domain has been taken over by other people to host adult content - nothing to do with us or our company.

Sep 2009 – Oct 2012 · 3 yrs 1 mo

• Working towards a PhD in computational simulation of neurovascular haemodynamics. This will lead to a software suite that gives neurosurgeons more data about the blood flow patterns within each patient's head, so that they can make better decisions. This will happen in real-time, at the point of care.

Aug 2008 – Sep 2009 · 1 yr 1 mo