Jan 2018 – Dec 2019 · 1 yr 11 mos · London, United Kingdom

• Sunrise is an app that lets you book a photographer on-demand.
• Participated in the Y Combinator Startup School Program. Selected as one of the 100 most promising startups (out of a class size of 15,000) and received a $10,000 grant with other benefits.
• Ideated, designed, built and launched the app on iOS and Android (Sketch / React Native / Flow / NodeJS).
• Interviewed, recruited and on-boarded photographers in London.
• Designed, built and launched an app specifically for our photographers on iOS and Android (Sketch / React Native / Flow / NodeJS).
• Built the website and an online photo editing and delivery tool to streamline our photographers’ workflows (React / Flow / Redux).
• Marketed the app online via Facebook ads.
• Spoke to our early customers, gathered feedback and improved the product multiple times.
• Generated thousands of dollars in revenue for our photographers.

Jun 2017 – Nov 2021 · 4 yrs 5 mos · London, United Kingdom

• Built product infrastructure for Facebook Shops.
• Started a new team in Facebook Ads to help SMBs. Formed product strategy and roadmap. Tech led team.
• Built a new product for advertisers that optimizes their ad delivery for incremental conversions (C++ / Python / Hack / Machine Learning / SQL).
• Shipped a new product that lets advertisers create short video ads from templates using an editor interface from both the Desktop site and the Facebook iOS app (React / Objective-C / Hack / GraphQL / Relay).
• Shipped a new product that generates potential ads for small businesses to run, using content from their Page, and suggests them in a gallery format in the Facebook iOS app (Objective-C / Hack / GraphQL).
• Designed and implemented a platform to represent and edit video templates to reduce tech debt and enable faster shipping of video creation products across iOS, Android and Web (React / Flow / Hack / GraphQL / Relay / Objective-C / Java).
• Made various improvements to the UX of the Facebook iOS app to grow the number of active advertisers.

Jul 2016 – Jun 2017 · 11 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

• Built Unreal Engine and CryEngine integrations to enable more game developers to use Improbable's platform, SpatialOS (C++ / Go / Bash).
• Built a code generation step into Unity and Unreal projects that consumes developer-defined schemas and outputs native Unity / Unreal SpatialOS classes for use by developers (C++ / C# / T4 / Go / .NET / Protobuf).
• Designed and implemented a set of load tests to determine the marginal cost (in compute cores) per extra player client in a typical large scale MMO.
• Worked with studios to migrate their games to SpatialOS.

Jul 2014 – Jun 2016 · 1 yr 11 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

• Tripr is a social travel app that connects people going to the same place at the same time. 50,000 total registered users with a peak of 5,000 monthly active users.
• Hired and led a team of engineers to build an iOS app (Swift / Objective-C / Xcode), an Android app (Java / Android Studio) and the backend (PHP / MySQL).
• Shipped weekly on Android and fortnightly on iOS for a total of 20 Android versions and 10 iOS versions over a 3 month sprint.
• Shipped a further 12 iOS versions for a total of 22 iOS versions (Improved UX, Local Caching, Group Chat, Bug Fixes).
• Built an admin dashboard to monitor the app, review reported content and set push notification schedules (React / Flow / Redux / PHP / MySQL).

Aug 2012 – Aug 2012 · 0 mo · London Area, United Kingdom

• - Created a web application, “Index Viewer”, that lets users select and compare multiple indices, such as the FTSE 100, using plotted graphs (C# .NET / HTML / CSS / jQuery / Flot JS).