Co-Founder & CTO, Fable Homes — 2021-2024 Co-founded rent-to-own real estate operator, backed by Fuel Ventures. Designed, built & project-managed, on Elixir with Phoenix, deploying to AWS: Combined tenant & property underwriting engine, with mix of public & private data On-demand property portal scraper (esp. Rightmove, Zoopla) Reactive consumer web app for application and property submission (Phoenix) Substantial data analytics (Apache Superset, Count.co) Company strategy and commercial negotiation with data suppliers, esp. credit bureaus & identity
Co-Founder & CTO, Tab — 2015-2020 Co-founded payments & bookings platform for travel businesses in emerging markets (primarily LatAm); backed by Y Combinator. Transacted 100+MM USD with merchants in > 30 countries. Designed, built & project-managed, on AWS & Heroku: multi-currency payment/accounting system (Python, Postgres+SQLAlchemy, Spreedly), with gateway cost optimiser and rule-based fraud/misbehaviour detection sophisticated product pricing engine, supporting variable seasons, consumer categories and external iCalendar inputs (Pandas) client web applications (Flask, ReactJS) & APIs (Falcon) iOS and Android apps (Swift & Java, experimental React Native) Hired and managed team of five developers in London and remotely Sold to initial customers in-person in Guatemala .
Founding CTO, Revector — 2008-2011 First employee of relaunched single founder startup; role straddled dev and strategy. Architected and delivered automatic telephone call generation platform, allowing telco clients (inc. Vodafone, O2/Telefonica, Telenor, MTN) to send millions of test calls to their networks for fraud detection and revenue assurance Opened and headed London office. Hired and managed team of three software developers (plus interns and line management of ops). Developed web-based BI add-on for interactive reporting, using QlikView for rapid GTM. Undertook sales engineer role in early stage, liaising with client telco reps, GSMA members, and third-party companies for R&D and product white- labelling. Wrote initial marketing materials and co-ran trade show presences. Revenue increased from £~20k to >£1 million within two years (profitable, without external investment) Technologies: Python, Java, PHP, MySQL, ASP.NET; telecoms-related: SIP, RTP, GSM.