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Maker of products, teams, and ideas. I bring over a decade of experience shaping software and fintech products, from founding startups to directing product at scale. I build with equal care for strategy, usability, and nurturing talent and creativity.

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November 2021 - Ongoing

Codat helps banks and fintechs build insights and automations with accounting, banking, and commerce data. Leading the service and platform teams, I have:

• Defined and delivered product vision + strategy supporting clients for spend analysis and underwriting use-cases (inc. J.P. Morgan and other major banks).
• Created best-in-class products including Codat's Link (↑2x conversion, driving data sharing for 100,000 SMBs), developer portal (↑40% MAUs), and award-winning docs (↑30% faster go-lives).
• Replatformed Codat, improving efficiency, supporting enterprise-grade client needs, and improving delivery pace (e.g. deploying new webhooks ↑5x faster).
• Built cross-functional teams and nurtured high-performing PMs, engineers, designers, and technical writers. Celebrated as a top PM and manager, promoted swiftly.
• Pioneered product excellence at Codat, including data-driven methods (supported by Amplitude).
• Led innovative projects inc. Codat's nascent AI & LLM work, new commercial models, and more.

March 2021 - November 2021

Swoop is the virtual CFO helping businesses secure funding and increase efficiency. Built products that solve longstanding SMB challenges:

• Rolled out SMB self-served access to underwriting of up to £1m, improving cost to serve and reducing time-to-funds to within 24 hours (↓3 days avg. vs. ~14 days avg. previously) via loan aggregation service.
• Built credit scoring and reporting product backed by CRIF, increasing user retention (↑10%), data-sharing (↑15%), and reducing low-quality loan applications.
• Wearing a delivery and manager hat, took a team which had never released in a year to shipping several major projects in quick succession.

April 2016 - August 2018

Co-founded Codogo, delivering client products through our agency business, whilst developing in-house collaborative document tool Codogo Write. I personally:

• Owned project lifecycles from ideation to delivery of complex web and native apps for 30+ clients ranging from the NHS to Arsenal FC.
• Pitched, winning awards, clients, and investors, even being flown out to try for Y Combinator with our in-house product.

• Software Engineer (FE) - Pollen, Workshare, 2018 - 2021
• Engineering Intern - Akkroo, 2015
• UX Designer - Better Brief, 2012
• Project Manager - Godfreys.co, 2011

2012 - 2016
British Computing Society accredited. Awarded Rising Star of Research.
Dissertation: The use of evolutionary AI in the balancing of competitive multiplayer games

2011 - 2012

2010 - 2011

2003 - 2010
A levels: Physics, Economics, Music

• UK Technical Communication award, ISTC, 2024
• Duke of York Young Entrepreneur Award, 2017
• Rising Stars of Research Symposium Member, Durham University, 2016
• Blueprint Enterprise Challenge, Durham University, 2016
• Genesis Pitching Competition, 2016
• Enterprise Kickstart Winner, Durham University Enterprise Society, 2015
• Best Website Award, Meat Management Magazine, 2012

I've always got a personal development project on the go; currently, I'm building a fantasy football team-building AI and the tool that made this CV. I regularly attend (and occasionally speak at) developer, product, and tech writer meet-ups (BCS, React London, GitHub Universe, Next Conf, WTD London).

I love board games, quizzes, cryptic crosswords, and cats. I enjoy running and rock climbing. I sing and am a multi-instrumentalist.

You can read my thoughts at my blog.