David Mann

Sourcr - Contractor / Interim CTO 10/2018 - Present

I built a marketplace for Sourcr as a contractor and as they were struggling to hire a local engineer I came onboard as the interim CTO as a favour while they found a full time employee.

Major Job Roles

• Design and implement the marketplace that helped raise over half a million dollars after extensive interviews with the founders to understand requirements
• Help guide the founders in the right path on all technical matters
• Interview potential employees to ensure continued success upon my departure
• Manage a small team of fulltime offshore employees who are based in eastern europe

RetroAnalytics - Founder 8/2017 - 12/2018

I designed and implemented a smart analytics platform that removed the need for manually adding tracking code and used machine learning to spot trends and usage patterns in your analytic data. We raised a chunk of cash from institutional investors and launched to wild success, hitting #4 on product hunt and beinf featured in various places, we gained over 300 customers in 24 hours, including the top 60 ecommerce site in the world and a silicon valley travel company heavy weight. We ingested millions of events per day on behalf of our clients during the peak and generated a great revenue but we were unable to find a sustainable busines model that resulted in a profitable business and were forced to close our doors.

Major Job Roles

• Design and implemented the core data ingemstment pipeline, storage/query engine (pgSQL, Cassandra, JanusGraph) and the Web UI / backend api
• Design machine learning algorithim capable of modeling usage patterns on essentially unstructed data
• Speak with customers and work on closing deals
• Everyhing else involved in running business (accounting, hiring, investor updates, sales, etc)

Finder - Lead Engineer 9/2016 - 8/2017

I worked as the lead engineer for the expansion of the successfull FinderAU Brand into the US market. I worked with the CEO and upper management on daily basis to implement a range of split tests, implement new functionality and helped lead the push to design an abstraction layer ontop of the legacy Wordpress API to increase development velocity. I also worked closely wih the US publishing team to design and implement new funtionality that would drive engagement amongst the US market.

Major Job Roles

• Worked closely with the CEO to design and implement a range of split tests to drive engagement
• Designed and implemented the initial version of the abstraction API that would sit ontop of wordpress to enable developers to more sanely reason about their code
• Implemented a modular scraping system ontop of AWS before moving to Scrapinghub

Throwr - Lead Engineer 12/2014 - Present

I worked closely with the CEO to manage and implement various projects for rural clients and our own internal apps.

• Integrated Homekit (LIFX & hue lights, security shutters, air con) into CEOs house via custom Raspberry Pi bridge
• iPad based Factory Management software that integrated with their CRM
• Real time chat/Pokedex app for Pokemon Go (FindEmAll)
• Cancer based Social Network (Cancerosity)
• Yard fuel tracking system

Major Job Roles

• Working with junior team to help mentor and teach good defensive coding practices
• Work with CEO to brainstorm new ideas
• Office & House automation
• All AWS management
• In-office server management
• General counsel
• Speaking with clients regarding any technical issues

Minor Job Roles

• Reporting on personal progress of team members
• Researching new technologies & projects
• Office dog owner

Datazoos - Lead Engineer 2/2015 - Present

As the only engineer on this project, I Designed and implemented a large platform that integrates with NZ Government, Chinese Government and Australian Government to provide a range of personal data validation to companies including Veda, GB Group, Trulioo, Rabo Bank, HIFX and more. We currently validate over a thousand ID forms a day including Passport, ID Card, Bank Card, Citizenship, Birth Certificate, Drivers License, AML Watch lists, Terror Watch lists and more.

Major Job Roles

• Design architecture for system
• Implement range of data sources
• Manage all AWS infrastructure using advanced nested CloudFormation stacks
• Speak with clients to guide through integration process as required
• Work with data providers to integrate new data sources as contracts are negotiated.

Minor Job Roles

• General server maintenance
• Set up IPSec VPNs for direct data exchanges
• Reporting to stakeholders the progress of various data integrations and client integrations

The Iconic - Growth Hacker2/2014 - 5/2014

I worked with 3 other people on a small "swat team" that was tasked running experiments on UX and features. By utilising Optimizeley and pub testing our UI, we were able to increase conversion by 15%.

Major Job Roles

• Brainstorming ideas around increasing conversion
• Research around conversion tactics
• Implementing ideas that our group had come up with
• Develop new ideas to pitch to the business

Minor Job Roles

• Generating detailed reports on success metrics
• Pub testing/cafe new ideas in exchange for a free beer/coffee to get honest feedback

The Iconic - Senior Engineer10/2013 - 2/2014

My main projects at The Iconic included rebuilding the image architecture to introduce Thumbor, a FOSS dynamic image resizing server that allows for advanced image manipulation. This included shims for out of date mobile apps and integrating Thumbor with Rackspace Storage.

Major Job Roles

• Develop core platform
• Set up infrastructure for new components
• Meet with infrastructure providers (Rackspace, AWS) to implement new technologies

Minor Job Roles

• Front end Work
• Progressively improve search engine matching/ranking algorithms by using existing search queries

Shoptiques - Senior Engineer12/12 - 8/2013

I helped developed the core platform for the Y Combinator backed, Shoptiques, over the course of a 9 month contract, 3 of which were spent in the New York office.

Major Job Roles

• Architecture and development of custom e-commerce platform
• Work with boutiques to increase stock turnover
• Research, meet and negotiate with service providers that enabled us to move fast without developing non-core platform features

Minor Job Roles

• Most front end work
• ElasticSearch management
• Implementing A-B tests
• Office comedian

News Digital Media - Senior Engineer07/2011 - 12/2012

I manage a range of websites including sites which attract a large amount of traffic, I deal with lots of caching technologies to ensure that sites can handle millions of hits a month. I have lots of exposure to ESI, Memcached and legacy code. I have also recently been given the role of lead developer for an internal informative dashboard project which we aim to make open source.

Major Job Roles

• Develop new components for existing large scale community websites
• Integrate Akamai into existing websites
• Meet with key stake holders and plan agile sprints

Minor Job Roles

• Coordinate releases to a range of servers
• Review and update existing code to meet security standards

HTSG - Senior Engineer09/2010 - 07/2011

I am a senior developer for our flagship education product, catering for over 500 clients. This system allows a school to manage all their students, marks, teachers and teaching plans.

Major Job Roles

• Develop core architecture
• Manage and train the junior developers
• Manage our Git repository, this including setting up Gitorious, managing sub repositories as well as user / permission management

Minor Job Roles

• Train staff members on how to use Symfony
• Write code documentation (I wrote all the internal code documentation)
• Conduct code reviews
• Develop and enforce coding standards (This was done with PHPCS)

Solution 4 - Mid Senior Engineer06/2010 - 09/2010

I was a Mid Senior Website Developer working on multiple components for the Senro Application which will be the backbone of Aussie Home Loans mortgage broking business.

Major Job Roles

• Develop application components to meet the expectations of Aussie Home Loans
• Brainstorm new components and how they will be turned from a spec to a fully working component

Minor Job Roles

• Participate in meetings with Aussie Home Loans and interpret their needs and develop components to meet requirements

Adams Marketing - Web Developer / Junior Designer 09/2009 - 06/2010

I am the Junior Designer and the Lead Web Developer for Adams Marketing.

Major Job Roles

• Design websites from scratch to meet client brief
• Develop websites to match client brief
• Design print campaigns to meet client brief.

Minor Job Roles

• General office tasks
• Office Technical Support.

Hot Graphics - Web Development Manager 02/2009 - 09/2009

While working at Hot Graphics, I was the the Web Development Manager and was in charge of all client communication that related to the clients website.

Major Job Roles

• Quote clients based on requested website features
• Liaise with clients while their website is in the design / development stage
• Develop client websites
• Manage job queue.

Minor Job Roles

• Office Technical Support.
• Answer phone base client queries
• General Office Duties.

Joyer Consulting - Web Developer 03/2008 - 02/2009

While working at Joyer, I was employed as a Trainee Website Developer and completed my Certificate IV in Information Technology - (Websites) (Design) With Distinction

Major Job Roles

• Develop client websites.

Minor Job Roles

• Answer phone calls
• General Office Duties.

North Coast Institute Of TAFE 2008 - 2009

Certificate IV in Information Technology - (Websites) (Design) With Distinction

• Completed With Distinction
• Completed course after 4 months of work.

Australian Technical College (Newman College)2008 - 2008

Completed Year 11.

Camden Haven High School2007 - 2007

I completed my School Certificate via Distance Education while working as a freelance developer on the internet.