Dominic Freeston

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I’m a software developer with 10 years of experience building consumer facing products in cross-functional teams. I’m mission driven and care deeply about creating open and communicative team dynamics. I enjoy collaborating with design and product to create beautiful, functional and polished experiences.

Roles

2021-Current Senior Software Developer; LoveShark; London, UK

• Primary iOS developer of flagship product: Mochi - a pioneering computer vision-based camera game app with social networking features
• Regular contributor to backend, creating API endpoints and database models to support new features as well as general maintenance and bug fixes
• Led end-to-end development of key features: search, comments and user progression; from API design to custom animations
• Developed automated tooling to facilitate our weekly release process, saving hours of developer time per week
• Championed best practices, mentored junior engineers and contributed extensively to internal documentation to ensure the tech team was well informed and cohesive

2017-2021 Senior Software Engineer; Memrise; London, UK

• Tech lead of various cross-functional teams, working on a range of projects from revamping the underlying data modelling and app architecture to building new experimental features
• Successfully grew the iOS team from 3 to 8 members over the course of a year
• Provided support and coaching to other team members

2015-2017 iOS Developer; Novoda; London, UK

• Established and grew Novoda's iOS development department
• Technical team lead on green field projects for a variety of clients
• Mentoring of junior developers both internally and for our clients

2014-2015 iOS Developer; Many Things; London, UK

• Lead developer on the giffgaff app
• Internal R&D and product development

2012-2014 iOS Developer; Kaldor Group (now Pugpig); London, UK

• Product development on Pugpig, an award-winning cross-platform digital publishing platform
• Custom work for clients including Grazia, The Spectator and The Week

2010-2011 Teaching Assistant; Queen Mary University of London; London, UK

• Java programming course: tuition, support, marking and feedback

Personal Projects

The Wallslider

iOS and Android retro-inspired game built in Godot with a leaderboard powered by a Clojure backend and Postgres database.

Plottables

Downloadable unique generative art pieces suitable for a pen plotter, created in Clojure with a sprinkle of htmx and hyperscript on the frontend for some progressive enhancement.

Thirty-Five

Thirty-Five days of Clojure generative art

Education

2009-2011 Queen Mary University of London, UK

• MSc Media and Arts Technology by Research (with Distinction)

2005-2009 University of York, UK

• MEng (Hons) Electronic Engineering with Music Technology Systems (First Class with Distinction)