University of Cambridge

Skills: Firebase · Google Cloud Platform (GCP) · Node.js · JavaScript · Architecture · Agile Methodologies · React.js · TypeScript · Amazon Web Services (AWS) · React Native

Mindset Health

Chief Technology Officer

Consultancy, project management, development, Agile coaching for clients including FutureGov, Nous, The Voxel Agents & Eastwood

Self Employed

Freelance Technology Consultant

CTO and co-founder of Pearlii, a startup with the goal of using AI/Machine Learning powered image processing to provide home detection of oral health issues.

Pearlii

Chief Technology Officer & Founder

Chief Technology Officer with responsibility for development of Liminal's platform for mood enhancing VR experiences, as well as VR and AR projects with various agency clients.

Liminal VR

Technical Director for King's Monarch Studio. Oversaw development of three mobile game projects and a suite of real time multiplayer technology libraries. Responsible for 25 developers in a studio of 75 people, including career development, training, coaching and recruitment. Directed the studio's technology strategy, integrating studio technology with a wide range of King systems. Built team and oversaw architecture and delivery of King's first game built in Unity.

Technologies involved included C++, Unity / C#, Java, MySQL, TCP/IP, Jetty, OpenGL, AS3 / Flash.

King

Studio Technical Director

Consultant, then Technical Lead for Friend or Fraud, a mobile social web app for high street retailer Argos. Consulted on initial game design and technical architecture. Recruited development team and lead planning and development during pre-production. The app launched successfully as part of Argos' 2015 Christmas UK marketing push and was used by over 300,000 in its first months.

Nerv

Consultant / Technical Lead (Freelance)

Worked with startup mobile agency Pleo to build an MVP for an innovative iOS/Android business simulation game and social learning platform for Founders Forum, a group of high profile VC investors including Frank Meehan and Brent Hoberman. The prototype was successfully delivered to positive feedback, resulting in the creation of a new startup and later release as SmartUp.

Pleo

Technical Director (Freelance)

An independent agency with a great game design background, transitioning to create their own in-house capacity to deliver innovative games on iOS, web and other platforms. As one of four directors I was involved in all aspects of the company including seeking investment, transitioning to an own IP led strategy, identifying technical trends and opportunities and the day to day running of the team.

• Recruited programmers and artists and retrained producers in digital production to form new development teams
• Introduced best practice production and development approaches including Agile/Scrum, Continuous Integration and Test Driven Development where appropriate
• Supervised and coordinated work in languages including C++, Objective- C, Java (back-end), PHP, Ruby, ActionScript and JavaScript
• Personally implemented a new scalable RESTful server architecture built on AWS
• Analytics gathering using bespoke systems, Flurry and Google Analytics. Introduced COPPA compliance for child focused games.
• Pitched and worked with major brands, media and technology companies including James Bond / Skyfall (Sony), Sesame Street and World War Z (Paramount / Yahoo)

Hide&Seek

Technical Director

Founded and led NaturalMotion London, a new studio developing free to play social iOS games. Starting from scratch I was responsible for recruiting a new team, pitching and development of a new game IP, locating new premises and the day to day running of the studio. Appointed and worked with third party art studio and in-house contractors.
As part of NaturalMotion as a whole I was also involved in architecting the company’s back-end systems, advising on scalability and integration with social APIs. Contributed to direction of social features and integration with Facebook platform.

NaturalMotion

Head of Studio

Product and technical consultancy for the BBC World Service Trust's Shankaboot project, an innovative combination of episodic drama, social media and gaming. The project was awarded the 2011 International Digital Emmy Award for Best Digital Fiction

BBC World Service Trust

Social Media Consultant

Social gaming startup, joined at startup as one of three original developers. The company has since grown to four hundred people and was acquired in late 2009 by Electronic Arts for $400 million.
As Common Technology Lead I was responsible for the shared technology built into all of Playfish’s games. Covering back-end (Java) and front-end (Flash, JavaScript), this technology sits at the core of fifteen live titles, supporting innovative social features and a massively scalable architecture. A core team of six senior engineers identified new features, carried out research and development and facilitated an open source development movement involving around eighty developers across seven locations worldwide.

• Formerly led Multi-Platform Technology team, bringing social gaming to novel platforms, including iPhone, Android and Adobe AIR-based desktop releases.
• Worked closely with leading third party social networking partners, including Facebook, Google and MySpace. Involved in technical design and implementation of third-party APIs including Facebook Connect for iPhone, Facebook Connect for Android (supervised first implementation of the library on this platform) and Google's Android API.

Softography:
• Pet Society - Lead Developer and Designer. Played by over 100 million
people, generating tens of millions of dollars in revenue. #1 application on
Facebook for much of 2009.
• Who Has The Biggest Brain iPhone - Chosen as launch partner for
Facebook Connect iPhone, reaching #2 in the UK App Store.
• Sim City Social – Designed and developed several key social features,
notably player to player messaging, Facebook authentication and heuristic ranking of friends to identify candidates for invitation.

Playfish (EA Games)

Common Technology Lead

Developing cutting-edge games and technology for the pre-smartphone high-end mobile market.
• Lead Developer on several groundbreaking 3D mobile titles.
• Worked with global licenses including Need For Speed, The Sims (EA),
Final Fantasy (Square Enix)
• Research and development of core technology modules included in
Ideaworks' market-leading Marmalade SDK licensed to third-parties
worldwide.
• Planning, scheduling and management of projects involving teams of up
to twenty developers.
• Lead development of innovative toolset for automated language
translation and porting from Java to C++ based native mobile platforms.

Ideaworks3D (now Marmalade)

Lead Game Engineer

Research in the fields of Computer Graphics, Mixed Reality, Augmented Reality and Computer Vision. Author and co-author on various published papers.

Developed museum exhibits to showcase realtime 3D image based capture and rendering as well as Mixed Reality technology.

Dan Borthwick