<aside> 👋 Hi, I’m Andy, Software Engineer 🧑💻 Turned Product Manager 🚀 → Nerd for NLP & Voice Interaction w/AI 🤖✨
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👋 Hello… (30 Seconds)
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Although now a Product Manager, I have never stopped Engineering. 👨💻
Most recently I built the full stack web app for my startup ‘LetsRent’, from web scraping back end to SvelteKit + TailwindCSS + Shad.cn frontend. 💪
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☎️ +44 (0) 7 377 046 545
💼 LinkedIn - Andy Tyler
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<aside> <img src="/icons/light-bulb_blue.svg" alt="/icons/light-bulb_blue.svg" width="40px" /> Product Management Skills
Discovery 🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵
Team Leadership 🔵🔵🔵🔵
Communication 🔵🔵🔵🔵
Data Analysis 🔵🔵🔵🔵
Design Thinking 🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵
Roadmapping 🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵
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<aside> <img src="/icons/code_purple.svg" alt="/icons/code_purple.svg" width="40px" /> Software Engineering Skills
Back End 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣
Front End 🟣🟣🟣🟣
Architecture 🟣🟣🟣
TypeScript/ Node.js 🟣🟣🟣🟣
API Development 🟣🟣🟣🟣
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<aside> <img src="/icons/layers_green.svg" alt="/icons/layers_green.svg" width="40px" /> Favourite Stack
Supabase, Railway, SvelteKit, TailwindCSS, TypeScript, Node.js, Cursor IDE, iTerm2
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<aside> <img src="/icons/graduate_yellow.svg" alt="/icons/graduate_yellow.svg" width="40px" /> Pieces of Paper
Dissertation in Natural Language Processing → Specifically the application of Voice Interaction Technologies, e.g. Alexa.
3 month course, gave me a great understanding for the theory for the life cycle of a digital product from pitch and vision to launch and end of life.
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<aside> <img src="/icons/heart_red.svg" alt="/icons/heart_red.svg" width="40px" /> Things I’m Proud Of…
Founding 'Game Jams' at the University attracting international attention and continuing years aer graduating. (Recently running the 7th)
Representing all Computer Science courses to various university committees.
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^ My Previous Companies
MAY 2023 → MAY 2024 (1 yr) → https://letsrent.io/ PropTech SaaS
Problem - Renting in the UK is a nightmare, stressful, time consuming, fragmented. We built a web app for Landlords & tenants to connect like AirBnB for long term renting. Landlord interviews and tenant surveys concluded that this was a painful, frequent, expensive problem & worthwhile to solve. We built a scraping engine on a CRON and frontend with SvelteKit, integrating with countless 3rd party APIs and services. Also operating all the admin components with running a business. TLDR; Data Scraping, Railway, SvelteKit, TailwindCSS, Shad.cn, Prisma, Open Banking APIs.
References: Richard Olver (Startup Advisor)
NOV 2023 → MARCH 2024 (3 mo contract +2 mo extension) → https://www.generatemomentum.ai/ B2B
Architecting & Implementing Web Scraping Infrastructure to scrape 10’s Millions of URLs a day. Building configurable web scrapers, to build find and enrich data points for product ops. This role was very much; set off on a problem and just solve it by any means necessary, exactly my style! Stack; Extensive use of the OpenAI API, Railway, Typescript, Supabase, PostgREST, PostgreSQL, Azure.
References: Marcus Henglein (Manager - CPO), Amrita Krishnakumar (Colleague - Product Ops)
FEB 2023 - MAY 2023 (3 mo contract) → https://www.cogadhd.com/ B2C Mobile App
Accountable for GTM, initiating & analysing user feedback, working with the founder to discover & define the core value proposition, organising execution cross discipline team, from iOS and Android Engineers to content from Healthcare Workers. Getting scrappy and working off existing designs to create UX designs to unblock Engineers. Utilised; Figma, App Store Connect, Google Play Store, Firebase.
References: Dom Longford (Manager - CEO/Founder)
NOV 2022 → MAY 2023 (contract) → https://www.polaroid.com/collections/instant-cameras B2C Mobile App
Relocated to Amsterdam, NL for this role. Lead discovery phase for Polaroid connected apps & analysis of monetisation opportunities across connected devices estate. Data Analysis and Business Analysis for strategic positioning. Day to day fire fighting to comply with app stores urgh and progress BAU. Taking any opportunity to promote the Engineering team to innovate and build awesomeness.
References: Tibor Beke (Colleague - Engineering Manager)
NOV 2021 - OCT 2022 (1 yr) → https://github.com/storageos https://github.com/ondat DevTools
Scalable Kubernetes data plane. Accountable for Hiring Golang Engineers to my teams, prioritising projects of work, balancing sales requests with innovation and bug reports. Taking initiative to seek mandate on improving unowned areas which needed improving to directly help users, such as, the docs site. Stack; CockroachDB, AWS EKS, GCP Kubernetes, Linear, GitHub, iTerm2, Open Source.
References: James Brown (Manager - CPO), Cannis Chan (Colleague - Senior Product Manager)
DEC 2019 - NOV 2021 (1 yrs) → https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/bbc-iplayer/id416580485 **https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=bbc.iplayer.android&hl=en_GB&pli=1 Consumer Apps
Accountability for video experience on all small screen devices. Completed projects including Digital Rights Management re-architecture, boosting download speed 4x, success rate +10%, and reimagining playback UI. Communicated clear updates to directors and maintained detailed information for engineers.
References: Mike Charles (Executive Product Manager - Manager), Nicola Downie (Senior Product Manager - Colleague)
DEC 2019 - NOV 2021 (1 yr) → https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds Internal Tools
Prioritising work for 3 engineering teams, evangelising for strong internal stakeholder relationships for buy-in cross all TV teams in iPlayer and Sounds, especially for them to prioritise Partner Device fixes. Maintaining external relationships with TV manufacturers & improved partner issue resolution speed by 33%, responsible for prioritising work to retain reach to 300,000 users on low-end devices. Orchestrating the discovery phase; from “How Might We’s”, through to cross-discipline design sprints & workshops.
References: Marnix V’ant Riet (Senior Software Engineer - Colleague), Yameen Rasul (Engineering Team Lead - Colleague), Andrew White (Product Manager - Colleague), David Buckhurst (Head of Engineering - Colleague)
JUL 2018 - DEC 2019 (1 yr) → https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world API Internal Tools
Writing EMCA Script 5 compliant TV testing platform for internal teams to validate bespoke TV manufacturers browsers, essential for running the BBC’s TV apps. Advocating & learning best practices when forming high performant teams from scratch. AWS Cloud Formation, AWS SAM, DynamoDB, S3, Code Pipeline for CI/CD to build multiple full stack web apps.
References: John Beech (Engineering Team Lead - Manager), Caroline Chisnal (Software Engineer - Colleague)
Me, Saving the turtles! 🐢
Me, on a remote island in off the coast of Malaysia, in the South China Sea. 🏝️
Punting in Oxford! 🚣♂️
Scuba Diving! BEST thing I’ve ever done, ever! 🤿
Me centre stage at a co-founder matching event I organised at futurehouse.uk 🔥
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