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Experience
Over 20 years across fintech, property, product and regulated software.
- 2025 – nowSenior Software EngineerKetryx
AI-native compliance tooling for regulated medical-device software: FDA, IEC 62304, ISO 13485.
- 2022 – 2025Director of ProductCOHO
Three years leading product for a PropTech SaaS platform.
- 2021 – 2022CTOBuilt Asset Management
Joined as CTO after Built Asset Management acquired Kingdom Houses.
- 2010 – 2021Founder and DirectorKingdom Houses
Founded and ran a property company for eleven years, grew it to over ten employees, then sold it.
- 2019 – 2021MBAUniversity of West London
Part-time, alongside running Kingdom Houses.
- 2015 – 2017Developer (contract)ForexSpace
Fintech: foreign exchange.
- 2013 – 2015Developer (contract)Interactive Data
Financial data services, now part of ICE.
- 2011 – 2013Developer (contract)Currencycloud
International payments, in Ruby.
- 2009 – 2012DeveloperCMC Markets
Spread betting and CFD trading platform.
- 2006 – 2009DeveloperDigital Look
Financial news and data. My first job, at 17.
man dawidWhat I do
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- Engineering
- TypeScript and Node.js today; PHP, C#, Ruby and Java before that. API and schema design, with strong opinions on data integrity.
- Databases
- SQL Server, MySQL and MariaDB, PostgreSQL.
- Product
- Three years as Director of Product, from customer research to shipped software.
- Business
- Founded, grew and sold a company. MBA from the University of West London.
- Domains
- Fintech, property and PropTech, regulated medical-device software.
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