Iain Merrick

Personal highlights

• Launched games on the App Store, Google Play, Amazon, Steam
• Great reviews from 100K+ customers, with a tiny team on a shoestring budget

Web-based project (from Oct 2022, launch TBD)

• UI and server code for the whole project (TypeScript, three.js, Python)

Sorcery! 4 (launched Sep 2016)

• Added adaptive camera system
• Simultaneous release on all platforms and stores
• Built new backend server, managed seamless migration

Sorcery! 3 (launched Apr 2015)

• Extended UIKit emulation layer to PC and Mac
• Simultaneous release on all platforms and stores

80 Days (launched Dec 2014)

• Android port using Sorcery! framework

Sorcery! 2 (launched Jun 2014)

• Android port, reusing existing iOS code
• Collected and edited ambient audio

Steve Jackson’s Sorcery! (launched Mar 2014)

• Android port, reusing existing iOS code
• Built environmental sound system
• Rewrote 3D game map, ported back to iOS

Personal highlights

• Spurred by COVID, made the jump from fantasy football to a health tech startup.
• Learned about major health problems affecting the world (notably Alzheimer's) We weren't able to solve them, but we tried!

Lead mobile developer

• New home screens and API upgrades
• Dynamic data system for feature flags and out-of-band UI updates
• App integration with NHS login (OAuth)
• Contributed to product discovery and user research

Personal highlights

• Made iOS developers happy with a 10x build speed improvement.

Software Engineering Manager (Jun 2020 – Feb 2021)

• Line manager for 4 software engineers
• Frontend A/B tests and cross-product promotions
• Embeddable notifications inbox for Sportsbook app

Senior Software Engineer (Jul 2018 – May 2020)

• Built “Discover” and “Referral Center” screens in Android DFS app
• Drove performance and stability improvements on Android
• Helped integrate GeoComply into Sportsbook app (React Native)

Personal highlights

• Promoted to Senior Software Engineer.
• Learned Google-style big data techniques, TV delivery systems, Android internals.
• Helped work around launch-blocking flaws in the first-gen Nexus 7.

Ads Effectiveness Research (Jan 2012 – Jul 2013)

• Designed secure data warehouse for opt-in ads experiments
• Built statistical model for reweighting population samples

Android (Aug 2010 – Jan 2012)

• Chrome for Android: speed and stability improvements, GPU acceleration
• Android web browser: helped replace legacy HTTP stack with the Chromium stack

AdSense for TV (Oct 2006 – Aug 2010)

• Designed and built code and workflow for managing all TV metadata
• Contributed to TV ad impressions forecasting and measurement
• Built our first project dashboard

Personal highlights

• Learned software defined radio and DSP techniques.
• Worked on the full embedded stack: hardware, firmware, software.
• Mentored a team member writing a 128-byte boot loader.

Team Leader (Feb 2006 – Oct 2006)

• Led a team of 10 engineers working on multi-standard digital radios
• Led feasibility study for mobile TV, designed initial architecture
• Designed and built Electronic Programme Guide viewer

Principal Software Engineer (Oct 2004 – Feb 2006)

• Integrated multiple digital radio stacks on a single C5509 DSP

Senior Software Engineer (Jul 2002 – Oct 2004)

• Designed and built extensible radio manager to handle feature interactions
• Designed and built station database for high-end receivers
• Designed and built PausePlus feature for mass-market DAB receiver

Software Engineer (Jan 2001 – Jul 2002)

• Worked on runtime and simulator for Communications Virtual Machine