Geraint Guan 🧑💻
Mission driven 0 → 1 product builder with 8+ years experience building and scaling products in startup, scaleup, and agency environments across front-end, back-end, and infrastructure.
I'm always happy to chat about building products, technology, and startups! Drop me a line on any of the platforms below if you'd like to connect.
Tech Stack
Technologies that I ❤️ to build with.
Experience
Professional roles that I've held. 🧑💼
I joined in the middle of discovery for a new client project and after successful completion I am now leading a team of 3 engineers in the implementation phase.
- Successfully completed discovery phase for a new HealthTech client project with complex operating requirements.
- Created a technical architecture plan in a high complexity and security environment that was well received and approved by the client.
- Leading an implementation team of 3 engineers with a mixture of technical stakeholder management with the client, supporting the team technically, and some hands-on individual contributions.
I started to take on more leadership responsibilities by heading up a department focused on maintaining and improving Appointedd's infrastructure, internal tooling, and customer issue triage processes. I continued to support the wider engineering team with building key product features.
- Worked with leadership to spearhead building a developer operations department and reorganise team structure.
- Designed a well received high-level modern architecture plan with clear next steps to work towards to.
- Advised leadership on technical strategy, issues, and culture.
I started to take on more leadership responsibilities along with my individual contribution work, balancing the two responsibilities. I led a product development team of 2 - 3 engineers, scoping and delivering key product features and improvements from conception to release.
- Led, mentored, and line managed a team of 2 - 3 product engineers to successfully deliver numerous key product features and improvements.
- Successfully worked end-to-end solo to deliver a key client requested mobile app integration.
- Supported client success team with problem solving and fixing critical client issues.
I continued to develop my technical and product skills as I progressed in seniority. Continued to do solo feature development, supporting other team members in the engineering team, and started to contribute to infrastructure maintenance and development.
- Migrated core bookings engine to serverless reducing infrastructure costs by 20% and improving stability.
- Spearheaded introduction of new technologies and processes improving developer productivity and application performance.
- Supported commercial and client success teams on calls to help close and retain key clients.
My first professional role after graduating. I primarily did solo feature development and bug fixing, as well as customer support rotations.
- Built the first version of our public-facing RESTful API.
- Completely rebuilt our core availability engine and launched it with no outages.
- Created technical challenge that we used to hire further engineers to the team.
Education
Where I've studied. 🧑🏫
- Artificial Intelligence
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Formal Verification
- Discrete Mathematics
Extracurricular
Other things I do. 🤹
I regularly volunteer as a coach at the Edinburgh chapter. Codebar is a charity that facilitates the growth of a diverse tech community by running free programming workshops for minority groups in tech.