International voucher marketplace
Paid search & engineering · Managed campaigns and built automation
React tooling that saved 240 hours a month and cut team overhead by 40%.
Performance Marketing Awards in 2016 and 2017 for NOW TV and Topman campaigns.
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Discuss a similar projectIn November 2024, Dinners With Friends was a revived idea and a napkin sketch. By the start of September 2026, it had welcomed more than 500 guests across 50 dinners. Dates were routinely selling out six to eight weeks ahead, and nearly all of the remaining 2026 calendar was booked.
Pamela Silkstone first ran the concept twenty years earlier: put people who have never met around one table, give them a host, and make the first conversation easier. I took the relaunch from idea to first version, first paying customers and a business with more demand than seats. Along the way I built the brand, website, booking system, internal tools, mobile app and the search programme that now brings new people in.
The search programme delivered 5,530 Google clicks in June–August 2026, up 66.1% on the previous three months, alongside 381,345 search impressions. Building and maintaining a library of local guides gave the business a way to be discovered by people looking for food, activities and places to meet across Exeter and Devon.
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Hosted dinners that help people make friends
CTO · Built the brand, booking platform, apps and search programme
Read the full case studyDinners With Friends brings people together to make friends over hosted meals at local venues across South West England. As CTO for the relaunch, the role covered the website, mobile apps, bookings, payments and host tools, alongside the brand, customer acquisition and analytics needed to run the business.
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Freelance opportunity discovery for Contra
Product engineering · Built the extension and discovery pipeline
View Indy.ai projectIndy.ai is a Chrome extension built for 
Contra that helps freelancers discover work by finding opportunities in their LinkedIn and X feeds. The engineering engagement through 
WithSeismic covered the extension and discovery pipeline, connecting browser-based collection with AI analysis to turn social posts into structured job opportunities for Contra's marketplace.
Contra's Chrome extension and its browser-based opportunity discovery pipeline.
Verified on Contra•Doug was incredible to work with. He operated quickly & efficiently, and even proposed ways to improve the feature to exceed our expectations. 10/10!
Ecommerce benchmarking for 200 UK brands
Product engineering · Built the interactive MVP in four weeks
View Growth Society projectGrowth Society's ecommerce benchmarking project turned a static industry report into an interactive way to explore and compare brands. The engagement covered building the MVP, bringing performance data, brand profiles and analyst commentary together in a web product.
Promptheus — used in an MIT course
Product Hunt — #1 Product of the Week
