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Doug Silkstone

Patrianna

Games for a social-casino platform

Studio leadership · Hired the team and shipped five games to 1M players

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  • Built an in-house game studio from zero and shipped five high-stakes React games to 1M players.
  • Hired and led the cross-functional frontend, game-development and QA team.
  • Owned monetisation, retention, experiments and telemetry.
  • Owned product architecture, delivery, team structure and production quality for a top-three social casino.
#typescript#react#nextjs#redux#postgres#datadog#growth#leadership
Doug Silkstone

getBenson

Coupon-extension protection for ecommerce

Founder & technical lead · Built, operated and sold the platform

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getBenson helped online retailers detect coupon extensions at checkout, prevent unwanted discount-code use and measure the effect on revenue and attribution. As founder and technical lead, the role covered rebuilding the MVP for production, running the platform, technical sales and customer onboarding through to the sale of the business.

  • Built a SaaS platform that detected and blocked browser-extension coupon leakage across 25M monthly sessions and 500+ stores.
  • Rebuilt the MVP as a typed, tested production system with real-time GraphQL revenue analytics.
  • Led technical sales and onboarded 80+ ecommerce brands.
  • Operated the product for nearly three years, then sold it.
#typescript#react#nextjs#nodejs#graphql#postgres#datadog#attribution