leadership

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Doug SilkstonePinned

Building products and businesses

I work across strategy, design, engineering, marketing, sales and operations. Over more than a decade, that has included work for Groupon, Vouchercloud, AWIN and The Motley Fool, product engineering for Framer, Contra and STRV, and founding and selling three software businesses of my own.

I’m good at taking a complicated business problem, making the work clear and seeing it through. That can mean deciding what to build, designing the experience, writing the software, finding customers or improving how the business runs. I work with colleagues across those disciplines and take responsibility for the work myself.

In my own businesses, product decisions, customer acquisition, sales, revenue and day-to-day operations have all been my responsibility. I bring that same connected view to client work, from shaping the offer to building the product and measuring whether it works for the business.

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Doug Silkstone

RaceMake

Live telemetry and analysis for sim racers

Interim technical lead · Led architecture, team and delivery

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RaceMake helps sim racers understand their driving through live car and lap data, AI-assisted analysis and interactive 3D visualisations. The interim technical leadership role covered architecture, team leadership and delivery across the desktop app, web app and the data pipelines connecting them.

  • Led architecture and delivery across a Rust/Tauri desktop app and React web app.
  • Rebuilt both clients around extensible high-frequency telemetry pipelines and per-game adapters.
  • Built an AI pit team and interactive 3D visualisations on top of live telemetry.
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#rust#tauri#typescript#react#nextjs#telemetry#llms#leadership
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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
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Reach Robotics

MekaMon AR battle robot

Digital Marketing Manager · Led acquisition, ecommerce and measurement

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  • Led marketing and digital operations for MekaMon, an AR battle robot launched globally in Apple Stores. As Digital Marketing Manager, owned go-to-market strategy and delivery across acquisition, content, ecommerce, customer success and measurement.
  • Managed a £100K paid-marketing budget, alongside social media and influencer campaigns.
  • Led and curated the YouTube influencer campaign, including partnerships with SuperSaf and KhanFlicks, with campaign videos accumulating 750K+ views.
  • Hired and managed the marketing, video-production and customer-support teams, with responsibility for customer success.

Reach Robotics hiring presentation (PDF)MekaMon digital strategy, 2017–18 (PDF)
#gtm#growth#lifecycle#attribution#ecommerce#leadership