Sam
Deere

• Building trading software for one of the UK’s largest crypto-focused hedge funds, enabling trading team to reliably execute on trading strategies across multiple exchanges
• Develop specifications with trading team to deliver continuous improvements with rapid feedback and turnaround
• Part of a team managing a large, distributed, evented system ingesting millions of records per day
• Optimised database queries on large (MM row) tables for up to 400x performance improvements
• Significant focus on performance + UX, DevOps and DBA

• Built business process automation that have allowed a project with the grantmaking capacity of a mid-sized foundation growing at ~100% year-on-year to operate with a permanent staff of 2 FTE
• Built payment integrations using major payment processors as well as fully-custom cryptocurrency processing implementation
• Managed product across whole lifecycle (market research, feature planning, shipping, user testing + QA), including CI/CD pipelines, DevOps etc
• Built sophisticated internal tooling, reporting infrastructure, and business process automations (e.g. grant management system, reporting dashboards)
• Provided high-touch service to UHNW donors + responsive customer support to all donors

• Built and maintained tech infrastructure supporting six+ internal teams, including donation processing, pledge tracking, event management, hiring and HR, content management etc.
• Part of co-founder team that took CEA to Y Combinator, the world’s leading startup accelerator
• Hired and managed team of developers + product manager

• Built accounting automations that reduced donor reconciliation time by 90%
• Rebuilt and maintained Giving What We Can website and membership tracking system

• Sought media opportunities to showcase and grow Giving What We Can membership
• Ensured positive outcomes from complex and potentially hostile media enquiries

• Created custom-designed websites for small and medium-sized businesses
• Used repeatable business processes to deliver fully-functional content-managed websites to clients with turnaround times under a week
• Worked with clients to create website designs, including creating visual assets and taking photos

• Part of campaign team that won the ‘unwinnable’ 2014 South Australian state election
• Grew social media presence from effectively nothing to large and engaged presence across Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram
• Built showcase websites to highlight important policy proposals to voters in an easy-to-understand way

• Advised Minister on matters relating to science, the information economy, and employment
• Created grants program for early-career researchers in collaboration with Chief Scientist
• Analysis of employment data for Ministerial briefings

• Wrote custom event-planning software that reduced event-related staff time costs by 80%
• Built Senator’s website saving on outsourcing costs
• Provided support to the policy and media teams
• Handled constituent enquiries in professional and timely manner

• Developed and delivered high-quality training course to customers who purchased a Mac
• Provided customer assistance and technical support

Extra-curricular activities:

• Education Officer, Student Representative Council
• Editor + Feature Writer, On Dit Magazine