Mike Donnelly Email & Phone Number

Edinburgh, Gb

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Technology lead on the team creating Readable – a fun, social & fast language-learning app. Readable enables everyone to learn English for free by reading for pleasure. It's a small team so we wear all the hats going. As tech lead, I spend most of my time working on...• UI and business logic dev – Javascript, React Native• Database design – MongoDB, SQLite, CouchDB• Building content creation tools – Node.js, react-admin, Symfony• Building analytics tools – Firebase, BigQuery, Data Studio• Computational linguistics – Python, Docker...and constant research! I'll also be pulled in to collaborate with the team on UX design, product design, marketing, business strategy.★ Readable was a finalist in the ELTons (2020), the preeminent international English language teaching awards.★ Readable is a member of the Educate accelerator at the world’s #1 educational research institution, UCL’s Institute of Education

London & Edinburgh

Founder and technology lead at digital agency Coob, developing software for...• BBC Learning, BBC Drama & Entertainment – Many successful projects, including BIMA nominated BBC Webwise which gained the BBC’s highest Net Promoter score on bbc.co.uk for 18 consecutive months.• Amazon – We developed the prototype of Amazon's video-on-demand Fire TV interface.• Arika – Media archive website for Turner Prize winning (2020) arts organisation.• National Museums Scotland – Series of playful historical interactives.• Bòcan – Website for leading Gaelic language learning resource.• City of Edinburgh Council – General election live-results service, as featured in The Guardian.

Edinburgh

Technology lead of a team creating fun, social & fast language-learning apps in partnership with Cambridge University Press... • Wordable – A competitive multiplayer language-learning game for Android and iOS. Finalist in the 2018 ELTon Awards (Innovation in Learner Resources category). Currently on 100K+ installs (all platforms) and 4.7 stars on Android Play.• Lingopolis – An innovative browser-based isometric city-building game for learning vocabulary. Finalist in the 2016 ELTon Awards (Digital Innovation category).• Playlingo were winners of Innovate UK's Innovation in Education contest.

London

Back at the turn of the century I was living in London and finding my feet in digital. I was juggling projects at lots of agencies / companies, e.g. Virgin Media, Glue London, Londonbuzz.My favourite was an endearingly basic game called Chip Grabber, for McCains (the ovenchip company). You can still play it to this day! https://www.flashgamesplayer.com/free/chip-grabber/play.html