Richard Brindley

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Chief Technology Officer @ Synchtank
United Kingdom
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I thrive on a challenge and my experience is extensive, varied and ‘hands-on’. I am a highly motivated individual with an innovative approach, a lateral thinker who always remembers that it is vital to meet deadlines and ‘get the job done’. I am an expert software developer and systems architect who would identify my key areas of expertise as encompassing the following: Chief Technology Officer Product Innovation Web & Online Advertising Technologies Programme / Project Management Enterprise Architecture on AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Digital Ocean Natural Language Processing / Machine Learning / Data Mining Leading development teams from the front (expert software developer)My strengths include the experience and core abilities to design and build strong commercial products, together with the necessary infrastructure and teams needed to both implement them and provide the necessary ongoing support. My most recent career highlights include:Building out from scratch a Contextual Advertising Platform which integrated many AWS / GCP / DO services and used Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning to integrate with SSPs, DSPs, and Digital Exchanges in the programmatic advertising ecosystem.Building from scratch the team, services, infrastructure, and technology for a brand new Entertainment Recommendations App on iOS and Android featuring several million individual products from dozens of data sources. On an Interim basis helping build and roll out a Contextual and Behavioural advertising platform for a US-based internet advertising start-up, along with design and development of new advertising products in a fully virtualised environment. Building an Internet-based, e-commerce advertising start-up business to £60m turnover. This included new internet advertising technology which has been successfully rolled out across both the US and Europe. When I'm not working, I'm an active Club Rugby referee for Buckinghamshire Rugby Referees Society, and a qualified RFU Level 1 Coach. I also hold a PADI Advanced Open Water SCUBA diving qualification, am a wine lover and a musician and Sound Engineer.

Richard Brindley's Current Company Details
Synchtank

Synchtank

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Chief Technology Officer
United Kingdom
Website:
synchtank.com
Employees:
27
Richard Brindley Work Experience Details
  • Synchtank
    Chief Technology Officer
    Synchtank
    United Kingdom
  • Adinmo
    Chief Product And Technology Officer
    Adinmo Jan 2024 - Present
    Edinburgh, Gb
    AdInMo develop InGamePlay Brand Experiences - the next level in mobile game monetization
  • Modix International
    Interim Chief Technology Officer
    Modix International Apr 2023 - Nov 2023
    Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, De
    6 month engineering & delivery operational transformation engagement, with a focus on customer service, collaboration, and transparency.Technical due diligence with deliverables of a technology debt register and proposed remediation plan.Re-alignment of engineering and delivery teams around Agile cross-functional customer teams. Agile training and mentoring (Scrum / Kanban).Creation of a new 2nd line support team.In-depth analysis and optimisation of SDLC processes.Delivering team improvements to focus on critical business priorities.
  • Quintesse
    Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder
    Quintesse Jun 2019 - Mar 2023
    New York, Ny, Us
    Quintesse is the extension of the Vibrant Media advertising platform into the Programmatic Ecosystem. Built from the ground up on the latest AI technologies such as Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning, it adds Semantic & Sentiment Recognition as well as Emotional Tone detection to an already industry leading Contextual Targeting platform. Audience Targeting (aka Topics) based on the Contextual signals the user was consuming along side Search Intent (what search keywords could the user have used to get to a specific page) is also in the platform in order to combine Audience with on-page Contextual.Contextual Connected TV targeting, a combination of contextual analysis of CTV channels, Electronic Programme Guides, and cross-device audience targeting .Integrations at the SSP, DSP, and Exchange level with companies such as Avocet, MediaGrid, and Xandr, it provides a Curation platform to curate Open Market advertising with Contextual, Behavioural, and Search Intent signals. Hosted in Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, and Digital Ocean data centres, it provides sub-millisecond bidstream augmentation when directly connected data centres, and between 3ms and 7ms bidstream augmentation across the internet.An advanced self-service booking interface provides access to 700+ pre-built Contextual segments and Machine Learning / AI based creation of Custom segments in minutes.
  • Vibrant Media
    Chief Information Officer
    Vibrant Media Jun 2017 - Mar 2023
    New York, New York, Us
    Asked by the Vibrant Media board to re-join Vibrant Media as a permanent CTO, to help transform Vibrant Media from a loss-making non-programmatic AdTech / MarTech company to a profitable entity servicing the programmatic ecosystem.Resolved significant standing issues with the legacy platform and led the effort to modernise / re-platform from an aging bare metal server infrastructure into AWS.Helped turn Vibrant Media from a $4m per year loss making company to a $1m per year profit making company.Led maintenance and onward development of Vibrant Media’s core technologies (JavaScript, Node.JS, Java, SQL)Managed high-level discussions with all external parties, including investor discussions at board level.Worked as General Manager for the UK business.
  • Itcher
    Co-Founder And Cto
    Itcher Jan 2016 - Jun 2017
    London, Lambeth, Gb
    Not so long ago it was easy to find stores where you could browse and discover movies, books, music and games.Unfortunately, these establishments are quickly becoming a thing of the past. As a result it is increasingly difficult for us, entertainment lovers, to find the next thing to watch, read, listen to and play.We wanted to change this, so we created itcher.Built the team, infrastructure, back-end services and database, and worked with the other co-founder and designer to design the iOS and Android mobile apps as well as desktop and mobile web apps for the Entertainment Recommendations system Itcher. Designed highly complex data mining and machine learning systems for Recommendations and Related Items as well as the process for merging items from disparate data sources to provide a coherent UX. Architected fully virtualised service on Amazon Web Services (EC2, Route 53, S3, CloudFront, RDS, DynamoDB, Redshift, Elasticache/Redis, CloudSearch), including a multi-layer cache architecture using multiple services for maximum site responsiveness.Integrated multiple 3rd-party data sources such as Netflix, Amazon, and iTunes (PHP / MySQL).
  • Honor Mountain Interactive Inc
    Co-Founder And Cto
    Honor Mountain Interactive Inc Jan 2016 - Jan 2017
    Entertaining the world through Sports Gaming
  • Madbid.Com
    Technical Director (Cto)
    Madbid.Com Nov 2012 - Feb 2016
    London, England, Gb
    MadBid.com, the leading Pan-European pay-to-bid interactive Social Auction site, allows users to bid on over 2,000 brand new products. MadBid.com operates in the USA and Canada, Australia, and eight European countries including France, Italy, Germany, Spain and Ireland as well as the UK. MadBid.com has a set of unique interactive social commerce features and creates a personalised experience by matching auctions to users' interests.Built the team and infrastructure that allowed MadBid to expand geographically from 3 countries to 11. Made significant architecture improvements for speed and scalability to the legacy real-time bidding platform. Architected a complete replacement software platform (PHP / MySQL) on AWS. Implemented / integrated a variety of Payment Processing and anti-fraud systems (device fingerprinting, geo-location, ID document verification), as well as purchase order and warehouse stock management systems.Built and managed a 10-person offshore software development team in Sofia, Bulgaria. Led Agile process.Contributed to product development, marketing, and business intelligence activities.
  • Paladin Consultancy Ltd
    Owner
    Paladin Consultancy Ltd Mar 2009 - Nov 2012
    Interim CTO, Programme Director, and Project Management consultancy
  • Netshelter
    Technical Consultant / Chief Architect
    Netshelter Jun 2010 - Oct 2012
    San Francisco, California, Us
    Building new Ad Targeting & Enrichment platform including Contextual, Behavioural, Search, Demographic, and Influence Targeting capabilities, integrated with Social Media platforms.Built a custom Analytics platform to measure advertising campaign success from the impression through to the final interaction across the network.Architected and Built out a full suite of Cloud Services based on Amazon EC2, including RDS (MySQL), ELB (Load Balancing), S3/CloudFront (CDN), CloudWatch (Monitoring), MapReduce (Hadoop), SQS (Queue Services), SNS (Alerts), EBS (Storage), CloudFormation (Deployment), Route 53 (DNS)
  • Netshelter
    Interim Chief Technology Officer
    Netshelter May 2009 - May 2010
    San Francisco, California, Us
    Built and managed product and engineering teams to deliver Ad Platform Enrichment Layer (Contextual / Behavioural) as well as $4m+ of Custom Programs for Blue Chip clients such as Microsoft, IBM, HP, and Blackberry.
  • Vibrant Media
    Chief Technology Officer
    Vibrant Media Dec 2000 - Dec 2008
    New York, New York, Us
    Built and lead a team of 30 technology staff across 3 geographic locations.Main technical innovator for all of Vibrant’s products (IntelliTXT / In-Text, InterestAD, Related Content), software development (SQL, Java, VB, ASP).Algorithm design for the Contextual Advertising and Behavioural Advertising, business data extraction and analysis.Design of front and back-office systems through financial reporting and billing.Datacentre build-outs in London, New York, San Francisco, Andover and San Jose.Completed investment due diligence, prepared Vibrant’s technology for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. Patent applications for 3 products.Senior level discussions with AOL, Microsoft, and Yahoo, pre-sales engineering with Web Publishers in the UK, USA, and Europe.Lead Portfolio, Program, and Project Management initiatives.Lead design and build-out of technical infrastructure for 8 regional offices.
  • Itswine.Com
    It Director
    Itswine.Com May 1999 - Dec 2000
    Technical / I.T. Direction, with responsibility for defining departmental / corporate policies for in-house I.T. systems. Defining and managing web-based corporate presence and e-commerce solutions, with a view to increasing the presence of the company in the massively important area of the Internet. Providing technical input to Marketing, Sales, and Operations Directors to facilitate the definition of future routes to market.During my tenure, the business evolved from a 20k per annum turnover garage-based business where order capture, payment, and fulfilment systems were totally manual, to a 400k per annum turnover business employing 14 people where a product range of around 320 individual lines can be ordered on the web site, and via up to the minute stock control are guaranteed in-stock, and are picked, packed, and shipped typically within one working day.
  • Kodak Ltd
    Systems Consultant
    Kodak Ltd Apr 1995 - Mar 1999
    Rochester, New York, Us
    Systems Consultant with Kodak Ltd.Lead Windows software developer for user software for very first commercial digital camera (Kodak DC20), and subsequent digital cameras (DC40, DC50, DC120, DC210, DC220). Developed Picture Postcard Software and Picture Easy Software.Designed and developed low cost scan/print systems for emerging markets.Designed and developed critial components of the Kodak Internet Print Service.
  • Bank Of America
    Advisory Systems Engineer
    Bank Of America May 1989 - Apr 1995
    Charlotte, Nc, Us
    The work for Bank of America encompassed the development of both back-office PC-based client systems, and VAX/VMS server systems. Analysis, design, and implementation of international bank clearing systems and message switching systems on VAX minicomputers and IBM PCs. This included clearing systems written for Germany, Switzerland, and the U.K., DECnet task-to-task and X.25 host-to-host communication links, TCP/IP interfaces, and WAN interfaces (FTAM). These systems required in-depth knowledge of network architectures, communications protocols, and VMS system services. Analysis and design documentation writing, Data Flow Diagrams and Structure Charts, Yourdon/De Marco structured methodologies and CASE tools. The emphasis was always on modularity and Object Orientation.Part of my responsibilities involved managing small projects of 2-5 people.

Richard Brindley Skills

Leadership E Commerce Consulting Amazon Web Services Strategic Partnerships Linux Rest Online Marketing Digital Strategy User Experience Web Applications Start Ups Networking Mobile Marketing Digital Media Web Development Agile Methodologies Web Analytics Team Leadership Digital Marketing Advertising Integrated Marketing Customer Relationship Management Seo Strategy Natural Language Processing Artificial Intelligence Google Cloud Platform Online Advertising Java Entrepreneurship Program Management Digitalocean Product Management Php Sql Python Saas Management Product Development Project Management Software Development Machine Learning Analytics Mobile Devices Cloud Computing Integration Crm Mysql Ppc

Richard Brindley Education Details

  • North East Surrey College Of Technology
    North East Surrey College Of Technology
    Statistics
  • Tiffin Grammar School
    Tiffin Grammar School
    French

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