I'm a developer → engineering manager → product manager → head of product person! I guide the product organisation by fielding the inputs to discover appropriate solutions for our users that are viable for the business. Self-custody is hard and introduces a paradigm shift in the mental model for the convenience-seeking user.
Location: Prague, Czech Republic
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/simonmales/
Personal: https://sime.net.au/
Faxologist, Bitcoin Fax, Berlin
Personal project that allows users to send faxes and pay for them with Bitcoin.
- Opportunity: from time to time, digital natives need to send a fax and Bitcoin doesn't suffer from merchant processing fees on small transactions.
- From December 2021 switched from on-chain to only supporting Bitcoin transactions on the Lightning Network.
Head of Product Software, Trezor, Prague
- Aligning the product organisation with business goals and aligning roadmap developments with specific KPIs
- Developing the competencies of product managers
- Facilitating the communication of product strategies and initiatives with the wider organisation
Co-Founder, Bojagi, Berlin
- Focusing on discovering product-market fit
- Conducting user interviews and product testing
- Outbound sales and pre-sales
Senior Software Engineering Manager, Delivery Hero, Berlin
- Architecting the infrastructure for the Restaurant Portal product and internal plugin SDK.
- Facilitating SCRUM ceremonies for the product team: stand-up, grooming, review and planning.
- Extensively using AWS serverless technologies: Lambda, SQS, SNS and DynamoDB.
- Managing six direct reports, including their performance and professional development.
- Performing screenings and interviewing candidates for positions across the company.
- Soliciting SDK and component library feedback from remote sister teams (Dubai, Singapore and Montevideo).
Senior Web Developer, Tinkerbox Studios, Singapore
- TDD with RSpec.
- AJAX compatible site scraper.
- Migrate MongoDB Arrays into Collections, and deploy MongoDB indexes.
- Implement clean URLs for SEO.
- Reduced assets file size to increase page speed.
- Google Analytics Event tracking for conversion analysis.
Web Developer for stealth mode e-commerce company, Singapore
- Developing front and backend systems using Foundation and CakePHP respectively.
- Converting requirements to Gherkin for BDD and CI with Travis CI.
- Responsive CSS for three widths: 320px, 768px and 1024px.
- Handlebars.js for templating real-time calculations during checkout.
- Automated deployments with Capistrano.
Platform Engineer, Pollenizer, Sydney and Singapore
- Developer and CTO for Coachy, Tiwala, Accruto start-ups.
- Developing from Product Manager provided scenarios.
- Practising lean startup methodologies.
- Relocated to Singapore in October 2012.
- Using CakePHP and Ruby on Rails frameworks.
- Linux System Administration for existing Pollenizer resources.
Web Developer, Buyinvite, Sydney
- CakePHP development of high transacting eCommerce site.
- Resolving process inefficiencies by directly coworking with all departments.
- Re-architected infrastructure, halving the number of servers.
- Reducing page load times.
- MySQL query tuning.
Web Developer, Loaded Technologies, Sydney
- LAMP development.
- Support, maintaining and upgrading both internal and client SugarCRM installations.
- Client requirements gathering.
Web Developer, Independent Digital Media, Sydney
- Developing and supporting PHP sites: homehound.com.au, PRIMPED and The Knot Australia (Rails).
- Formatting HTML newsletters for web based and mail desktop clients.
- XHTML compliance, client side scripting via jQuery.
- Supporting developers, planning deployment and developer processes.
- Web server, database and caching administration.
Technical Support, Creative Computing, Sydney
- Successfully deploy and maintain Linux based Point-Of-Sale servers and clients.
- Establish pre-sale relationships with clients before deployment.
- Remote configuration of services such as Samba, CUPS and Postfix.
- Support internally developed accountancy package.
2016 Certified ScrumMaster, Scrum Alliance
2008 MySQL for Database Administrators, Cliftons, MySQL Training
2006 Linux Professional Institute Certified Level 1 (LPIC-1)
2002 – 2005 Bachelor of Information and Communication Technology, Network Management (Major Study), University of Wollongong.
- Rock climbing