Human Resources

“The secret of my success is that we have gone to exceptional lengths to hire the best people in the world.” Steve Jobs

At SelfKey, we recognise that to become the best, we need to hire the best.

Luke McGinn — Recruiting Lead (LinkedIn)

That’s where Luke McGinn comes in. Luke has been a successful Recruiting Lead for several years and the architect establishing successful teams for some of the world’s leading tech giants.

Luke has contributed to creating several core product teams for behemoths such as Salesforce, Amazon, Uber, Teradata as well as for smaller specialist start-ups. Before joining Selfkey, Luke was working for Amazon in their ‘International Consumer Technology’ sector, his analytical and interpersonal skills are second to none as well as his unparalleled capacity to identify what the company needs and offer the perfect talent to fit the bill. Ensuring that Selfkey is firing on all cylinders and performing at full capacity.

Marketing and Communications

“Marketing is about spreading ideas, and spreading ideas is the single most important output of our civilization.” Seth Godin

The success of Selfkey hinges on our ability to promote ourselves effectively and build a thriving community that shares our vision & objectives.

To ensure exponential growth of the SelfKey community and to drive the marketing strategy of the company forward, we have signed two innovative marketers: Sam Ameen and Laura Woods.

Sam Ameen — Head of Marketing (LinkedIn)

Sam has a strong background in Digital Marketing, User Acquisition and Growth Hacking with a focus on Blockchain & Venture Capital.

A crypto enthusiast, Sam has written about blockchain for a number of publications including Forbes and TechInAsia.

Laura Woods — Head of Marketing (LinkedIn)

Laura specialises in Strategic Marketing, with extensive digital & content marketing, growth hacking & copywriting experience.

Laura has previously worked in the Music Industry for over 7 years creating and managing promotional campaigns for music releases and events. Earlier this year she project managed the launch of one of the UK’s biggest electronic music festivals, South West Four, and has orchestrated several marketing campaigns which have resulted in #1 on iTunes & other platforms in various territories across the world, working with high profile artists such as Avicii & Nile Rodgers in the process. She also has extensive knowledge in E-Commerce, having consulted for several brands selling on Amazon & Ebay setting up their digital marketing campaigns & sales funnels.

Deepak Amirtha Raj — Marketing Strategist (LinkedIn)

Deepak Amirtha Raj has also joined our growing marketing team. He is a Business Research Analyst and a Tech Geek, where for the past years he has worked with clients around the globe on Research projects, Business Analysis, and Corporate Business Strategy development. His International clients have included: HSBC, NatWest, Deloitte and Coutts.

In addition, we have signed two extremely committed, enthusiastic and passionate people to our team. If you are a member of our Telegram community, you may already know them: Susana Nakatani and Konstantine Shestakovskiy.

Susana Nakatani — Marketing & Customer Support (LinkedIn)

Susana is our Customer Support Specialist, an easy-going and empathic person, who is passionate about communication and quality service. She is driven by our vision of self sovereign identity and building a great relationship with our customers. Her skills and dedication are already translating into an effective and enjoyable experience for our users.

With an international background and several years of experience in customer service and marketing in companies around the world, Susana makes sure that there is no question, doubt or concern that is not being addressed.

Konstantine Shestakovskiy — Social Media Marketing & Community Manager

Konstantine is a young professional with a legal background who is a true Selfkey evangelist. He is so passionate about our mission that he began to help us spontaneously, after becoming a very active and helpful member of our community. His valuable commitment and assistance caught our attention and we asked him to become part of the team, and he didn’t think twice.

Konstantine spreads the SelfKey message in social networks and ensures that we are reaching the right people at the right time. He knows that self-sovereign identity is the future and would like to tell the whole world about it.

Operations

“Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.” Albert Einstein

As we are a remote team, it is very important to have a system of processes and procedures in place to ensure all departments are running smoothly. That is why we have signed a high class Operations Specialist that will ensure that SelfKey operations are seamless and effective.

Cristiana Dutca — Operations Director (LinkedIn)

Cristiana Dutca is our Operations Director, in charge of setting company operations strategy and priorities as well monitoring implementation across departments.

Cristiana is an expert in setting up systems and procedures, with over 9 years of experience in managing remote and distributed tech teams.

Product Development

“Great companies are built on great products” Elon Musk

We finish the article with the architects of our project’s cornerstone: the ID Wallet.

We are very proud of our development team and their achievements, but to go a step further we have hired product and technology geniuses to take us to a level of excellence: Desirai Sweder, Terry Lin and Dan Cowell.

Desirai Sweder — Senior Product Manager (LinkedIn)

Desirai is our Senior Product Manager. She has been working with start-ups and building product teams since 2015, as a Product Manager and Head of Product for the Amazon Seller Software company AMZ Tracker.

With a double major in Finance and Management, Desirai truly believes that our project will remedy some of the long standing challenges of the financial system.

Desirai is a coordination and product planning magician, capable of having all development teams aligned at all times.

She knows how to build products adjusted to users’ needs. With Desirai onboard, you can rest assured that we will provide the best user experience.

Terry Lin — Product Manager (LinkedIn)

Terry is our ID Wallet product manager, he designs the prototype and application features for development, effectively connecting our graphic design and development teams.

With more than 5 years at the UBS Investment Bank in Taipei, Terry ensures that no detail of the Wallet, no matter how small, is overlooked.

Dan Cowell — Technical Leader (LinkedIn)

Dan is the technical leader. Dan is an experienced entrepreneur who has built several technology companies and run remote teams worldwide since leaving Australia in 2013.

He has experience building highly-available distributed systems running on several cloud platforms and has deep knowledge of React and Node JS.

Dan is a technology expert, capable of making the right technological strategic decisions for a fast, sustainable and consistent application development. With Dan everyone knows what, when and how.

To speed up our development processes, we have hired four new team members who love to get their hands dirty coding: Ben Gervais, Jason Payne, Marshall White and Ralph Hendrik Delima.

Ben Gervais — DevOps (LinkedIn)

Ben is our DevOps engineer. He has more than 10 years’ experience in managing and developing projects for web and mobile platforms, and his specialty is building MVP first iteration products including UI/UX design, data modelling, implementing business logic, infrastructure configuration and deployment.

Jason Payne — Full Stack Developer (LinkedIn)

Jason is an accomplished senior .NET full stack developer with experience both in front-end application development using WPF / C# / ASP.NET, and in back-end server development including C#, C++, T-SQL, PL/SQL and SSAS. He has a proven track record in investment banking writing efficient code in real-time systems, and he is able to interact with the business and end-users to understand and gather requirements for both product delivery and support, demonstrable by the trader desktop applications he has written for Tier-1 investment banks.

Marshall White — Full Stack Developer (LinkedIn)

Marshall engineers biometrics and machine learning solutions at SelfKey, working primarily in Python and JavaScript. Previously, he worked as an Android and iOS engineer at Runkeeper, and as an iOS engineer at HappsNow.

Ralph Hendrik Delima — QA Engineer (LinkedIn)

Ralph is a QA Engineer at SelfKey, it is his responsibility to ensure quality of the product. His tasks primarily involve reviewing and analyzing business requirements, creating test cases, attending scrum meetings and sprint reviews, executing test, logging bugs and reporting to project manager.

At SelfKey, we are always open for new team members that could add value to our project. If you are passionate on what we are doing and you think that you can help us in some area, don’t hesitate to contact us.

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Thank you for your continued support.