Tim Rogers

I'm a product manager and software engineer based in London 🇬🇧, working at GitHub .

I founded and sold my own startup, Reward Flight Finder, and helped to build two Y Combinator Top Companies from the ground up: GoCardless and Duffel.

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Freelancing

2013 - present

Leads To You

Leads To You is a lead generation company which links up consumers with local service providers, for example to install government-subsidised solar panels.

I worked with them to build:

a reusable, extensible system for passing inbound leads to buyers, connecting directly into their CRM systems
tools to better track their customers' experience after connecting them to a local supplier, using an SMS survey to gather data
a customer support phone system, in line with the Nodephone tool which I built at GoCardless, a complete tool for managing inbound customer support calls.

RouteMap

RouteMap were a social enterprise seeking to help students work out what university course is right for them, working directly with top universities to deliver unique educational content.

I helped the company build its first prototype in Ruby on Rails, gaining significant seed funding from Wayra Unltd, and taking part in a competition, iDEA, run by the Duke of York culminating in a reception at St James's Palace.

London School of Economics

During my studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science, I freelanced for the Government department, building software to aid in data collection and analysis for political science research.

I contributed to Hagemann, Hobolt and Wratil's 2016 paper "Government Responsiveness in the European Union: Evidence From Council Voting", building tools to speed research assistants' data collection on European Union legislation by scraping EU websites and automatically pulling out the most important information.

Other contributions I made form the basis of future papers still to be published, including:

research on decisions in the Council of the European Union, for which I wrote a tool to parse PDF releases using OCR technology and pull out key pieces of information
research on the impact of reading news on people's political opinions, for which I built a dummy news site with detailed behaviour tracking

Fused

Fused is a web hosting company with a focus on providing great, differentiating customer service.

I helped them build a number of features to boost their customer experience, including:

a Twilio-powered tool for requesting and managing callbacks from their customer support team
a new super-charged signup flow powered by the WHMCS and cPanel APIs

Point Hacks

I worked with top Australian frequent flyer site Point Hacks to build a tool to help users to get the best value when transferring their air miles to other partners (for example spending them on online shopping).

Working in JavaScript, I built a tool backed by a Google Spreadsheet, allowing conversation rates and partners to be kept up to date extremely simply, providing an invaluable tool for point collectors.

Volgati

Volgati was a startup trying to radically change and democratise the fashion industry, connecting fashion enthusiasts with their favourite brands and more importantly designers.

I built their prototype site as they sought to raise funding and cement their relationship with the British Fashion Council.

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