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Ryan Drake-Stoker

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CTO and Co-founder
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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  • Lumerate
    CTO and co-founder
    Lumerate
    Jun 2012 - Current (14 years 1 month)
    Working to help found and run the technical and development side of things for Lumerate, the smart industry awareness and prospecting tool for sales teams in the biotech/pharma industry. We have bootstrapped from just an idea and now have more than 400 clients and growing. Our customers range from one man operations to a number of multi-billion dollar multinationals. Bootstrapping Lumerate means I was the principle developer on a lot of our technology and have worked on all aspect of the SaaS software and server infrastructure. Highlights include using ReactJS/Flux at the front end for a mobile web app, NLP and Deep Learning RNN's for data categorization and writing ElasticSearch plug-in’s to support Lumerate specific use cases. As we
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    Freelance/Exploring
    FreelanceStartup Research
    Jan 2011 - Jan 2012 (1 year 1 month)
    Doing exploration and business concept validation assessments on a range of software start ups involving such diverse industries as mobile fitness, real estate and appointment scheduling. The occasional short term development project primarily in Scala/Lift.
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    VP, Product Development and Technology
    CPNI Inc
    Jan 2010 - Jan 2011 (1 year 1 month)
    Led the product and development teams at CPNI. With responsibility for product strategy I sought to expand CPNI’s offerings out of the financial industry and looked to apply our technologies in other industry verticals.
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    Technical Product Manager
    CPNI Inc
    Jan 2007 - Jan 2010 (3 years 1 month)
    Responsible for the conception and direction of CPNI’s mobile financial products, I oversaw the development of a number of innovative products including mobile app based fund transfers, mobile banking, and m-commerce applications. This involved working side by side with the sales team, working with our partner service providers such as IBM and talking to potential customers and evolving product direction based on their feedback and priorities. This role involved extensive travel and pitching to senior executives at global financial institutions and regulatory bodies.
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    Technical Team Leader
    CPNI Inc
    Jun 2005 - Jan 2007 (1 year 8 months)
    Leading a team of five developers developing CPNI’s phone based money transfer technology with Java/J2EE technologies. Practiced agile project management with iterative development around user stories and sprints. The team used extreme programming techniques including pair programming, unit testing and continuous integration.
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    Software Development Team Lead
    Auriga Systems
    Jan 2001 - Jan 2005 (4 years 1 month)
    Leading a team of four developers on the development of Auriga's next generation vehicle tracking, command and control, call centre and dispatch software for private car hire companies, managing fleets of up to 5000 vehicles using GPS processing data over packet radio. J2EE/JavaSwing technologies.
  • Metapack Group
    Software Developer
    Metapack Group
    Jan 2000 - Jan 2001 (1 year 1 month)
    Junior software developer, working on Java/J2EE JSP based web applications.
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  • London South Bank University
    Masters, Advanced IT
    London South Bank University
    Jan 1998 - Dec 2000 (3 years)
  • The University of Manchester
    Bachelors, Physics
    The University of Manchester
    Jan 1992 - Dec 1996 (5 years)
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