Danyang Liu
Entrepreneur, Investor & Engineering Leader
Techstars, Wayra & Springboard Alumni
Kroo Bank
Who you bank with matters, Kroo is an award-winning digital bank that has your back
Highlights
- Innovative Banking with Purpose: Kroo Bank is positioned as a “bank with a conscience” that aims to redefine banking by aligning people, planet, and profit for lasting positive impact.
- Cultural and Environmental Focus: The bank’s mission to be built for today’s climate and culture emphasizes ethical banking, sustainability, and social responsibility.
- Modern Financial Services: Kroo leverages technology and forward-thinking practices to create banking solutions that are both customer-centric and socially beneficial.
- Team and Squad Expansion: Scaled the Engineering function from 4 to 10 squads, leading a dynamic team of 11 Tech Leads and 40–50 engineers.
- Specialist Platform Development: Launched three specialist Platform Squads to drive focused investment into core technology foundations and accelerate growth.
- Career and Performance Framework: Built a comprehensive career framework, including a levelling ladder, skills matrix, and promotion processes to recognize and reward high performers.
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ONSI
Insurance and benefits for independent work
Highlights
- Revolutionizing Employee Rewards: Collective Benefits (ONSI) offers a rewards card that incentivizes workers through savings, insurance, and pay—enabling flexible workforces to thrive.
- Empowering Flexible Work: The platform is tailored to support some of the world’s largest businesses by ensuring that flexible workers are not only supported but empowered to excel.
- Focus on Scalability and Innovation: ONSI is committed to building a high-performance, scalable technology platform using modern architectures like microservices and serverless computing.
- Greenfield Platform Development: Led the design and development of a scalable technology platform built on microservices and serverless architecture to ensure high availability.
- Technical Leadership & Direction: Provided strategic leadership to the engineering team, ensuring efficient performance and alignment with business objectives.
- Ground-Up Business Contribution: Played a pivotal role in building the business and platform from inception, making critical technical decisions that shaped the company’s growth.
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Lenny
Short term, flexible car insurance for the sharing generation
Highlights
- Instant cover: You can get on the road in no time with a super simple sign-up process and an instant short-term car insurance quote.
- Total flexibility: Hourly car insurance, daily car insurance, weekly car insurance, you’re in the driver’s seat. And if you fancy turning a weekend into a long one our pay as you go insurance means you can extend on the fly in just a few taps.
- Cover ahead of time: Need short term insurance but not right now? No sweat, Lenny allows you to book your temp car cover up to 28 days in advance. Getting pre-approved means when the time comes, you can jump in the driver’s seat and go!
- Comprehensive insurance policies: windscreen cover, personal belongings cover, courtesy car for the owner and emergency medical treatment. So if anything goes wrong you know you’re covered.
- Owner peace of mind: rest assured when you borrow a car from a friend or family member, the owner’s no-claims bonus is totally unaffected by any claim. Lenny policies are underwritten by a Standard & Poor’s A+ stable rated insurer with 1.5 million policyholders in the UK alone.
CompareTheMarket
The Meerkat app is where you’ll find all the best things that Compare the Market has to offer
Highlights
- Over 6 million users and 2 million Monthly Active Users across our Android and iOS apps
- I lead and grew the Mobile function to over 20 engineers in 2 countries (UK & Belarus)
- The mobile app was marketted regularly with dozens of commercials across TV and Cinema in the UK
- We released native mobile apps for Android and iOS, across Mobile Phones & Tablets
- The mobile app grew to house many products including Customer Rewards, Insurance Comparison, Bills & Savings, Open Banking
- I was responsible for People, Tech, Architecture & Strategy across Mobile
Upshot
A fun, realtime, automatic photo & video sharing Mobile app for events and group nights out
Highlights
- Automatic background detection and uploading of new photos and videos taken using any camera app
- Time based activation to only capture events and nights out
- Hundreds of thousands photos; shared, liked and remixes
- Auto content deletion after preset time (7 days)
- Featured by Techcrunch
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Togethera
A privacy, family focussed social network for Web and Mobile.
Highlights
- Share photos, videos, emoji reactions and comments
- Share across multiple groups in a single tap
- Full offline support, including content creation
- Low-res and Full High-res uploads
- Premium membership with enhanced functionality
- Realtime in-app updates
- Featured by Techcrunch, Wired, Gizmodo and more
- Featured by Apple and Google in over 100 countries
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