Our company

Jon Reynolds

Co-Founder and CEO

What do you do?

I help set strategy and direction for company, help create the right culture and environment for the business, make sure the right things are happening across the business, manage relationships with investors and key customers.

Where have you studied?

MA, Natural Sciences (Physics), University of Cambridge; Advanced Diploma in Management Accountancy, CIMA.

What's your proudest achievement?

The first launch of SwiftKey was a great feeling, waking up to 50k downloads!

Ben Medlock

Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer

What do you do?

I am responsible for overseeing the product/technology side of the business, for driving innovation and establishing and promoting our company vision.

Where have you studied?

Computer science at Durham, followed by an MPhil and PhD at Cambridge in applied natural language processing.

Tell us a weird fact...

My music is currently being played in clothing stores in eastern Europe.

Mark Paterson

Chairman

What do you do?

At SwiftKey, helping the company get where it is today. Before that, contributing to the launch of Orange.

Where have you studied?

University of Westminster, Inns of Court School of Law, Bristol University, Kings College London.

Where have you worked before?

I was General Counsel at Orange for 12 years from the founding days of the business then took roles in business and corporate development. I am also a qualified barrister and was called to the Bar in 1983 (Middle Temple).

Richard Gibson

Chief Finance Officer

What do you do?

I am responsible for managing finance, strategic and commercial business matters.

Where have you studied?

BA Geography and Archeology, Southampton University; ACA – Chartered Accountant as a professional qualification.

Where have you worked before?

I worked as an independent business consultant with a number of VC-backed businesses.  Before then I worked for 9 years in a leading UK Private Equity investment business working with growth business across a range of sectors.

Rhodri Thomas

Chief Commercial Officer

What do you do?

I am responsible for all our commercial and business development activities. This primarily means I work with licensees of our software and other stakeholders in the mobile sector.

Where have you studied?

BSc Managerial and Administrative Studies, University of Aston.

What languages do you speak?

None. I speak very bad GCSE French and Spanish. I sing songs in Welsh after a few too many drinks…

Joe Braidwood

Chief Marketing Officer

What do you do?

I take overall responsibility for the company’s marketing, community, consumer insight and comms strategies.

Where have you studied?

MA, Law, University of Cambridge; MPA, Public Policy and American Institutions, Brown University.

What programming languages do you speak?

HTML, CSS, PHP.

Lucy Yu

Chief Operating Officer

What do you do?

I manage a portfolio of areas including office infrastructure and operations, recruitment, and human resources. I’m also guardian of our risk register and responsible for making us a great place to work – no pressure, then! 

Where have you studied?

Chemistry, Imperial College; Economics, London School of Economics (LSE).

Where have you worked before?

I was assistant director at the Cabinet Office, responsible for civil contingencies, with a focus on communications resilience in the UK.

Brandon Mensinga

VP Product Management

What do you do?

I am responsible for the product portfolio including requirements, roadmap and market opportunities.

Where have you studied?

Bachelor of Business Administration with specializations in marketing and information technology, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada.

What's the best thing about working at SwiftKey?

Working for the little train that could.

Neil MacDonald

VP, Sales

What do you do?

I’m responsible for making sure as many people as possible can use our technology!

Where have you studied?

Information Systems, Kingston Polytechnic.

What languages do you speak?

French.

Andy Wilde

VP Product Development

What do you do?

I head up the core software engineering teams which develop SwiftKey’s software technology and products.

Where have you studied?

Computer Science, Leicester.

What languages do you speak?

Tourist French.

Thomas Kousholt

Head of Professional Services

What do you do?

My team is responsible for successful integration of our technology into our customers’ platforms and devices.

Where have you studied?

Computer Science, Tietgen Skolen, Odense, Denmark.

What's your proudest achievement?

Building a best in class professional services team to provide support to our growing number of customers.

Caroline Gasperin

Language Team Lead

What do you do?

I manage our growing Language Team.

Where have you studied?

PhD, Computer Science, University of Cambridge; MSc and BSc, Computer Science, Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Brazil.

What languages do you speak?

Portuguese: native, Spanish: intermediate, French: intermediate.

Paul Butcher

Chief Software Architect

What do you do?

Ben, our CTO, is responsible for what we build. I’m responsible for ensuring that we build it right.

Where have you studied?

DPhil in Natural Sciences (Mathematics and Computing) at Durham followed by a PhD in Computer Science looking at languages for parallel and distributed programming at York.

Where have you worked before?

I was CTO of Texperts, a “mobile find” company that was acquired by kgb (the company behind 118118).

Adam Clements

Software Engineer

What do you do?

I build stuff.

Where have you studied?

Computer Science at Sunderland University

Where have you worked before?

I started my own business building a platform and applications for multi-touch computer tables.

Adam Cutmore

Software Engineer for Professional Services

What do you do?

Software Engineer with the client-facing Professional Services team.

 

Where have you studied?

Computing at Imperial College London.

What programming languages do you speak?

Java.

Alex Gayer

Finance Director

What do you do?

I have responsibility for the company’s financial strategy, management and operations, driving shareholder value and ensuring the company is well positioned to continue its phenomenal growth.

Where have you studied?

I hold an MBA from London Business School, a BSc in Management Science from UMIST and I’m a Chartered Accountant (ACA) having qualified with PwC.

Tell us a weird fact...

Believe it or not I once had dreadlocks!

Alex Nabrozidis del Barrio

Software Engineer

What do you do?

I am a software engineer working on SwiftKey Healthcare.

Where have you studied?

I studied at the University of Malaga, Spain.

What's the best thing about working at SwiftKey?

Being able to combine my passion for working with the healthcare sector with my personal ambition to find the ideal app for tablets.

Alex Nixon

Software Engineer

What do you do?

I am one of the team of core software engineers.

Where have you studied?

Computer Science, University of Cambridge; I also tacked a year of the undergrad-level Management Studies Tripos onto the end.

What languages do you speak?

I speak French poorly and German worse.

Amanda Sears

Financial Controller

What do you do?

I am responsible for the day-to-day finance operations of the business such as monthly accounts, invoicing, budgeting, expenses, etc.

Where have you studied?

Natural Sciences at Cambridge, specializing in Chemistry.

What programming languages do you speak?

Absolutely none.

Anita Woodruff

Software Engineer Intern

What do you do?

I work on SwiftKey.

Where have you studied?

Computer Science and Mathematics at the University of Bath.

What programming languages do you speak?

Java and some C, C#, Prolog and Lisp.

Arpi Vezer

Software Engineer

What do you do?

I’m a software engineer with the SDK team, developing SwiftKey’s prediction engine.

 

Where have you studied?

Computer Science MEng at the University of Warwick.

Tell us a weird fact...

I’m getting increasingly hooked on cycling.

Attila Szász

Language Processing Engineer

What do you do?

I am part of the team extending the number of languages SwiftKey supports.

Where have you studied?

Computer Science BSc and Communication and Media, Engineer, at Timisoara Polytechnic University, Romania; Internet Technologies, Scholarship at Oulu University of Applied Sciences, Finland.

What programming languages do you speak?

C/C++, Java, PHP, Unix shell scripting, JavaScript. Some exposure to: Python, Android, R.

Beatriz Viñal Murciano

Software Engineer for Professional Services

What do you do?

I work with clients as part of our Professional Services team.

Where have you studied?

I studied Telecommunication Engineering at the Technical University of Madrid (UPM) and I did my final degree project at Queen Mary, University of London, as an Erasmus student.

What programming languages do you speak?

Java, SQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript.

Ben Leavett

Professional Services Technical Lead

What do you do?

I lead the technical side of the work by the Professional Services team.

Where have you studied?

Computer Science, University of Bristol

What's your proudest achievement?

Not yet – come and ask me again soon!

Bin Li

Data Architect

What do you do?

I work on a range of projects.

Where have you studied?

University of Surrey (MSc, PhD student, research fellow) since 2006.

What's the best thing about working at SwiftKey?

It is a company with much potential and a star product.

Blazej Czapp

Software Engineer

What do you do?

I work on SwiftKey.

Where have you studied?

Computer Science at the University of Southampton, Maritime Navigation at Southampton Solent University

What languages do you speak?

Polish, a little German.

Catalina Hallet

Language Engineer

What do you do?

I am a language engineer working on SwiftKey.

Where have you studied?

BSc and MSc in Computing in my native Romania, PhD in Computational Linguistics, University of Wolverhampton.

Tell us a weird fact...

I can’t stand social networking sites.

Catherine Stewart

Project Manager

What do you do?

I work with our clients as part of the Professional Services team.

Where have you studied?

English at the University of Reading.

What's the best thing about working at SwiftKey?

I’m pretty new – I’ll let you know soon!

Charlie Edmunds

Head of Consumer Insight

What do you do?

I look at all aspects of what customers are doing, from how many downloads we are getting and what proportion of trial users are upgrading right through to what they are saying about us on Twitter and in our VIP Community.

Where have you studied?

Genetics then a PhD in Molecular Biology at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge.

What's your proudest achievement?

PirateKey – a Pirate-themed SwiftKey for Talk Like a Pirate Day that let our VIP members text and tweet like pirates. Look out for NinjaKey in future…

Chetan Padia

Software Engineer

What do you do?

This is difficult to define. I’ve done a lot of different stuff!

Where have you studied?

MEng in Computer Systems and Software Engineering with a year in industry, University of York.

What languages do you speak?

Gujarati with family. Basic Spanish and German. Also some French. And I understand little bits of Slovak.

Chris Carr

Strategy Manager

What do you do?

I am responsible for identifying how to turn revenue from our technology from millions to billions!

Where have you studied?

Law at Selwyn College, Cambridge University.

What's your proudest achievement?

Not yet, I’ve only recently joined!

Chris Charlton

Languages Engineer

What do you do?

I am a bridge between the languages and SwiftKey team eg working on the Chinese UI – Wei and Leilei do the clever stuff and I make it appear on screen. I also work on OEM integrations.

Where have you studied?

BA Computer Science, Cambridge University. PhD Cambridge University Engineering Department. I’m also a Chartered Engineer and a professional-level member of BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT.

What languages do you speak?

Tourist-level German, French and Spanish. For the languages team, I’ve worked on Turkish and Finnish and know a little bit about Korean and Chinese.

Craig Marsden

System Administrator

What do you do?

I’m responsible for managing our internal and external IT services as well as playing a role in forming the infrastructure of new and existing projects.

Where have you studied?

Computer Science, University of Sunderland.

What languages do you speak?

None but I can understand some French and Spanish.

Craig Warren

Professional Services engineer

What do you do?

I work to integrate SwiftKey’s technology with our clients on new and exciting devices.

 

Where have you studied?

I went to Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh.

What's your proudest achievement?

Not yet… I’ve just started.

David Martinez

Software Engineer

What do you do?

I am a software engineer working on SwiftKey.

Where have you studied?

Masters in Computer Science, from the University of the Basque Country (EHU) in Spain; Masters in Software Engineering – from Ecole d’ingénieurs en informatique (EPITA) in Paris, France.

What's the best thing about working at SwiftKey?

The talented people you work with and the continuous challenge.

David Williams

Software Engineer

What do you do?

I’m responsible for our big data storage and processing.

Where have you studied?

BA Mathematics and Philosophy at Jesus College, Cambridge.

Where have you worked before?

At Cambridge studying Philosophy!

Dongjin Bae

Professional Services engineer in Korea

What do you do?

I offer technical support for customers in Korea for the Professional Services team.

Where have you studied?

Chemical engineering in Keimyung University in Korea.

Where have you worked before?

Access, a Japanese company.

Dongyi Chun

Professional Services engineer, Korea

What do you do?

I’m working with the Professional Services team in Korea supporting some of our major clients.

Where have you studied?

I studied Computer Engineering and Chemical Engineering at Hongik University in Seoul, Korea.

What's your proudest achievement?

Outside work, my private Android project which recorded more than 1 million downloads in Google Play.

Doug Holmes

Business Development Manager for Healthcare

What do you do?

I am in charge of the business development of SwiftKey Healthcare in the US market.

Where have you studied?

Bachelor of Science in Marketing from Penn State University.

What's your proudest achievement?

Just being part of such a great team.

Doug Orr

Software Engineer

What do you do?

I work on the core prediction engine that underlies SwiftKey’s great predictions.

Where have you studied?

MEng, Engineering, University of Cambridge.

What's the best thing about working at SwiftKey?

Working with smart people to try to solve interesting problems.

Dvora Schur

Project Manager

What do you do?

I am a project manager for the Professional Services team.

Where have you studied?

Computer Programming Diploma, Israel Defence Forces Programming School (Mamram).

Tell us a weird fact...

I spent two years in South Carolina, US working on my golf game. Plus the ’Remember The Milk’ app rules my life…

Evan Tapper

Community Manager

What do you do?

I look after our VIP forum, addressing feedback, answering queries and making sure the teams of developers understand what matters most to our invaluable community.

Where have you studied?

I started university but ultimately decided it wasn’t for me.

Where have you worked before?

I’ve always been into exploring technology and its role in everyday life – but this is my first official job in this area.

Francisco Sanchez Garcia

Software Engineer

What do you do?

I work on the client side of SwiftKey.

Where have you studied?

Computer Science in the University of Málaga.

What languages do you speak?

Spanish

Gareth Jones

Head of Intellectual Property

What do you do?

As Head of IP, I look after our patents and other intellectual property.

Where have you studied?

MEng in Software Engineering at the University of Southampton.

What's your proudest achievement?

Not yet – I’ve only recently joined.

George Hategan

Tech lead, SwiftKey servers team.

What do you do?

I am the tech lead for the SwiftKey servers team.

Where have you studied?

BS and MS in Computer Science, University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

What's your proudest achievement?

The personalization server.

Helen Corbett

PA and office assistant

What do you do?

My job involves diary planning, travel arrangements and helping Min the Office Manager with the general running of the office, as well as lots of other random things…

Where have you studied?

I studied BSc Development Economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS).

 

Where have you worked before?

I worked as a chiropractic assistant.

Hwasung Lee

Software Engineer for complex languages

What do you do?

I am a software engineer in the Complex Languages team. I look into various techniques we can use to improve upon languages that are linguistically rich.

Where have you studied?

DPhil in Mathematics, Oxford University; MASt in Mathematics, Cambridge University; BSc in Mathematics and Physics, Seoul National University.

What's your proudest achievement?

I have just started so I don’t have one yet at SwiftKey. Among previous projects, I am proud of my work at Google and my PhD project.

Hyosoo Kim

Korea Country Manager

What do you do?

I am the commercial manager for SwiftKey’s office in Korea.

Where have you studied?

BS and MS in Computer Engineering, Seoul National University in Korea.

What programming languages do you speak?

C, Java.

Jalpa Zaladi

Language Processing Engineer

What do you do?

I’ve just joined the languages team to build language models and utilities for some new languages.

Where have you studied?

I did my first BA and MA degree in India where I grew up, both in Information Technology and Computer Application. Then an MPhil in Advanced Computer Science from Cambridge University.

What's your proudest achievement?

Before joining SwiftKey, I really enjoyed working on my last project at Flynet. I was a part of the team who developed a Web Service Generation tool. The challenge was to facilitate multiple databases and provide intuitive graphical interface to enable less technical user to create the important data links.

James Aley

Software Engineer

What do you do?

I work on SwiftKey and the SwiftKey SDK.

Where have you studied?

BSc Computer Science, King’s College London.

Where have you worked before?

I worked at Symbian, Nokia, then Symbian Foundation.

James Clarke

SwiftKey Dev Team Lead

What do you do?

I am a software engineer and am responsible for leading development projects in the SwiftKey Team.

Where have you studied?

BA (Hons) Geography (focusing on social and economic geography), UCL, University of London; MSc Computing Science from Birkbeck College, University of London.

Tell us a weird fact...

I like Emacs and coffee.

James Hay

Head of Enterprise Partnerships

What do you do?

I am responsible for building our business outside the consumer market.

Where have you studied?

MEng, Manufacturing Engineering, Cambridge University.

What programming languages do you speak?

C++ and a little bit of messing around with html and css.

James Withers

Software Engineer

What do you do?

I’m part of the Professional Services team and work with our clients.

Where have you studied?

Computer Science BSc Hons, University of Warwick; Neuroinformatics MSc, University of Edinburgh; Neuroinformatics PhD, University of Edinburgh.

Tell us a weird fact...

I contribute to genetics research at my wife’s lab at the Baylor College of Medicine, Texas.

Joe Freeman

Software Engineer

What do you do?

I’m a member of the SwiftKey server team – currently working on the personalization servers.

Where have you studied?

MEng computing, Imperial College.

What's your proudest achievement?

By default, the personalization server.

Joe Osborne

Software Engineer

What do you do?

I work on the core prediction technology that sits behind our SwiftKey products.

Where have you studied?

MA Computer Science, Cambridge University.

What's your proudest achievement?

SmartSpace – it understands what you’re writing even if you miss the space bar.

Juha Iso-Sipilä

Complex Languages engineer

What do you do?

I lead the Complex Languages team, ensuring SwiftKey has equally high performance throughout the range of supported languages.

Where have you studied?

I studied at Tampere University of Technology in Finland. My major was Digital Signal Processing and minor Biomedical Engineering.

Where have you worked before?

At Nokia for almost 18 years, developing speech recognition and text input technologies.

 

Julien Baley

Natural Language Processing Engineer

What do you do?

I work as part of the Languages team.

Where have you studied?

MSc Speech and Language Processing, University of Edinburgh; MSc Computer Engineering, University of Technologie of Compiègne, France.

What programming languages do you speak?

A lot of Python for NLP. Then some C, C++ and a few others.

Kenneth Lam

Software Engineer for Professional Services

What do you do?

I am an engineer with the Professional Services team.

Where have you studied?

BSc Computer Engineering, University of Manchester; MSc Advanced Computer Science, University of Manchester.

Tell us a weird fact...

I like rock bands like Green Day and Linkin Park and comedy shows like Big Bang Theory and Family Guy.

Lauren Heney

HR Assistant

What do you do?

HR Assistant – involved in day to day general Human Resources remit.

 

Where have you studied?

I have a few different HR qualifications, including a Masters in HR from Dublin Business School, accredited by John Moore’s University.

 

Where have you worked before?

A pharmaceutical research company called Nucleus Global.

 

Leilei Shi

Language Engineer

What do you do?

I am responsible for language models and utilities for Asian languages, such as Chinese, Vietnamese and Thai.

Where have you studied?

PhD in Computer Science, University of Kent; MSc in Software Engineering, University of York; BSc in Computer Science, Heilongjiang University, China.

What programming languages do you speak?

C++, Java, C#, VB.

Marek Rei

Language Research Engineer

What do you do?

I am research engineer with the SwiftKey languages team.

Where have you studied?

Informatics BSc in Tallinn University of Technology; MPhil in Computer Speech, Text and Internet Technology, in University of Cambridge; Just finished a PhD in Cambridge.

What's the best thing about working at SwiftKey?

I’ve only just started – ask me again soon!

Marianne Sisto

Professional Services Software Engineer

What do you do?

I work with our clients to help them integrate and customize the SwiftKey products.

Where have you studied?

MSc Robotics and Embedded Systems, University of Essex and BSc Computing Science, University of East Anglia / Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.

What's the best thing about working at SwiftKey?

Young and dynamic environment.

Martin Bella

Software Engineer

What do you do?

I work on various parts which make SwiftKey tick, amongst other projects.

Where have you studied?

BSc in Computer Science at the University of Edinburgh.

Tell us a weird fact...

The UK is the third country that I’ve lived in.

Matthew Willson

Software Engineer

What do you do?

I’m part of the development team.

Where have you studied?

Masters, Mathematics, University of Oxford. After a stint in the software industry I went back to school to get an MSc in Computational Statistics and Machine Learning.

What's the best thing about working at SwiftKey?

The sushi which I saw you guys eating when I interviewed? Maybe ask me once I’ve been here more than a few weeks

Michael Bell

Software Engineer

What do you do?

I work on SwiftKey.

Where have you studied?

Computer Science at the University of Oxford.

Where have you worked before?

Working on video conferencing products at Cisco. Before that, Deutsche Bank and Bloomberg.

Michele Sama

Test Architect

What do you do?

I am a software engineer and the company’s test architect.

Where have you studied?

PhD in software validation and verification from University College London. MA and BA in computer engineering from the University of Bologna, Italy.

What's your proudest achievement?

JInjector – an instrumentation tool for Java mobile applications.

Min Park

Office and Ops Manager

What do you do?

I make sure everything runs smoothly in the office.

Where have you studied?

I studied Politics at Smith, MA, USA and I read philosophy at Lucy Cavendish college, University of Cambridge.

Where have you worked before?

I was working at a very techy big data company based in London. I also briefly worked in Geneva at the International Labour Organisation.  

Nick Sutherland

Product Manager

What do you do?

I work with Brandon Mensinga on product management.

Where have you studied?

Engineering at Cambridge University many years ago followed more recently by an Open University MBA

What's your proudest achievement?

I was product manager for a British TV Set Top Box design sold into Shanghai Telecom in competition with local Chinese vendors.

Nikiforos Karamanis

User Experience Lead

What do you do?

I work together with our developers to design, prototype and evaluate new features. I also run user studies and analyse user feedback to improve our users’ experience.

Where have you studied?

MA in Linguistics, University of Athens. MSc in Speech and Language Processing, University of Edinburgh, PhD in Natural Language Processing, University of Edinburgh.

What programming languages do you speak?

Command line Linux and Perl for scripting.

Patrick Monteith

Software Engineer

What do you do?

I’m a software engineer working on SwiftKey.

Where have you studied?

MEng Information Systems Engineering, Imperial College London.

Where have you worked before?

Studying at Imperial College, London.

Precious Hamilton-Brown

Marketing Coordinator

What do you do?

As Marketing Coordinator, my role involves planning for awards, conferences and company events.

Where have you studied?

BSc Sociology at the London School of Economics (LSE).

What programming languages do you speak?

None.

Páidí Creed

Software Engineer

What do you do?

I work on the SwiftKey SDK.

Where have you studied?

BSc in Computer Science at University College, Cork; PhD in Computer Science, University of Edinburgh.

Tell us a weird fact...

I’m pretty sure I’m the only Paidi Creed in the world or, at least, I’m the only one who shows up on Google!

Richard Tunnicliffe

SwiftKey Technical Lead

What do you do?

I direct the technical design and implementation of the SwiftKey Android app.

Where have you studied?

MA/MSci Natural Sciences, Girton College, Cambridge; MSc Computation, Wadham College, Oxford.

What languages do you speak?

None, unless a smattering of school French counts.

Ruth Barnett

Head of Communications

What do you do?

I am responsible for how we communicate to the outside world – our media coverage, events, web presence, social media and comms strategy.

Where have you studied?

Social and Political Sciences, University of Cambridge; Post-graduate diploma in Newspaper Journalism, City University, London.

What's your proudest achievement?

At SwiftKey, working to put the people behind the technology at the heart of the story we tell. As a journalist, reporting live from Downing Street.

Sarah Reynolds

Customer Support

What do you do?

I deal with customer queries and also help with marketing and general office admin/errands.

Where have you studied?

BA, Study of Religions at SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies).

What's your proudest achievement?

Handling the increasing number of customer questions as our user base grows.

Sarah Rowley

B2B Marketing Executive

What do you do?

I work on B2B and enterprise marketing, for example for SwiftKey Healthcare.

Where have you studied?

French and Classics at Oxford University.

 

What programming languages do you speak?

None.

Sebastian Spiegler

Data team lead

What do you do?

I am leading a small team of data and software engineers. We are looking into large scale data processing and analysis using novel techniques like cloud computing and Hadoop.

Where have you studied?

PhD in machine learning and natural language processing, University of Bristol. Degree  in business informatics and information management, Technische Universität Ilmenau, Germany, then information systems and computer science, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil.

What's the best thing about working at SwiftKey?

The speed of innovation, the number of bright people, the table tennis matches, the Sushi team lunches.

Shaobo Hou

Software Engineer

What do you do?

I am a software engineer in the SwiftKey SDK team.

Where have you studied?

PhD, Computer Science at the University of Manchester.

What programming languages do you speak?

Matlab, C++, Java, some Python.

Simon Ransome

Software Engineer

What do you do?

I look after UI issues, keyboard layouts, internationalization and general SwiftKey stuff.

Where have you studied?

BA Business Studies, University of Plymouth; currently studying BSc Physics at the Open University.

Where have you worked before?

UI Engineer for Taptu, a mobile search engine, and before that, Qualcomm in Cambridge and San Diego.

Simon Wood

Software Engineer

What do you do?

I am  SwiftKey Multi-Platform Team Leader.

Where have you studied?

Computer Science at North Staffs Poly.

What's the best thing about working at SwiftKey?

It’s too early to say right now.

Stephen Spencer

Software Developer

What do you do?

I’m a software developer in the SwiftKey SDK team.

Where have you studied?

Undergraduate in Maths at Warwick University and a Masters in Computing at Imperial College, London.

Where have you worked before?

I worked at the European Bioinformatics Institute as a software developer for a few years,
and before that as a researcher at a defence company called QinetiQ.

Tehmur Khan

Software Engineer

What do you do?

I am a SwiftKey client-side developer.

Where have you studied?

Computing – BEng at Imperial College London.

Tell us a weird fact...

I enjoy playing sports, especially football and tennis.

Thomas Hancock

Software Engineer

What do you do?

I work on the SwiftKey SDK team.

Where have you studied?

Mathematics at the University of Birmingham.

What languages do you speak?

None (excluding very fragmented Spanish which I hope to improve soon).

Thomas Nicholson

Software Engineer

What do you do?

I’m a software engineer working on the SwiftKey SDK.

Where have you studied?

BSc Computer Science, University of St Andrews.

What's the best thing about working at SwiftKey?

Intellectual challenges and geeky banter.

Thomas Pike

Language Team intern

What do you do?

I am currently an intern with the SwiftKey languages team.

Where have you studied?

I’ve recently applied for Uni and hope to get into one of the following – Bath (business administration), Oxford (economics and management) or Warwick (management).

Tell us a weird fact...

Between the ages of 15-17 I taught the drums.

Tom Dixon

Software Developer

What do you do?

I’m a software developer for SwiftKey the app.

Where have you studied?

Computer Science at the University of Sheffield.

Where have you worked before?

Ocado.

Wei Liu

Language Engineer

What do you do?

I work with the Languages team.

Where have you studied?

MSc Software Systems in Sheffield University, BEng in Computing from China.

What languages do you speak?

Chinese Mandarin and Cantonese.

Yoh Okuno

Software Engineer

What do you do?

I am a software engineer, mainly responsible for Japanese language processing.

Where have you studied?

Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning at Keio University, Tokyo.

What's the best thing about working at SwiftKey?

Talented, smart and diverse colleagues!

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