Mostly for banks and the public sector, where a bad release isn’t a bad week: it’s a regulator and a support queue. That’s where the carefulness comes from. Much of the recent work is under NDA, so what follows is what I’m allowed to describe.
I wanted to prove the way I work now holds up on something real: in the app stores, with actual users, and a server that isn’t allowed to lose the result of a match.
Build messaging that works instantly, keeps working with no signal, and meets public-sector security requirements, while bringing the in-house developers onto tools most of them hadn’t used.
Rebuild a banking app that enormous numbers of people use, without ever pausing the new features they were expecting, while pulling a team of specialists out of their separate corners.
Build each feature once and use it in the Belgian, Dutch and German apps, with three national teams who each had their own way of doing things.
Help define the next version of a payment system when paying by phone was still new, and mistakes in the security couldn’t be patched over later.