Benjamin
Augustin

ATG Entertainment — 71 venues across the UK, US, and Continental Europe, including 10 West End and 7 Broadway theatres; operator of atgtickets.com, serving 18M+ theatre-ticket buyers a year.

• Hired and grew ATG's initial mobile engineering team to 20 engineers, in a business with no prior mobile engineering capability, then took the ATG Tickets app from zero to a market-ready, commercially active product within a single financial year. Architected a monorepo with dual build pipelines sharing six domain components across iOS and Android — a forward-looking design intended to let a second app reuse the platform without a separate mobile codebase.
• Took the app to #1 in the Events category on both the Google Play Store and Apple App Store, sustaining a 4.8–4.9 star rating — establishing a new direct-to-consumer revenue channel and driving tens of thousands of weekly active users across the UK and US.
• Led the technical merge of two mobile engineering organisations into a single team as part of a company-wide restructure — aligning codebases, ownership, and delivery processes across what had been two separate mobile engineering functions serving different parts of the business.
• Owned the platform's core native-vs-WebView architecture question end to end — supported a pragmatic hybrid-native bridge as a transitional step toward a full-native target, then led the resolution to deliver on that target a year later, aligning engineering, product, and C-suite stakeholders behind a multi-million-pound annualised roadmap initiative.
• Authored the mobile domain's formal API change-management framework that gates every backend schema change reaching the apps — introducing engineering discipline and API governance across the mobile function, now adopted org-wide.
• Built a mobile platform investment programme spanning CI/CD reliability, toolchain standardisation, design-system consolidation, and adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices, including automated context tooling and spec-driven workflows.

• Key Themes:

  Mobile Platform Strategy • Native Migration • 0→1 Delivery • Executive Stakeholder Alignment • Team Building & Hiring • Engineering Governance • Developer Experience • AI-Assisted Engineering

• Scaled the mobile engineering team from 8 to 80 engineers, building mobile platform support and enabling efficient workflows: automated releases, observability platforms, cloud builds, remote caching, and more.

  Key Themes:

  Scaling Mobile Teams • Mobile-Centred DevOps • Continuous Deployment • Mobile Platform Teams

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• Ran a 6-week consultancy engagement: stakeholder interviews, code reviews, and process analysis, developing strategies to improve the volume and quality of mobile team output.
• Delivered a 2-week consultancy to identify the best cross-platform mobile technology for their context, improving operational efficiency through structured interviews and solution analysis.

• Led the Android development team for the greenfield relaunch of The Times Digital Experience, delivering a significant increase in articles read per visit, unique visitors, and Net Promoter Score.

  Key Themes:

  Frontend Android engineering • Product Strategy • Product Design • Agile Delivery

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• Developed Android and Chromecast experiences with native video playback, DRM support, and seamless content-ad transitions.

• Worked on the Hudl Tablet shopping experience, Hudl 2 AOSP modifications, and child-safe application development; conducted R&D on a mobile till/payment system using the Hudl 2 tablet and a Bluetooth card reader.

  Key Themes:

  Product Discovery • Frontend Engineering • Agile Delivery • Product Design

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• Built movie-streaming application experiences across mobile, tablet, and TV.