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.

• Key Themes:

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

• Line-managed teams of up to 12 Novoda engineers across client engagements over more than five years, including those assigned to Glovo.
• Ran a two-week developer-experience discovery as Glovo's mobile organisation prepared to grow from 8 to 80 engineers, interviewing teams and stakeholders to surface pain points and plan the next phase of growth, and championed the creation of a mobile platform team for its four core apps. Glovo already shipped weekly, at a heavy cost in engineering effort; the platform work moved releases from a manual process run from a single laptop to fully automated continuous deployment within 3–6 months, halving human touchpoints from eight to four and cutting weekly release effort from hours for team leads to minutes for any engineer, alongside observability, cloud builds and remote caching. Line-managed the Novoda engineers on the engagement.

  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.