In 2008, I joined the software engineering team at Texperts, the first company to apply a microwork platform to answering questions via SMS. Later that year, we were acquired by the Knowledge Generation Bureau.

As a part-time developer (I was also leading the World University Project during this period), I took on a wide range of technical projects:

• Performance testing and instrumentation
• Requirements gathering and designs for a social research collaboration system
• An integrated portal system for our component applications
• A multiroom chat UI
• Internationalisation and localisation
• UI concepts (being reviewed for patent applications last time I checked)
• A framework for Javascript I18n
• Our Super Bowl Ad (2010)

I also served as our liaison with academics on some of our long-term research projects.