LABS
Aaron Dey
BUILDING · SINCE 2002

Aaron Dey

I build ideas into lasting outcomes.  My journey spans over twenty years building, launching and scaling products - across video, media, banking, education and consulting.

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The Journey

Local teams, global impact

● Customers○ Partners
  1. 01
    Mar 2024Present · Berlin, DE
    Senior Product Manager
    Zattoo
  2. 02
    Jun 2023Feb 2024 · Berlin, DE
    Product Consultant
    Zattoo
  3. 03
    Dec 2020May 2023 · Berlin, DE
    Product Owner/Manager
    Zattoo
  4. 04
    Jan 2020Nov 2020 · London, UK
    Product & Venture Development Advisor
    LEAN SONICS
  5. 05
    Nov 2014Jan 2020 · London, UK · Madrid & Barcelona, ES
    Director
    HANZO STUDIO
  6. 06
    Jan 2011Dec 2015 · London, UK
    Co-founder & CEO
    FrameBlast
  7. 07
    Nov 2010Oct 2014 · London, UK
    Co-founder & Partner
    Clearer
  8. 08
    Aug 2009Oct 2010 · London, UK
    Product Labs Lead
    BBC
  9. 09
    20062009 · Amsterdam, NL
    Product & Project Manager
    Joost Technologies
  10. 10
    20052006 · Copenhagen, DK
    Product Operations Manager
    Nordisk Film
  11. 11
    20022005 · DK
    Project Manager & Multimedia Developer
    KONCEPTAS / FREELANCE
LOGBOOK

11 stops · 2002 — Present

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The Numbers

1M+
USERS DELIGHTED
19+
B2B CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIPS GROWN
23+
PARTNERSHIPS FOSTERED
250k
APP LAUNCH DOWNLOADS (FRAMEBLAST)
20+
YEARS EXPERIENCE BUILDING PRODUCTS
2
PATENTS GRANTED (FRAMEBLAST: US, UK)
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The Collaborators

Their experience

Lars Mardfeldt
Head of Business Development — Zattoo Consumer

"I had the pleasure of working with Aaron on several projects. His expertise and technical knowledge, combined with his ability of communicating and collaborating in a very clear and structured way was always something I enjoyed a lot. He is a role model when it comes to ownership of products and building bridges to commercial stakeholders. All this with a positive 'let's try to make it possible' attitude which I highly appreciated."

Neill David Watson
Head of Content & Partnerships — Virgin Money

"Aaron held key responsibility for delivering a challenging new digital project aimed at 2.2 million future Virgin Money customers. His care, work ethic and attention to detail coupled with a true passion for customer experience was fundamental in management of the product's launch and success."

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The Fellow Travellers

   

Customers

19

Selected across engagements and industries

SkySaltWAOOHD+1&1CouchfunkMySportsVirgin MoneyStandard CharteredDeem FinanceZafinBulgariMeliáMapfreAssociated PressBBCBPUK ParliamentLEGO
 

Partners

23

Selected across products and ecosystems

DotscreenLogituitMedia DistilleryXroad MediaNPAWVW CARIADVIDAALGSamsung (DACH)ErretresSoulsightVirgin GalacticVirgin StartUpAmazonSony PicturesSamsung (UK)Samsung (USA)Amazon Web ServicesAVIDAdobeCinergyTV2 DanmarkMicrosoft
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The Outcomes 

Selected examples

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Awards & Recognition

2022

Connect! The Smart TV Award  — Special Prize of the Jury

MEDIENTAGE MÜNCHEN & German TV-Platform

First-time special prize awarded to the Zattoo Ukrainian TV Streaming Service — a free web player for Ukrainian and international news channels launched within days of the war in Ukraine.

2022

ADG Laus 2022  — Bronze

ADG-FAD · Corporate Identity, Medium & Large Companies

Bronze Laus awarded for the Deem Finance transformation into a 21st-century digital bank, encompassing brand strategy, corporate identity, and all digital applications.

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Lab explorations

Work in progress

Context

Climate change, falling river water levels, and population growth are reshaping how people share increasingly contested waterways. RIVERVIEW is a working, privacy-respecting computer vision prototype - fully local, end-to-end pipeline running of a €22.50 camera board - built to see that pressure clearly.

Approach

RIVERVIEW was built end-to-end through directed agentic development — firmware, detection, a privacy-preserving pipeline, a versioned API and MCP server, and a scheduled monitoring agent for quality validation and actionable insights. Every decision tested versus assumed, and proven cheaply - before anything expensive got built.

Learning

RIVERVIEW's hardest problems turned out to be video resolution limits and messy real-world data - the kind of constraint only a real deployment surfaces. The project is a working demonstration how agentic development scales like a team does. 

Custom Camera & Detection
ESP32-S3 BOARD, YOLOV8N ON COCO CLASSES, LLAVA 
Privacy-preserved insights
Monitor, Review, Track
Developer API & MCP
Versioned, key-authed, agent-accessible
Agentic improvements
SCHEDULED MONITORING, QUALITY VALIDATION, CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT