Simon Narai
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Capitalising on my passion for creating elegant and intuitive user experiences, I honed these skills into an 18+ year career in creating outstanding solutions across native app, web, game, virtual and augmented reality. Over these years, I have partnered with great companies, and I have worked on dozens of fantastic projects, including a few award-winners and world-firsts.

My focus remains firmly on iOS as my development platform of choice. I’m looking to challenge myself to continue growing my development, design and leadership skills, preferably while working on products which help to better the world.

I am confident I make a positive, purposeful impact on products I work on, and I look forward to contributing meaningfully to a passionate team.

Experience

Zenso

Managing Partner + Chief Experience Officer · 2020 — Now

Zenso leverages a decades long legacy of making innovative and award-winning products and experiences, to create apps which empower people to be their best and allow professionals to maximise their creativity and expression. Zenso has shipped DMeter for Mac and Windows and Favourite Faces for iOS, develops the Polymath app and software for Flux Keyboard, and creates game and media projects including the Voices tabletop roleplaying game.

Find out more at zenso.group.

Commonwealth Bank

Senior iOS Engineer + Squad Tech Lead · 2022 – Now

The Commonwealth Bank is Australia’s biggest bank, and its iOS app serves millions of customers every day. Within the app, CommBank Yello delivers the bank’s loyalty and benefits program, and Onboarding + Identity Document Verification welcomes new customers while verifying who they are, securely.

Monarc Media Labs

Chief Experience Officer · 2018 — 2021

Monarc Media Labs’ multi-award winning team created Sotto Voce, an acoustic health monitoring system that allows musicians to perform with confidence, knowing risks to hearing damage are understood and managed.

Find out more at monarc.media.

Transmedia Entertainment

Managing Partner + Chief Experience Officer · 2016 — 2020

UX+UI Designer + Software Engineer · 2012 — 2014

Transmedia specialised in creating award-winning immersive digital productions, across virtual and augmented reality, mobile app, traditional film, and cutting edge research and development. Transmedia went on to become Zenso.

Cobalt Coded

Founder + Managing Director · 2014 — 2016

Cobalt Coded was an award-winning digital consultancy which created powerful yet elegant apps for public companies, international governments and universities. Cobalt developed over a dozen iOS apps, BLE solutions + websites, as well as consulting on business + brand development. Cobalt merged with Transmedia Entertainment in 2016.

Smart AV

UX+UI Designer + Software Engineer · 2010 — 2012

Web Designer · 2008 — 2010

Smart AV was an award-winning, Sydney-based company who designed and manufactured patented control surfaces for digital audio and video workstations.

Awards

Good Design Gold Award — Medical Category

Trophon 2 · Working with Nanosonics + Ingenuity Design · 2019

Good Design Award — Medical Category

Betacheck C50 · Working with National Diagnostic Products + Ingenuity Design · 2019

Good Design Award — Commercial Category

Keyhound · Working with Lock-It Systems + Ingenuity Design · 2019

Good Design Gold Award — Industrial Category

Vayeron Smart-Idler · Working with Vayeron + Ingenuity Design · 2018

UDIA NSW Excellence in Marketing Award — Urban Development

Coronation · Working with NEST:VR + Transmedia Entertainment · 2017

World Mail Award — Retail Customer Access Category

POPStation System · Working with Singapore Post + Ingenuity Design · 2015

Resolution Awards — Desk Controller Category

Tango 2 · Working with Smart AV · 2012

Education

Academy of Interactive Entertainment

Vocational Graduate Certificate of Entrepreneurship · 2012

Advanced Diploma Professional Game Development — Specialising in Software Development, Game Programming and Game Design · 2010 — 2011

Skills

Development

  • Rapid Prototyping through to full end-to-end Design + Development of Apps, Web, VR, AR.
  • iOS + Mac App Design + Development (Swift, Obj-C; Xcode; SwiftUI, UIKit, AppKit, WatchKit).
  • Cross-Platform App Design + Development (Dart, .NET C#; Flutter, Avalonia).
  • Game, VR + AR Design + Development (C#, C++; Unity).
  • Web Design + Development (HTML, CSS; JavaScript, TypeScript; Astro, WordPress).
  • Agentic AI Workflows: fluent across Claude, ChatGPT and locally hosted models, from daily development to automated pipelines.
  • Source Control + Bug Tracking (Git, GitHub, GitKraken, Beyond Compare).
  • Operating Systems: iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, visionOS; Windows, Android, Linux.

Leadership

  • Company + Team Leadership, Recruitment + Management.
  • Product Ownership + Management; Product Specification + Design.
  • R&D Project Management, Reporting + Documentation.
  • Executive Reporting, Presentation + Communication.
  • Agile: Atlassian Jira, Microsoft Planner; GitKraken, Linear.
  • Documents: Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint; Apple Pages, Numbers, Keynote.

Design

  • UX, UI, IA Design.
  • User + Market Research.
  • Novel Interaction Design.
  • Brand + Copy.
  • Graphics: Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign; Affinity Designer, Photo, Publisher.
  • Video: Apple Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere Pro.
  • Audio: Apple Logic Pro, Adobe Audition, Ableton Live, Native Instruments Komplete.

Interests

Mobile Photography, Creative Writing, Game Design, Strength Training, Motorbike Riding, Cooking and Eating Japanese Food, Watching WWDC’s at 2am.

References

Duncan Ross · Director + CEO at Monarc Media Labs
Chris Alfred · Principle Engineering Consultant at Monarc Media Labs

Contact details available upon request.