Desktop and portable clients
Windows applications for sending and receiving files, with transfer progress and notifications. Desktop integration included sending files from the system explorer.
03 / FILE SHARING & STARTUP EXPERIENCE
Shibozo.
From a useful idea
to a company and its users.
Shibozo was my startup for two years. I established a company and built a file-sharing product used by a few dozen people. It brought together client software, transfer infrastructure, and a public website around a simple task: getting files from one person to another.
EXPERIENCETwo years as a founder
REACHA few dozen users
PRODUCTFile sharing across client applications
THE IDEA
Make sharing files
feel straightforward.
01 — THE PRODUCT
One task.
A complete experience.
The product joined the user-facing file-sharing experience with the infrastructure needed to connect clients and manage transfers.
Mobile client work
A separate mobile codebase with file browsing, notifications, and transfer status models, alongside the desktop product.
Transfer infrastructure
Client, hub, and remoting code supported communication and file-transfer workflows. Cryptographic components covered encryption and key exchange.
A product beyond the client
A public website, account and plan pages, management tooling, and client update code formed part of the broader product.
02 — THE TOOLKIT
Clients and services.
Built together.
C# / .NET
Client applications, shared contracts, transfer services, and supporting tools.
Windows and mobile
Dedicated desktop, portable, and mobile projects with platform-specific responsibilities.
ASP.NET and SQL
Public website and management projects, with relational persistence code and SQL assets.
Communication and cryptography
Explicit client/server contracts, remoting, encryption, and key-exchange components.
03 — FOUNDER EXPERIENCE
Build the software.
Own the product.
Two years of product ownership
Shibozo was an established company and a product with users. My work connected engineering decisions to the experience people had when sharing files.
Think beyond a single application
The client experience depended on the transfer infrastructure, website, and update tooling. Building those pieces together meant considering the whole product.
MORE ENGINEERING WORK
Dedicated components