Swift route to success

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Swift route to success

23 September 2015
Submitted by seladmin on 23 September 2015


The latest edition of Selwyn magazine includes the story of Jon Reynolds (pictured), who started as a student at Selwyn in 2004, and his role in one of the leading technology start-ups in Europe. Along with Joe Braidwood (also SE 2004), he developed SwiftKey – the app that helps your smartphone keyboard to become more intuitive and intelligent. SwiftKey is now available on an estimated half a billion phones worldwide, and the company has 150 employees in London, San Francisco, Seoul, Hong Kong and New Delhi. Other Selwynites from the 2004 year group have played a major role, including Joe Osborne, Chris Carr and Alex Nixon.



To read more about SwiftKey, including how it has supported Professor Stephen Hawking’s speech technology, have a look at our newsletter online at http://www.selwynalumni.com/publications.



Jon Reynolds-510x



 


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