Laurie Ainley
Product Director at DeepAR.ai (a Zalando Group Company)
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolLaurie Ainley is a product director and two-time founder with 14 years of experience building AI-enabled and spatial computing products that bridge creative design and scalable commerce. She has led end-to-end product strategy and hands-on engineering from early prototypes to commercial platforms—most recently directing Zalando’s ShopAR 3D commerce platform and previously founding Poplar Studio and Scaper to transform AR and real-time 3D video advertising. Laurie combines technical depth (coding, real-time rendering, LLM integrations) with commercial rigor—raising funding, executing an acquisition, landing major global brands, and closing six-figure deals. She has a proven track record of scaling teams and operations under pressure, turning short runways into sustainable businesses and shipping complex SaaS and media products that reach millions. Based in the UK, she brings an unusual mix of product leadership, founder grit, and creative-technical fluency that keeps her at the cutting edge of immersive retail and adtech.
14 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer and Business Studies, BSc Computer and Business Studies at University of Warwick
Github Skills (2)
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
laurieainley/tingle
Jul 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:4 PRs, 69 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
cwaring/velodrone
Dec 2011 - Dec 2011
Contributions:6 commits in 1 day
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