Our Team

Eight people in London building the workspace content creators actually want to use.

Oscar Ferguson

Oscar Ferguson

CEO & Co-Founder

Before Deaku, Oscar spent three years as a full-time YouTube creator covering technology and startup culture, reaching 80,000 subscribers. He previously built and sold a content analytics SaaS for mid-size media brands. He leads product strategy and commercial partnerships at Deaku, and has personally onboarded every beta user in the first cohort.

Marcus Webb

Marcus Webb

CTO & Co-Founder

Marcus joined Oscar after four years as a senior engineer at Monzo, where he led the infrastructure team through a period of 6x transaction volume growth. He architected Deaku's multi-channel publish queue and inference API layer. He has a Computer Science degree from UCL and holds two patents in distributed systems design.

Aisha Okafor

Aisha Okafor

Head of ML

Aisha leads the machine learning team responsible for the brief engine and tone analysis models. She holds a PhD in computational linguistics from the University of Edinburgh and previously spent two years at DeepMind working on long-form text generation. She keeps the AI outputs from sounding like every other AI tool on the market.

Want to join the team?

We are a team of eight and growing. We are looking for a Senior Full-Stack Engineer, a Product Designer, and a Head of Creator Partnerships. All roles are London-based with a hybrid working arrangement.

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