About
Ian Kenyon
Based in Brighton. Fifteen years in product, much of it in energy, IoT, and built environment, industries where a bad call doesn't just miss a KPI, it affects how people heat their homes or how much a grid operator makes in a trading day. It changes how you think about problems.
The projects on this site are early stage. The experience behind them isn't. Lampara.dev is where I build the ideas that have been sitting in my head for years, using tools that make it possible to move fast without a team. It sits alongside fifteen years of shipping at scale, in regulated industries, with real commercial consequences.
The work
The common thread
Understand the real problem, not the stated one. Build across the organisation and ship in volume solving something customers actually care about.
That sounds simple. In practice it means spending time on site before writing a requirements document, running trading desks through a regulatory process before the product is finished, and staging a GTM to learn from real usage before committing to a full rollout.
Limejump
Led the product that enabled frequency response trading at grid scale. Six months ahead of schedule. Over £300k a week of revenue running through it, with board sign-off including Shell.
Paxton
Took a next-generation access control platform from zero to £2m ARR. That started with two weeks observing installers on site before touching a requirements document.
SNRG
Rebuilt the customer app around meter-level data and a deep understanding of the customers that used it. Staged the GTM to solve problems quickly and enhance the solution over time. Real usage before a full rollout.
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Always curious
Between roles I'm always curious, so I'm now trying those projects for real. Not to fill time, to stay sharp and to find out if ideas that have been sitting in my head for years are actually worth something.
Yourewild started as a competition entry in 2019. I came second. I sat on it for five years and now I'm actually building it. Slipstream came from running alone and wanting something to race against.
Both are on lampara.dev, documented so you can see the thought process in whatever state they're in. The decisions, the dead ends, what gets killed and why.
Outside work
Brighton since 2015
Not planning to leave. Two teenagers, a partner who teaches yoga, a network of good people.
Music
DJing for over twenty years. Mostly house and trip hop. Active on Mixcloud.
Movement
Still running. Occasionally swimming. The South Downs are right there.
Growing things
A greenhouse that takes more attention than it should. Always growing something.
Brighton
Genuinely a great place to be. The sea helps.