Senior Director Of Engineering
San Francisco, California, Us
Head of Product Engineering at Planet Labs, during Series C phase. Planet is a space tech startup that captures daily imagery from small satellites built in-house. Led a 60-person organization (grown from 10) to build the SaaS platform to deliver imagery to end users. Established technical leadership structure, which included Engineering Managers and TechLeads. Teams were distributed across San Francisco, Seattle, Austin, San Antonio, and other remote locations. Key Team Accomplishments:• Launched Planet Data Platform, a cloud-based SaaS platform that processes 7-10 terabytes of daily data into a catalog of over 6 petabytes of data.• Launched Planet Explorer, a web app that allows users to search and discover our image archives of daily imagery anywhere on the planet.• Launched Planet Stories, a web app that allows users to tell and share stories about our changing planet, using daily imagery from our archives.• Launched Developer Center, a hub for technical resources for developers.• Launched Beta of our new Analytics Compute Processing engine, which allows users to analyze and glean insights from our image archives.• Launched prototyping sandbox that demonstrates our platform capabilities, which the Product team has successfully used for live demos to prospective customers.