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Reinventing the book

Writing a book about the early days of Venmo and how we grew the user base.

San Francisco, California, US

I worked with leadership to define a plan to transform our product from a customer service insights consulting business into an employee analytics platform, akin to product analytics tools. I re-architected our data models, re-designed our customer experience, and led a team that built out a point and click query interface, allowing customers to interact.

San Francisco, California, US

After landing our first big customer, Fin raised money, grew the engineering team, and I was asked to manage a team of engineers. I managed 5 engineers and I helped plan our product roadmap and projects.

San Francisco, California, US

When Fin pivoted to sell the analytics and recording tools we had built to optimize our assistants, we needed to build the new product before we could grow it. So I went back to doing product engineering, designing and building our product. Using material ui, react, graphql, python, and postgres, I helped build our rules engines, video player, video clip.

San Francisco, California, US

I joined Fin when we had a few hundred users and three engineers. I built a waitlist, invite, email, and content marketing system that allowed us to let in new users when we had capacity. I then built and optimized signup and onboarding flows. I eventually led a team of 4 engineers and a data scientist. Our efforts often produced material growth in usage.

Along with two other Venmo engineers, I founded a company and raised a seed round to productize our growth strategies for any app developer. I designed the product and did our marketing and outbound sales. We got around 150 apps to implement our drop-in invite page for iOS apps. It worked great for some apps, but not enough, and we pivoted and built an app.

New York, NY, US

When we believed Venmo was ready to grow, I was put in charge of growth and given a goal of growing our active user base from 5,000 to 100,000. I implemented Mixpanel to understand user behavior and then either coded or managed the changes we made to optimize our signup flow, activation flows, and referral program. I led a team of 2 engineers, a PM, and an.

New York, NY, US

I was user number 11 on Venmo and I taught myself to code so that the founders would hire me. I joined when we had a few thousand users and helped design and build a lot of the core product, including the bank verification and payment flows, fraud prevention, and social integrations. I also did our customer support for over a year.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US

Wire-framed the redesign of TicketLeap's web ticketing platform.Before working on product, I built out an extensive Salesforce integration. I brought event and ticket information into Salesforce to allow account managers to intelligently communicate with their customers.

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