I lead the Engineering organization at Attentive, including all product development, AI/ Machine Learning, Platform, IT/IS, Data Science, and BI

I led engineering at Nextdoor, the world's largest neighborhood platform. Nextdoor is the largest neighborhood network focusing on connecting neighbors, local business and public agencies.For over four years, I led the engineering organization through a significant expansion more than tripling the organization while creating a culture of rapid product development, constant learning and continuous delivery of value to our neighbors and local businesses.Led the creation of the Ads Engineering, Growth Engineering, Platform Vitality and the expansion of Engagement Engineering, and Infrastructure and Platform organizations. The outcome of these investments resulted in 3x Revenue and verified user growth.I've led the creation of the Engineering Leveling guides, setting clear expectations for career progression. I also established a vigorous Calibration process and a new recruiting strategy focused on hiring for the company's overall success rather than just specific areas. These efforts have helped us set a high bar for engineering talent while fostering a culture of flexibility and collective ownership. We took the company public in the NYSE in November 2021.

I was responsible for Software Engineering for the Online Presence, Commerce and Customer Experience division, building SaaS products that allow Small Businesses to create their online presence, get found online, and grow their businesses with e-commerce and using marketing, and social services.During my time at GoDaddy, revenue from our products grew from a few tens of millions to multiple hundreds of millions of dollars. Part of the executive team that took the company public on April 2015. I directly contributed to and led several acquisitions like Locu, MadMimi, Nodejitsu, MainStreetHub, Plasso, and Sellbrite.I drove the revamp of the tech stack migrating from 100% Microsoft-based tech to a modern Open Source tech stack. My teams were responsible for a wide range of products: E-mail Marketing, SEO tools, Bookkeeping and Invoicing, Listings, Social Media Presence, E-commerce, Payments, Appointments, Inventory Management, and Online Presence/Websites. These products were built with a diverse range of tech stacks including Python/Django, Ruby/Rails, and NodeJS/ReactJS/NoSQL.I led several initiatives to modernize the engineering tools, processes, and stack with a fully automated Continuous Integration and Deployment pipeline enabling fast product development velocity.Took an innovative approach on how to host millions of websites at scale with the new Page Serving Platform on top of Node.js and Cassandra that reduced our hosting costs by 10x and improved the performance of GoDaddy’s customer's websites by at least 4x when compared to traditional Apache hosting.Transformed the company culture enabling teams to become major contributors to GoDaddy's open-source initiatives, enabling the teams to open-source several components of our products and platforms.

In charge of Yahoo! Mail Client Engineering, Global User Settings, and Global User Profile with Teams based in the US and Latin America. I was in charge of all added value experiences on top of the core Yahoo Mail and Messenger functionality: Attachments, Monetization and Ads, Machine Learning in Message Categorization, Yahoo Messenger Web, Smart Folders, Photos App and Mail Search.Built a new modular architecture that allowed Yahoo Mail teams to move faster delivering features independently and reducing the deployment time from several days to a matter of minutes. Making it easier to push releases forward instead of rolling back. #continuousdeployment Integrated Yahoo Mail with Dropbox, users can easily upload files directly to Dropbox and attach any files to their cloud storage when composing their messages.Yahoo Profile, held the public identity of all Yahoo users. This is the place where the more than 700MM Yahoo users go to manage their data, connect their accounts with social networks, and change their account settings.

I was in charge of Engineering in the Identities Team at Yahoo!, leading the Yahoo Contacts, Global User Profile, and Web Yahoo! Messenger, serving more than 300 Million users. I helped drive the decision of "End of Life" several legacy or not well funded products, redirecting our teams to major and more focused initiatives.Evangelized faster development practices at Yahoo!, supported and trained more than 400 Yahoos on Lean engineering practices across multiple continents. This resulted in multiple teams reducing bureaucracy and moving faster, reducing idea to production from multiple months to weeks.

Zero to one: Lead a brand new product organization consisting of engineers, designers & product managers focusing on creating new products and solutions for Yahoo’s at Emerging Markets in Latin America, and South East Asia.Conceptualized and built a new light blogging product, called Meme. With a small team leveraging Yahoo’s infrastructure and tools, we developed Meme from idea to Production in less than 3 months and subsequently launched the product in 7 countries in Emerging Markets.Personally built the Meme iOS app and released it on all App Stores the product was available.I also was in charge of bringing Yahoo’s acclaimed Open Hack Days to Latin America. Expanding the Yahoo brand recognition with developers in the region.

I was in charge of all the streaming engineering for Globo’s Digital Consumer products, Reporting directly to the CEO.Built the team from scratch and scaled the team, integrating it with all media companies part of the Globo conglomerate enabling streaming media content for all Cable TV, Radio Stations and Public TV.Conceived and implemented new ways of integrating web and media applications with mobile solutions, acting as an internal technical advisor on all related topics.Research of new technologies and adapt them to the company strategic plan, adding value on top of the traditional media operations and programing. Built one of the first dedicated streaming media distribution networks in Latin America, way before Akamai started to expand in Latam. Delivering large scale of concurrent media content, live and on demand.

Managed the technical relationship with the major telecom and media company accounts in BrazilInterfaced with customers and partners, understanding their challenges and proposing solutionsSpeaking in public forums demonstrating Real’s technology. - Technical coordination and support of digital media projects in Brazil and South AmericaProjects worth of note- MTV Brazil: Partnership to produce live broadcasts and interactive services on top of MTV video content.- Embratel WebMedia Service: automated control system for large scale hosting and delivery services for live and on demand content- Helped to implement the first training partner of RealNetworks in Latin America

Responsibilities:- Oversight, design and development of all streaming media projects.- Support and pre-sales for RealNetworks suite of products- Write and present commercial proposals- Understanding clients needs and gathering requirements- Training of clients and developers.Projects worth of note- Planned and delivered several live Webcasts projects.- Designed and implemented Radio Totem (in Portuguese and Spanish), which was the first Brazilian Internet only radio streaming with synchronized advertising.