Founder
* Launched personalizable news aggregator* Raised investment* Negotiate acquisition offers, securing good returns for investors & common shareholdersTechnology:* Created machine learning to categorize, rank, and cluster articles that effectively leverages distant supervision for better accuracy with limited signals and training examples* Created distributed processing pipeline 90% cheaper to operate (by replicating to S3 for robustness instead of other computers so spot instances can be used)* Low-latency streaming mode propagates updates without waiting for disk/replication (while still robust to machine failure)* High-throughput batch mode to cheaply reprocess all data; can then rollover to streaming to get, and stay, caught up with updates* Created reactive web interface with client-side page generation* Managed feedback driven iterations, designing and implementing improvements
