Leading the development of the world's first, portable, mass-scale, mixed reality, "indoor imagination" platform, based on advancements in computer vision/deep AI perception algorithms and amazing UX, for a consumer application targeting hundreds of millions of consumers. Acquired by IKEA's retail arm in 2020, as part of a competitive acquisition, to run an advanced R&D lab, building and operating best-in-industry retail imagination experiences.

Led Groupon's global technology teams from 40 to ~1000 people, through IPO. Groupon was a pioneer of local e-commerce, the first mobile e-commerce gorilla, and for a few years, the fastest growing global business in world history.Built & led Groupon's web & mobile product dev & engineering teams, delivering engaging UX, A/B testing, personalization & targeting, scalable platform architecture, and service operations for web, mobile, and internal tools, across four geographies. Created a fast-paced, top-tier, technology organization, scaling the tech team from 40 to ~1000 people. Led team through myriad adventures including hockey stick business growth, Superbowl ads, Groupon's IPO, PCI & SOX compliance, and worldwide platform unification. Optimized the business through computational marketing technology, data mining/targeting, POS, real-time analytics and variant testing, flexible and scalable front-end interaction tier and global platform architecture.

Ludic Labs is the creator of Offer Foundry and Diddit.com --- innovative services to engage users and fans with the local businesses and experiences they care about, through gorgeous UX, social machinery, promotions, and relationship marketing. Raised top-tier angel & Series A financing. Acquired by Groupon in 2010 in competitive M&A transaction.

Studying the peculiar life of a venture capitalist.

Founding engineer/SVP/GM. Conceived and led Inktomi's global caching and video optimization business - which at one point processed 40% of the world's web traffic, leading to the largest IPO of 1998. Designed & built the first scalable, distributed full-text search database (pre-Google) to scale with the growth of the internet. Recruited & managed a best-in-industry R&D team, whose alumni have become principals at many influential companies.

Drove 3D visualization, performance optimization, scientific algorithms, high-speed networking, and systems software development, for SGI's record-setting graphical supercomputers. Led software research & development efforts, prototyping, analysis, and sales & marketing evangelism for eight figure deals for Supercomputing Systems Division.

Scientist in the Advanced Technology Group, working on performance modeling, graphics visualization and architecture for UNIX-based, pre-NeXT, Mac computers.

Worked for 4 years part-time at startup Mark of the Unicorn, while an MIT undergrad. Developed early window system GUI software and cross-platform APIs for pioneering desktop publishing and music composition/synthesis software. Developed for early Macintosh computers. Learned a love of startups. Used the money to buy a beat-up British convertible that I rebuilt frame up.