TrueNorth helps owner-operator carriers in freight logistics make better decisions on where and what to haul, as well as to understand their business better through insights and analytics. Reporting to the CEO, I focused on scaling the team with newly acquired B round funding, along with improving engineering execution and innovation.Key successes:• Collaborated with the Executive team to align the technical roadmap and strategy through business pivots and turbulent market dynamics.• Increase headcount 3X to 30+ with a 90% offer acceptance rate. • Reorganized into feature and enabling teams, transitioned to 90% commitment delivery by building a culture of accountability.• Mentored and coached 3 senior engineers into engineering managers.Technologies: TypeScript, React, React Native, Python, GCP, Postgresql, Redis, Docker, Terraform

Behavox is an AI/ML platform for financial regulatory communications surveillance, protecting companies in the financial sector from illegal and malicious activities. I led the new products division for the company to ideate, build and expand the product line by launching 3 new products.Key successes:• Conceptualization and rapid prototyping for Archiving, Customer Dynamics, Voice and Data labs products.• Partnered with HR to define and implement hiring sprints for accelerating hiring while standardizing assessment across engineering, decreased duration from candidate sourcing to extending an offer to 4 wks.• Updated engineering-wide SDLC processes to promote standardization, collaboration and transparency for an organization of 100+ engineers.

Led the API & platform engineering for a comparative rater project, a greenfield initiative pivotal in the $1B acquisition of Ameriprise Auto & Home by American Family.Key successes:• Platform lead technical architect, leading architects, technical PMs, and 5 EMs / scrum teams.• Coordinated project delivery across multiple internal teams along with integrations across 4 operating companies.• Developed a 2 year roadmap as part of the senior leadership team, collaborated with peers in data analytics, devops, QA and product engineering to deliver a $20 M project on-time and under budget.• Grew the organization from 20 to 55+ engineers. Provided mentorship to new tech leads and engineering managers.Technologies: Java, JavaScript, Node, AWS, DynamoDB, Aurora, Lambda, S3, Kinesis, Elastic Cache, Docker, Terraform

Reporting to the CEO, I led a 30+ engineering, meteorological / data science, data platform, QA and DevOps/SRE for terabyte-scale data ingestion, processing and real-time forecasting. During my tenure Climacell raised a $50M B-round, and opened offices in Tel Aviv, Israel and Denver, CO. Key successes:• Delivered inaugural mobile app (iOS & Android); Expanded product and platform to support a new energy vertical; Release 2 major API versions.• Increased API serving capacity by 10X; increased ingestion, processing and serving infrastructure by 3X (supporting 40 new countries).• Defined and matured engineering-wide processes: career/leveling frameworks; planning/project succession (from science-based ideation through viability to production); execution & delivery; on-call & reliability.• Managed technical partnership with FAANG client integrating with our service, including project management, custom development and delivery.Technologies: Python, Javascript, Node, Angular 2, Redis, PostgreSQL, Google Cloud Platform, Ansible, Docker, Terraform.Transferred data and API engineering functions offshore to the Tel Aviv office in 2019.

I was brought in by the CTO to help level-up the engineering organization, with architectural guidance and process improvement.Key successes:• Defined enterprise-wide processes for communicating architectural decisions and sharing designs for peer review. • Re-architected a monolith application into a cloud-first, microservice-based API. Mentored engineers on AWS / cloud technologies, improved engineering practices and hygiene.

nToggle is an ad-tech infrastructure company that helps demand side partners (DSPs) scale their businesses and increase revenue while reducing capital and operational expenditure, by filtering and shaping over 2M QPS (queries/sec) of bid request traffic with less than 20ms mean latency for customers in real-time.Key successes:• Delivered management console, consisting of an API, web application and POC machine learning algorithm component for the configuration, forecasting and analytics of nToggle routers.• Standardized and automated customer onboarding and support processes leading to a 50% decrease in onboarding time; added 5 new supply sources and 15 customers (demand partners).• Defined and matured quarterly planning and sprint / SDLC planning and tooling.Built a culture of observability and operational support through an engineering on-call support rotation.Technologies: Scala, Akka, Play Framework, PostgreSQL, Elastic Search, Redis, Javascript, Node, ReactJS, Redux, Apache Spark, Cassandra, Ansible, DockernToggle was aquired by Rubicon.

Reporting to the CEO as Head of Engineering, Shareaholic provides website publisher tools, supporting over 300k publishers resulting in 650M+ unique users and 2.5B+ API events per month. During my tenure, Shareaholic obtained profitability.Key successes:• Built out an NLP/ML data pipeline; centralized content management service; and content-based recommendations engine.• Transitioned a multi-tenant SaaS architecture from a monolith to a service-based architecture; introduced automated infrastructure provisioning and deployment.• Migrated development languages to realize an 80% infrastructure costs savings while increasing operational capacity 5X.Technologies: Ruby, Rails, Javascript, Backbone, Java, RxJava, Vert.x, Redis, PostgreSQL, Mongo, Apache Storm / Trident, AWS, Chef.

Startwire.com is a VC-backed job organizing and application website for job seekers.Technologies: Ruby, Rails, Javascript, Backbone, PostgreSQL, AWS, Chef.

Novell Vibe was Novell's next generation SaaS enterprise-ready social networking and collaboration product: a high availability and real-time distributed event processing system, with customization of SOLR for real-time searching, and Google Wave Federation interoperability.