John Espinosa Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, Ca, Us

I manage programs across Yelp’s ad syndication teams, helping local businesses by running Yelp ads for them all over the web. I also work on Generative AI programs spanning across all of Yelp.

San Bruno, Ca, Us

YouTube Gaming- Drove sprints for a team of 30 engineers by leveraging work tracking systems (buganizer) and distilling in an easy to digest status sheet - Facilitated the OKR planning across 40 FTEs across Engineering, UXD, UXR, and Product Managers- Launched Clips on YouTube (https://youtu.be/A63imEmP_-I) by gathering requirements from the Trust and Safety and Creator Analytics teams and surfacing risks discovered during launch, resulting in millions of Clips- Lead teams across Google Play, YouTube Gaming, YouTube Creator Support, and Legal to pilot a program allowing creators to offer in-game purchases under their livestream, creating a new revenue stream for creators by writing creator onboarding documentation, writing our creator communication strategy, and tracking cross-team progress

San Francisco, California, Us

Drove Slack’s effort to scale our product to support the traffic load of onboarding our largest client by creating dashboards and artifacts that aligned engineering work across 12 engineering teams; these reports were used by the VP of infrastructure in status updates to the CTOManaged browser version and desktop app version deprecations that mitigated the root cause of 2 incidents and addressed an escalation from Slack’s 2nd largest clientManaged the desktop app release process by aligning 10 engineers and QA engineers to updatemillions of machines and support product launches like internationalization

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Drove security and privacy initiatives across Yelp.• Developed Yelp’s expectations of its newly created TPM role with engineering leadership• Instituted Yelp’s PCI (credit card regulations) compliance process by forming a team of 8 engineers to administrate the credit card system and implementing our new PCI controls across teams in sales, engineering, and IT which allowed Yelp to continue accepting credit card payments• Designed and led Yelp’s evaluation of a $100k+ per year bot detection vendor product by drivingwork across 3 engineering teams and presenting the findings to Yelp’s security leadership

Redmond, Washington, Us

Acted as SCRUM master for a team of 7 engineers, groomed the team’s backlog with Microsoft’s work tracking product ADO, and communicated plans to leadership Provided customer support for 30+ engineers by resolving or mitigating remote debugging issuesConducted user studies and gathered data to support study insights with SQL and SplunkLed the design and execution of a 3 engineering team project that created a new workflow for engineers to make Windows user feedback actionable; the project saved 350+ engineers 3 days of work per use of the tool, increased engineer sentiment by 160%, and engagement by 56%Aligned 4 engineering teams on a common set of KPI’s assessing the health of the remote debugging pipeline, resulting in 5 bugs that were hot fixed before Windows shipped, driving debugging reliability from 75% to 98%Iterated on an alternative remote debugging workflow that complied with Microsoft’s evolving privacy requirements, saving 70% of engineers hours to days of additional overhead compliance work and preventing a fine of 4% of global revenueCo-founded the Early In Career (EIC) program in my organization, serving 30+ EIC employees

Redmond, Washington, Us

Champaign, Il, Us

Implemented a social network for remembering the past using Python, SQL, Flask, and BootstrapConducted a study with 6 participants to compare Taunch’s and Facebook’s user experienceJoined a graduate student's human-computer interaction project, in which we experiment with conversation visualizations

Champaign, Il, Us

Taught Assistant for Computer ArchitectureHeld office hoursLed lab sections of 30+ students

Champaign, Il, Us

Led a total of four CS 125 lab sections of 30 students by improving and assessing their java skills, specifically in the areas of object oriented programming and recursion

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Founded an event called Tell[in] which had interns tell real stories from their lives that was featured on LinkedIn's engineering blogImplemented all error and success messages in the recommendations flow of LinkedInDesigned and implemented a non-blocking flow of creating recommendation requests using Play, Java, JDBC, and PDSC schemas

New York, Ny, Us

Re-designed and re-implemented the frontend and backend of the RPE function within the Bloomberg Terminal, which calculates financing rates for many of Bloomberg's largest clients every day, using JavaScript and C++Developed an XML upload tool to eliminate manual synchronization between clients' Excel spreadsheets and RPE using C++Collaborated with Bloomberg's business team to gain key insights into clients' problems, informing future design decisions

Bloomington, Illinois, Us

Won the State Farm HackDay Competition, which had 42 teams competing Developed frontend for a student's financial burden calculator, with a team of four systems interns and a graphic designer, using Javascript, C#, jQuery, HTML5, .NET, and CSS3 Solved nuanced actuarial problems, with no actuarial background, by learning on the jobDeveloped an actuarial system that aggregated disparate sources of data into an easy-to-understand format, using C#

B.S., Computer Science

High School