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San Francisco, CA, US

San Francisco, California, US

Defining Figma's next generation product infrastructure

Early applied research team, making this happen:https://www.theverge.com/22588022/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-ceo-metaverse-interview

I joined Facebook to define, validate and launch Facebook’s first messaging app for kids: Messenger Kids, now the #1 app for kids communication in the US, and in the top 10 of iOS social apps overall. From founding engineering manager, I ultimately helped grow Messenger Kids to 50 engineers, supporting managers and helping some engineers grow to be.

New York, US

Hired pioneered a candidate-first hiring marketplace for tech recruiting. I supported Hired’s entire engineering organization (45 eng total), from product experiences to internal tooling to support our sales and marketing teams. I also helped bridge between our product and backend teams, enabling customers to have high quality candidate recommendations and.

New York, US

I led the 23-person product engineering team. During this time, I created Hired’s internal tools team, allowing sales and marketing teams to collaborate on Salesforce, using on-platform signals to prioritize sales engagement and retargeting. I also created and recruited the mobile team, launching our first iOS app in 3 months.

I co-founded Spotter News, an iOS news ranking app featured on the Apple App Store. Spotter kept business people informed about companies, people, and industries important to their career. As CTO, I was the backend/ML lead. We integrated with over 1,000 news publishers, and provided tools to business people to configure the news to be most valuable to.

Mountain View, CA, US

I led numerous engineering teams. A few examples:Google Photos: I supported and led a 13 person distributed team to launch a completely redesigned, massively improved photo organization, browsing and uploading experience.Google Events: Product that competed with Evite/Facebook for inviting people to social events, integrated with Google Calendar.Google+.

Mountain View, CA, US

I created the Google Picker, leading product strategy and roadmapping, engineering, and people management. The picker is a developer tool that provides consistent photo, video, and document uploading and picking. The Picker is used across basically every Google web-based app, including Gmail, Google Docs, Maps, Blogger, and Google Photos. The team grew.

Mountain View, CA, US

I was a software engineer on a number of projects, including Google Video, Google Docs, Google Drive, Blogger and Gmail. I was responsible for internationalizing Google Finance. I drove the engineering behind Google Search's Bing-style UI in 2010 (killed after 12 hours, hah!.

San Jose, CA, US

We created Adobe's first web-powered products for commenting and collaboration. Our initial products empowered users to share PDFs and collaborate with comments and revision tracking, using Adobe-hosted and third-party services.