Justin Laing Email & Phone Number

Tote is venture-backed and based in the Bay Area, CA. Our mission is to help enterprise retailers deliver seamless experiences for their consumers.

Santa Cruz, Ca, Us

-Joined Jane to build Jane POS: The in-store compliment to Jane's industry leading Ecommerce platform for cannabis dispensaries.-Leveraged my knowledge and skills around Point of Sale and leading engineering teams.-Built a new team and,-Successfully launched Jane POS and began a process of continual improvement to both the product and the team.-Introduced and reinforced many engineering best practices across the organization.-Coaching and mentoring of engineers at all levels. Developing new engineer leaders and core contributors.-Facilitating and developing cross functional collaboration between Design, Product, and my engineering team.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

After transitioning my team to Google, I chose to move to a Staff Software engineer role at Google. This denoted the successful transition of myself and team from Crank Logic to Looker and on to Google through those acquisitions.

Santa Cruz, Ca, Us

Joined Looker to build vertical specific data applications. Helped win key accounts for Looker including fortune 10 companies. This strategic initiative was mentioned as one of the key features and initiatives at Looker when acquired by Google for $2.9 billion in 2020. Successfully transitioned myself and team during the acquisition of Looker by Google.

Enabling main street retailers to be successful in the new age of big data and business intelligence. We give independent retailers the same tools as large corporations to analyze their data and draw out insights that help them improve their business and make more profits.- Successfully sold the product and IP to Lightspeed- Successfully transitioned the team, including myself, to become part of Looker

Montreal, Quebec, Ca

-Scale the product from 2,000 to over 8,000 retail locations.-Launched 4 new products.-Built the team from 4 to over 30, including directly recruiting many developers, ops, and QA.-Delivered hundreds of features and fixes to the SaaS product.-Oversaw the transition from MerchantOS to Lightspeed. MerchantOS becoming Lightspeed Retail, the flagship product of Lightspeed POS.

(Acquired by Lightspeed POS)-Co-founded the company.-Responsible for 100% of the development of the product from 2003 to 2008-Scaled the SaaS product from 0 to over 2,000 retail locations running our software with billions in transaction processed.-Functioned as the director of marketing, planning and executing strategies in SEO, SEM, word of mouth, trade shows, content marketing.-Manage a team of 23 employees, hiring and firing.-Involved in all areas of the business while we bootstrapped.-Negotiated successful sale of the business to Lightspeed POS.

Software developer. Implemented features, reports, bug fixes in C to the core Student Information System product.Created the first mobile app for the company, a Palm application that allowed staff to look up students and report on attendance and grades.

Created a disk analysis tool in Pascal.

Santa Cruz, Ca, Us

Designed, developed, and maintained web pages for various departments within UCSC. Met with coordinators/clients, developed specifications, and designed web sites from the ground up.