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7BC Venture Capital is a venture fund focused on powering the digital economy investing in companies that automate human workflows and harness the power of data. We back innovative founders solving society’s biggest challenges.

DigniFi is a BNPL FinTech SaaS platform utilizing AI/ML to connect consumers with the best lenders for their auto-related needs. We were honored to be listed on Deloitte's 2021 North America Technology Fast 500.Evangelized a micro-service product architecture to the entire company and successfully led the transition from a monolithic Ruby app to a secure, scalable, and extensible platform;Tripled the size of the engineering team within a year by recruiting top talent from across the country;Established effective engineering processes and implemented best practices to enhance production stability and improve the consistency and quality of new feature releases.

Jaxjox is a fitness technology company creating highly designed, IoT connected strength training devices and a SaaS platform that deliver complete and seamless workout experiences. We believe all fitness devices should be "smart" and connected. With AI/ML and data collected from fitness devices, we help each and every customer to better enjoy their workout experiences and reach their fitness goals.

Markedly helps startups and VCs to continuously measure and optimize their or their portfolio companies' product-market fit. We scientifically and systematically validate startups' riskiest hypotheses with in-market signals from the target audience by analyzing variety of data sources with AI and Machine Learning.

Led the Engine, UI and SRE Scrum teams to plan monthly goals and execute weekly sprints to successfully ship Alpha and Beta of the workflow platform;Applied Okta's Always-On mantra and engineering best practices to harden the workflow platform and meet performance, security and compliance requirements for public release;Led the Azuqua engineering team going through the entire M&A cycle, retained all key talents and successfully integrated people, product and processes with Okta.

As one of the fastest growing Seattle SaaS startups on Geekwire 200 list, Azuqua empowered businesses to automate their workflows in a no-code/low-code environment. Led the multi-tier Scrum engineering teams to plan and execute sprint cycles to build and enhance the mission-critical, no-code workflow platform that serves hundreds of business customers and OEM partners. Improved engineering group’s productivity and consistency by establishing Scrum, production monitoring/alerting, TDD, design review, feature dual-ownership etc. processes.Led the team to rebuild the Node.js workflow execution engine in RUST to resolve reliability and scalability issues in a multi-tenant run-time environment.Led the team to roll out distributed tracing and Kubernetes auto-scaling solutions

Socedo's mission was to enable enterprise marketers to turn social media into a demandgen channel within fifteen minutes by leveraging the power of Cloud Computing, Big Data and AI. Led the engineering team to build a B2B SaaS product that served 200+ businesses customers including Microsoft, Salesforce, Lenovo, Western Union, EventBrite etc.

Worked on Quadrant, an incubation project within SQL Azure group, that enables knowledge workers to build database apps without coding; spearheaded the effort to transform the project from a regular web app into a multi-tenant Cloud app running on top of Windows Azure and SQL Azure Cloud platforms.

Led dev teams to develop, operate and maintain mission-critical engineering portfolio that manages Microsoft's global volume licensing programs, including Software Assurance Benefits, MSDN Subscriptions and Online Services (Windows/SQL Azure, Office Live etc.)

Led a team to analyze business requirements and design future-state product activation enterprise services for a major software company Applied Accenture’s industry best practice in designing new channel partner incentive marketing program and solution framework for a Global 100 companyRegularly participated in formulating responses to Request for Proposals and presenting the proposal to clientele’s senior management teamAs member of the PacWest Leadership team shared the responsibilities of regional business development, capability building, solution delivery and performance management

Led a team to design and implement BizTalk Server's v1 Business Activity Monitoring feature that provided real-time insight into enterprise messaging bus Designed and implemented v1 SQL Reporting Services navigation feature using C#, ASP.Net, T-SQL, XML/XSL, HTML/DHTML and JavaScriptDesigned and implemented the WebDAV (Distributed Authoring and Versioning) APIs, the web part store and the security system using C#, SQL and Windows security APIsCo-filed "Self-Maintaining Real-Time Aggregation" and "Distributed Navigation Business Activity Data" patents in US, EU and China