David Kiger Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, CA, US

San Francisco, CA, US

As the Director of Engineering for the Local Acquisition and Monetization group, I am responsible for getting new businesses onto the platform, onboarding them, and converting them to paying customers. This area of ownership covers marketing infrastructure, acquisition flows, in-product education, and self-serve advertising flows. My responsibilities.

San Francisco, CA, US

I led engineering for Yelp for Restaurants for three years, taking ownership of the Yelp Reservations and Yelp Waitlist products. These were brought in-house via acquisition, and as such had disparate and non-Yelp-standard technical stacks. My job was to pull these pieces into a coherent product backed by a well-supported technical foundation while.

San Francisco, CA, US

As the Head of Engineering for Yelp Hamburg, I was responsible for building out the engineering teams to support our mid-market and enterprise advertising products, along with supporting the existing local advertising product. Through that time, I built up our European recruiting team, developed a full internship program, and was responsible for hiring.

San Francisco, CA, US

While on the consumer side of the product, I managed multiple teams through a variety of reorganizations. The teams I was responsible for over this time had ownership of the general web-based portion of the product, the contribution flows across all platforms, and the community features.

San Francisco, CA, US

As an engineer, I led the creation of our review origin tracking system, migrated career tooling from Jobvite to Lever, and worked on large refactoring projects involving the write-a-review flow and our transition to service oriented architecture.

I started a small contracting firm to support some existing customers from Idea Tree when that firm shut down. This was primarily PHP and JavaScript development with the AngularJS framework.At the same time, I used this as an opportunity to work on some independent game development.

- Developed iPad and iPhone versions of an iOS app for high-end women's fashion.- Implemented a Baker framework ebook iOS app for a local brochure magazine.- Reverse engineered an English-to-ASL translation iOS app for single words, sentences, and common phrases.- Designed and developed a JavaScript Gantt chart system for scheduling construction projects..

Medford, Massachusetts, US

- Refactored and redesigned storage and access systems for a set of over four million PPT slides.- Designed and implemented a standardized curriculum management tool.- Diagnosed and optimized data caching in user sessions when certain power users reported obscure, irreproducible bugs.- Researched various JavaScript libraries and developed new features in.

Hunt Valley, MD, US

- Engineered both air and ground realtime software to control unmanned aircraft according to NATO standards.- Handled preliminary and detailed design for mission-critical features.- Designed and carried out full-coverage tests both internally and with external government agencies.- Performed diagnostic analysis and field debugging during live equipment.

- Wrote a dynamic and modularly expandable CMS for basic website updates.- Designed and implemented an MLS importer and custom real estate search engine.- Engineered a custom ERP system for tradeshow management.- Created robust importing scripts for a variety of applications.Languages: PHP, JavaScript, HTML, CSSDatabase: MySQL

Ms, Computer Science

Ba, Philosophy

As, Computer Science