Lawrence Krubner Email & Phone Number

New York, NY, US

New York, NY, US

New York, United States

I'm currently advising several entrepreneurs as they build up and launch their startups, and this includes:https://gruntledx.com/https://unslant.ai/https://himeetcute.com/I have 24 years experience writing code and building teams. Most of my experience is with early stage startups, moving them from 0 to 1 to 1,000,000. I've also helped rescue large firms.

New York, New York, United States

After several years of weak technical leadership, the Board Of Directors hired me to offer an objective analysis. I documented many structural flaws in the software. The Board Of Directors used my report to justify a reorganization of the company: they fired the CTO and COO and began a process of rebuilding. I took over the tech team. I redesigned the.

New York, New York, United States

I worked as their part–time CTO. A fast–growing ecommerce startup, last year they raised $73 million. I built the first iteration of their internal CRM tool and its integration with the warehouse so we could have real-time inventory tracking. I then hired their tech team and developed a roadmap with a realistic understanding of what skills they would need.

New York, New York, United States

An agency that served as a research & development department for Avis Rental Cars. We worked on their "Smart City" app, written in React, integrating all transport APIs, both public and private. I both hired and ran the software team. Evaluated 3rd party transport and mobility APIs for integration, set out principles for our “buy or build” decisions. Avis.

New York, New York, United States

An incredible new security startup that took advantage of the high security networks that exist inside of cell phone companies, routing requests inside of those networks so as to provide an extra layer of protection to transactions involving money. Once again, Mark Herschberg was the CTO (he'd previously hired me at ShermansTravel.com in 2011) and he asked.

New York, New York, United States

A thriving startup that used NLP and data scraping to accumulate financial information about privately held companies. Some unstructured geographic address information could not be parsed with any of our NLP tools, so we used Mechanical Turk. Raw data was dumped into AWS S3, then later Kafka. DynamoDB was used as an intermediate layer for storing some data.

New York City

My next startup was a "micro consulting" site where customers would pay $20 to $100 to get some immediate help from experts. I grew the business for 7 years, it became a popular site, and then I sold it in the summer of 2016. I hired a small team to help with design and marketing and programming. I oversaw every detail of the business.

New York, New York, United States

Using NLP to understand the text messages that salespeople type on their phones, Rollio would transform the texts from human languages to computer languages and then make use of the Salesforce API to update the Opportunities, Contacts, and Accounts of each salesperson. Relying on Clojure and Java, and making use of the Stanford Natural Language Processing.

Evansville, Indiana Area

LaunchOpen.com is an early stage startup building the future of education software -- a 2nd generation platform that integrates the scattered pieces of the 1st generation. The technology stack is polyglot. Working with Java, Ruby, Clojure and PHP I have built out the essential pieces of a micro-services stack, that both imports data from multiple LMS and.

New York

Time Out got 100 million unique users each month, but they had spent years building a bloated and inconsistent mix of technologies and were now faced with performance issues which left them crippled. They were losing market share to a company from Brazil that was selling a competing publishing system. A new architecture was necessary. I worked with the.

Greater New York City Area

A rescue mission. A travel site afflicted with very high levels of tech debt. In an effort to turn the company around, they hired Mark Herschberg as their CTO. Herschberg then brought me in to help in the turnaround effort. We gave up on a hopeless mess of PHP code and rebuilt the entire system as 6 very clean, focused Ruby apps, built using the Sinatra.

New York, New York, United States

The company was struggling with the expense and inflexibility of their tech stack, built in 1999: Sun boxes running Sun Solaris, Oracle database, Java language, Vignette CMS. Converted to an open source stack: Linux, MySQL, PHP, Symfony. Substantial reduction in TCO. Educated the team on the new technologies, expanded frontend team to better compete with.

Charlottesville, Virginia, United States

My co–founder, Peter Agelasto, and I raised $2 million to commercialize my software, written in PHP. I ran a team of eight, which included programmers, designers, and QA. We built niche communities around online video stores. Ihanuman.com was an immediate success, and it remains successful to this day. Eventually our customers included Bob Dylan and.