Mehrshad Setayesh Email & Phone Number

St George, Utah, Us

Responsible for leading a remote team to enhance a B2C SaaS solution comprised of both web and mobile apps hosted in AWS serving 300K members, enabling them to upload their medical records and manage their health journey. Records, uploaded both manually and automatically via Apple Health, can be shared with first responders via QR code scanning on a medical device in emergencies or with providers of the user’s choice.• Executive Cooperation: Worked with the Board, CEO, and Senior Leadership Team to develop the short, medium, and long-term vision for the technology organization to align with the organizational priorities.• Agile & Scrum Methodology: Established a full agile-based, well-oiled software development life cycle, respecting all agile ceremonies utilizing Kanban boards where applicable. Involved teams included full stack engineers, project managers, QA engineers, and UX designers. • Engineering Culture Creation: Harmonized Git flows, Jira swim lanes, and development environments to establish stress-free, streamlined feature delivery pipelines that produce advanced qualitative features on time.

Consulted, led, and scaled SaaS-based technology teams for private equity and venture capital firms across five key areas: Product & Technology, Scalability, Streamlined Organizations, Go-to-Market Strategy, and Mergers & Acquisitions. This role involved scoring each portfolio company across 100 different metrics and recommending improvements as needed• Product & Technology: Evaluated various product and technology stacks, identifying strengths and areas for improvement such as performance optimizations, quality challenges, CICD pipelines, SDLC efficiencies, and single points of failure• Scalability: Performed detailed deep dives into platform scalability measures, focusing on performance, throughput, latency, and quality. Expanded scalability due diligence to organizational measures such as delivery speed, team growth, productivity, and code quality• Streamlined Organizations: Consulted and managed the buildout of highly efficient, globally distributed teams, fostering a transparent, accountable, and trustworthy culture. Focused on building strong ties within and between teams, particularly between technology and leadership organizations• Go to Market Strategy: Operated across various organizations within portfolio companies to construct efficient short- and long-term product roadmaps and funnels using a WSJF-based prioritization approach. Tracked each feature's cost to ARR ratio and fed this data back into tactical execution to optimize costs and maximize profit• Mergers & Acquisitions: Assessed technical efficiencies and team structures, producing briefs on the cost and merits of each acquisition. Worked with acquired organizations to optimize productivity, creating efficient teams focused on streamlined execution preparing both the product and the organization for a successful exit

Responsible for scaling a senior advanced engineering org leveraging an agile framework to build a streaming high performance big data AI driven SaaS platform applying advanced image analysis to petabytes of satellite images producing hundreds of attributes on residential and commercial properties, used primarily by insurance companies• Technology Innovation & Scalability: Owned an eight-digit budget to hire & manage a 40-strong dev team with an 80% capacity spent on increasing revenue through rapid feature development and 20% on automating the backend big data SaaS platform reducing the second biggest cost being the AWS expenditure by 30%• Executive Collaboration: Occupied a pivotal role of building a revenue driven, productive, efficient, and customer-oriented relationship with the leadership team of Product, Sales, HR, Legal, CEO, and the Board• Engineering Culture Creation: Enjoyed spending an intensive effort on building a diverse, distributed, and team-oriented culture focused on accountability, transparency, trust, and efficiency hitting a 90% sprint completion goal by all teams of AI, QA, DevOps, CloudOps, SecOps, ITOps, Platform, and Application • Streaming Architecture: Led the team to create an advance unique streaming platform in InsureTech processing millions of images via Airflow using AWS services of S3, EKS, MSK, EC2, and RDS • Agile & Scrum Methodology: Established a full agile-based, well-oiled software engineering CICD execution pipeline design, respecting all agile ceremonies utilizing Kanban and Scrum boards where applicable

Denver, Colorado, Us

Tasked with creation of an advanced engineering org founded on agile culture to build a state-of-the-art big data AI driven SaaS platform that processes 10% of all US adult population claims. Worked with the CEO and ELT to set mission and vision objectives that addressed complex customer features and grew revenues 50% YoY for 3 years• Executive Cooperation: Worked with the Board, CEO, and Senior Leadership Team to develop the short, medium, and long-term vision for the technology organization to align with the organizational priorities• Strategic Management: Collaborated with internal and external stakeholders to allocate critical resources to deliver planned and unplanned features according to well-established guidelines and meet aggressive timelines• Development and Mentorship: Relished hiring, mentoring, and rapidly growing an advanced team focused on on-time execution and producing quality SaaS features to meet market obligations and ARR goals• Technology Innovation & Scalability: Led a global 36-strong team to turn a service-oriented execution into a cloud AI platform processing millions of healthcare claims via Spark, Databricks, Flask, Airflow, Postgres• Agile & Scrum Methodology: Established a full agile-based, well-oiled software engineering CICD execution pipeline, respecting all agile ceremonies utilizing Kanban and Scrum boards where applicable• Technology Innovation & Scalability: Scaled the platform performance 50X via Azure’s elasticity while reducing data center costs by more than 2X using Azure hardware, software, and infrastructure optimizations• Near/Off/On Shore Execution: Expanded the engineering team to India and South America by handpicking and mentoring senior engineers with expertise in Automation QA, API, React, Angular JS, and C#

Austin, Texas, Us

Tasked with responsibility to build a social media platform for the entire set of Oracle cloud suites by merging and integrating $500MM worth of purchased orgs with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Oracle Marketing, Data, and Service Clouds, resulting in 100+ engineering org distributed across 3 continents• Multiline Revenue Development: Regularly cooperated with VPs, SVPs, EVPs, and Fortune 500 clientele to build multi-product revenue lines through partnerships and integrations, generating $100MMs worth of contracts• Leadership Grooming: Integrated three different organizations spread across China, India, and five US locations by optimizing leadership hierarchies promoting efficient execution, communication, and growth• Development & Mentorship: Enjoyed crossing linguistic and cultural barriers by hiring and mentoring top- notch professionals with a variety of advanced degrees across China, India, and US locations• Streaming Architecture: Employed high throughput components of Kafka, HBase, Redis, Solr, HA Proxy, Exalogic, and Exadata on a backbone of 1000 servers processing a trillion categorization operations per day• Technology Innovation & Scalability: Integrated LSA, NLP, sentiment analysis in 32 languages to enrich 500MM messages/day, respecting a 10s end-to-end latency per social message downloaded from the web• Engineering Culture Creation: Harmonized Git flows, Jira swim lanes, and development environments to establish stress-free, streamlined feature delivery pipelines that produce advanced qualitative features on time

Rose in ranks from a senior software engineer to CTO and VP Product responsible for designing and implementing a high throughput advanced social media platform with an expertise in noise reduction to capture insights on Fortune 500 brands which were discussed and promoted in various online properties such as Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, YouTube, etc.• Executive Cooperation: Partnered with the Board and CEO to strategically maximize series A and B investments by quality hiring of key resources and pedantic construction of the underlying platform• Strategic Management: Collaborated with leadership and customer advisory board to rapidly implement and track cost vs revenue generation of critical features, WSJF, adjusting the process as needed to maximize profit• Mergers & Acquisitions: Spearheaded two-month-long due diligence led by Oracle, evaluating not only the platform scale and performance but also the accuracy of promoted IP, both passing rigorous tests scenarios• Microservice Architecture: Leveraged Java Dropwizard framework to build a streaming architecture enriching millions of messages daily via LSA based categorization and NLP-based sentiment analysis• Technology Innovation & Scalability: Grew DC footprint to process hundreds of millions of messages daily from a single server to more than a thousand, learning a lot by a forklift move to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

• Architected a methodology to discover high quality data among 55 million blogs constituting the blog sphere world• Responsible for creating and maintaining a very complex infrastructure to download and process information relevant to a specific topic• Designed and implemented complex algorithms using advanced mathematical formulas to score and grade a high volume of downloaded data• Worked with Ruby, Ruby on Rails, and Java on multiple projects in parallel

Masters, Software Engineering

Computer Science