Technical CEO, solving many business problems with technology.

- Achieved record profit.- Cut business expenses by 50%.- Enhanced organizational efficiency through workflow optimization, automation, staffing, and empowering top talent.- Realized an 80% savings on software and vendor costs, including AWS infrastructure.- Implemented agile methodology, improved SDLC and upgraded entire engineering team.- Built proprietary marketing tools and a payment gateway solution for both internal use and external sales.- Built an industry-leading email marketing program using Klaviyo, generating over 60% of total revenue.

As a consulting CTO I help startups with:- Defining and implementing software solutions, ranging from an MVP to an enterprise platform.- Setting and streamlining the software development life cycle.- Technology selection and evaluation, both for greenfield projects and existing systems.- Hiring and team building, fostering team culture, and conducting team assessments.- Conducting due diligence for investments, acquisitions, and mergers.- Providing technology roadmap and recommendations for business growth.- Performing technology audits and assessments for optimization.- Offering technical leadership and mentoring for teams and stakeholders.

- Directed a team of over 100 engineers and senior managers across USA and offshore locations.- Expanded the engineering department from 100 to 300 while promoting cultural growth, streamlining onboarding and interview processes, and enhancing key performance indicators and software development life cycle processes.- Mentored engineering leaders for established and new teams.- Implemented agile transformation by establishing a PMO, restructuring engineering into 35 scrum teams, and training on scrum methodology.- Certified in ISO, SOC2, and GDPR by establishing and managing an InfoSec function.- Streamlined operations and improved employee satisfaction by introducing processes for SDLC, onboarding, support requests, incident management, bug management, work intake, and procurement.- Led QE, DevOps, PMO, IT, procurement, Jira admin, and InfoSec teams.

- Oversaw Backend, Frontend, Data, and DevOps teams.- Successfully migrated operations from AWS to GCP, resulting in a $1M/year cost savings and a $1.1M credit.- Drove multiple complex refactoring projects and new initiatives to completion.- Optimized cloud infrastructure, realizing over $1.2M in yearly savings.- Contributed to the design and architecture of new products that cater to high-traffic enterprise clients.

- Developed and expanded the core app that continues to be utilized today. The product serves billions of ad and personalized marketing impressions, a billion 1:1 emails and text messages each month, driven by petabytes of user behavior data on nearly a thousand ecommerce and publisher sites.- Created a CRM used by hundreds of internal and external users.- Patented innovative technologies such as Exit Intent and other trigger technologies for advertising and marketing- Invented an identity graph technology that tracks billions of users.- Integrated with over 100 email service providers and constructed APIs for internal and external use.

- One of the founding engineers- Built the website, CRM and landing pages using PHP, JavaScript, jQuery, MySQL- Built web scraping bots to enrich internal database

- Built marketing technology for the ecommerce website using jQuery and PHP- Built the website itself using Yahoo RTML- Built web scraping bots to enrich inventory data

- Implemented website marketing optimizations to increase conversion rate

- Built new website categories and pages using PHP, PostgreSQL, proprietary frameworks and jQuery- Built ticketing system that printed thousands of tickets for New York Halloween and New Year's Eve party goers

- Built Music category for the website using PHP and jQuery- Integrated Brightcove video player to play music videos on the website