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San Mateo, CA, US

I manage a team within the Growth organization focused on conversion rate optimization.

San Mateo, CA, US

I managed the team for Upstart's lead product, Personal Loans.

San Francisco, California, US

PicnicHealth is a medical records startup focused on data portability. I was hired to improve the API platform.

Santa Clara, CA, US

• Quid is a data visualization software platform. I worked a staff role with the Machine Learning team. I split my time between managing an engineering team and developing the organization. My technical focus was.
• Was the lead engineer on Quid's second product through launch, a workflow automation tool.
• Worked with the Engineering VP to scale up teams: hiring, skills training, on-call rotation.
• Introduced GraphQL and Conductor workflow orchestration to the team.

San Francisco, CA, US

• Neon was a computer vision startup that quantified the interestingness of images. I was hired to build a photo product to complement an existing video product.
• Expanded use cases to include scoring photo galleries and scenes within movies.
• Took raw, state-of-the-art machine learning models to shippable product.
• Shipped video.js plugin to self-publish our A/B test engine to partners IGN, CNN, Fox.

At this gaming startup, we developed a framework for social games.

I was the second engineer at this social network for travel.

We founded Dora to offer search and recommendation for local events on phones.

San Francisco, CA, US

• Tagged, now called if(we), is a large-scale social discovery service with a website and set of mobile apps. I managed the team for its popular social game, Pets. Later, I managed the Platform team.
• Managed platform team responsible for shared services: search, recommendation, presence, scoreboards.
• Maintained Tagged's flagship gaming product, Pets, which grossed $2-3m per month.
• Helped to hire dozens of engineer and product roles; interviewed hundreds of engineers.

San Francisco, CA, US

• I was hired to rework its release process. I created and led the dev oncall team. Later, I architected core systems including photos, search and recommendation.
• Designed recommendation-based search engine for user-generated content.
• Performed web stack optimization (CDN tuning, static asset serving, profiling).
• Wrote user photo storage processing between 200k and 1M new photos per day.
• Built devops/release team, moving from <10 releases per year to continuous delivery (CD) with higher uptime.

• JCS was a medical services company that developed software for clinics. I led the web development team.
• Wrote medical notes and billing software for dozens of clinics.
• Worked with staff and physicians to specify new product requirements.
• Coordinated development with remote team.

Mayfield Heights, OH, US

TMW is a trucking logistics software suite. I implemented EDI data definition and translation for carriers' partners like Walmart. TMW was acquired by Trimble Inc.