Mustafa "Moose" Paksoy Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, Ca, Us

San Francisco, Us

I partner with the founders of early-stage tech startups to solve problems around people and technology. Leadership work:- Technical Leadership for the Reluctant Manager: Designed and taught full-day workshops on technical leadership for technical founders and early engineers at seed-stage startups. Developed in partnership with early-stage VC fund Bloomberg Beta.- Technical Communications Design: Developed tech spec and communication templates for a client in order to assist their team of all-remote engineers communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.- Hiring Process: Designed end-to-end hiring and onboarding process for the first junior frontend hire on a team of experienced full-stack generalists.- Leadership Development: Provided 1 on 1 leadership guidance to first-time engineering managers and tech leads at Series A startup and facilitated crucial conversations on their teams.Technical work:- React Migration: Guided client in the process of migrating from jQuery to React. Assisted in all aspects of the migration including re-writing build tooling to use Webpack, implementing sample components, and re-training the eng team on React and CSS.- Firebase Performance Tuning: Coached client through implementing fine-grained end-to-end application performance monitoring on Firebase using Honeycomb in order to performance tune critical code paths.- GraphQL Application Security: Audited and updated the application security logic for a SaaS product that uses GraphQL for client-server communication. Created generalized security logic to ensure customer account data isolation.

San Francisco, California, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

I led the engineering team for Amplitude's Recommend product. I also co-owned GTM and product strategy. During my tenure, our product grew revenues 4x to mid-7-figures.Amplitude Recommend allows our customers to take action on the behavioral insights that they discover using our analytics platform. With our cohort sync, user profile API, ML based prediction and recommendation engine, our customers can build delightful experiences that adapt to user behavior in real time.

San Francisco, California, Us

Palo Alto, California, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

- Hired and oversaw two teams of 14 junior and senior instructors. Ran daily standups and performance reviews.- Led curriculum development on modules including full-stack web development with Node.js, front-end development with React, web application security, SQL database performance optimization, and algorithms interview prep.- Gave top rated lectures multiple days each week to student audiences as large as 150.- Built content management tooling for developing and publishing lesson materials with source control using Reveal.js.- Worked with students 1-1 on independent projects and provided career guidance.

New York, New York, Us

- Managed the Data Infrastructure, Application Infrastructure, and DevOps teams.- Oversaw multi-year project to migrate Optimizely's core analytics infrastructure from MongoDB to Hadoop+HBase, that resulted in 6-figure annual reduction in AWS hosting costs.

San Francisco, California, Us

- As the Tech Lead for the Search Experience team, re-architected the core search results interface at Salesforce to use client-side rendering. New architecture provided a 50% latency improvement on all search queries after the first.- Developed a patented distributed snapshot and recovery engine for Lucene (i.e. ElasticSearch) search indices for backups and system testing.- Successfully advocated a major change in performance monitoring and testing practices to include client-side (i.e. in-browser) latency.- Led skunkworks projects to champion canvas and SVG based analytics data visualizations.

Designed and implemented module for a course management system (Moodle) that interfaces with a professional video conferencing suite (Marratech). Key contributor to application design and implementation.