Paul Abrams Email & Phone Number

Nashville, Tennessee, Us

Product owner for machine learning, AI, and data science. Also leading teams in AI-based recommendations, web tracking, and data privacy.Hands-on technical leader across multiple product, engineering, and data science teams.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Product and engineering owner for Cheetah Personalization, including Machine Learning, Decisioning, Real-Time Personalization, Web Tags, and Intelligent Offers, on the Engagement Data Platform.Hands-on hybrid product/engineering/architect role leading multiple teams across front- and back-end engineering and data science.Cheetah Digital was acquired by CM Group (now Marigold) in October 2021.

Foster City, Ca, Us

Founding member of Stellar Loyalty, an enterprise big data CDP with a focus on big data Loyalty. Stellar Loyalty was founded in 2014 and acquired by Cheetah Digital in 2018. I was an engineering leader, architect, and product owner for several core components including campaigns, messages, content management, reporting, and web SDKs. I personally designed and built key UX components such as the Stellar content editor, reporting framework, and JavaScript SDK. I hired and managed a team of developers and UX engineers to work on the core platform and also help customers build loyalty portals using our SDKs and APIs. I also worked directly with strategic accounts (e.g. Vans, TNF) to advise their architects and developers on best practices and solution.

San Jose, California, Us

I was one of the founding members of Marketo (employee #6) and and a core leader in the engineering and product team for seven incredible years. I saw the team through the IPO and afterward.I reported to the CEO and managed Engineering Directors, Principle Engineers, architects, and other engineers who went on to become the new wave of engineering leadership at Marketo.I initially built most of the Marketo UI (in ExtJS) before hiring the applications development team to scale out. I remained an active full-stack developer and committed code every day.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Lead Engineer (UI) at IronPort Systems (now a Cisco Business Unit)- Full-stack development using Python and JavaScript- Drove adoption of newly emerging "Web 2.0" technologies (do you still remember that term?) such as Ajax and fledgeling JavaScript frameworks (mostly YUI).- Managed a dozen developers (UI and QA) in Ukraine

Weston, Ma, Us

Responsible for managing all technical aspects of HiringTools: - Seamless integration of the HiringTools suite into Monster.com - Scaled the application to support 92,000 recruiters - Developed HiringTools Enterprise edition - The HiringTools occupational taxonomy is used by Monster.com to classify all resumes

Founded HiringTools in 1999, which was acquired by Monster.com in 2001 - Led engineering from day one, designing and building the product from the ground up - Hired a small team of engineers; we mostly worked in Java and Python - Key components included a content management system, search engine, and occupational taxonomy to deliver content for 5,500 job titles, each with deep content and numerous aliases

Pioneered a proto-Ajax application: - Developed one of the first stateful JavaScript applications, using a Java Applet to connect to the server for pull/push data transfer - Wrote extensive JavaScript libraries (> 250 KB) for advanced DHTML page rendering, auto-save, client-side page rendering, and form validation (validate-as-you-type)

Bayport, Minnesota, Us

- Architected a pure Java middleware with high-volume transaction management, synchronization, and database connection pooling.- Built a multithreaded Java/C socket-based messaging adapter to PeopleSoft.- Worked with Java, Java Native Methods, JDBC, OOD, Java / C Sockets, mulithreading, C