Seth Goldstein Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

Greater New York City Area

[Creators of Search & Maps, which tell you how to get from point A to point B, and also help you discover the world by suggesting point C. 6 reports]2024 Events for Search & MapsLeading the team through a pivot, answering the question “what should I do this weekend?” Took over the existing Events pipeline, which scrapes schema.org markup, filters for policy & quality issues, clusters with partner feed data, and publishes to a knowledge graph for use by multiple front-ends. Responsible for maintaining and improving overall corpus quality and coverage. Team piloted LLMs for web extraction & quality measurement.2019-2023 Food for Search & MapsLed the team answering the question “what should I eat?” Responsible for understanding dishes and menus at restaurants worldwide, organizing the information using ML & clustering, and displaying it on Maps and in Search. Initially led a full stack team, then focused on infrastructure as the product grew.Designed system to combine structured and unstructured content from users, merchants, and partner feeds, along with structured menu data extracted from user menu photos & the web using ML and operator transcription.Navigated complex legal and policy issues around data usage restrictions related to different content sources, creating a tracking system that attached a rights descriptor to data objects at ingestion time, which flowed through our pipelines along with the data.

Boston, Ma

[Creators of the wireless IoT multi-room home sound system that defines and leads the category, with over a billion dollars in revenue. 5 reports]Led the Cloud Services arm of the Platform team. With the firmware team, created the Open Developer Platform for Sonos, with highly concurrent, highly available, low-latency web services that enabled secure remote control of Sonos devices (Java, WebSockets, AWS).Enabled new customer experiences like Spotify Direct Control, Amazon Alexa voice integration, Google Assistant integration, IFTTT integration (which I implemented).Drove internal use-cases that spanned firmware and controller apps, such as secure product registration, A/B testing, remote firmware feature toggles, remote diagnostics.

Cambridge, Ma

Cambridge, Ma

[Creators of Guitar Hero, Rock Band, Dance Central, and Disney Fantasia: Music Evolved. Reported to CTO. 30 reports]Engineering leadership• Proposed & managed budget for engineering ($3M) and patent prosecution ($250K)• Introduced processes to improve code quality: wrote the C++ coding standard and code ownership guidelines, initiated code/architecture critiques to disseminate system knowledge and best practices, initiated code reviews.• Took over as TL of Rock Band Network, enabling bands to put their music into Rock Band• Helped manage studio-wide pivot from waterfall to Scrum• Co-inventor: Dance game and tutorial (US 8702485), Gesture-based user interface (US 20110185309)• Speaker at Endicott College (“The Evolution of Rock Band”). Guest Leader Panelist for 2013 MIT LeaderShape Institute.People management• Hired and managed a team of 30 engineers with specialties spanning graphics, animation, gameplay, AI, UX, console internals, databases, and networking• Managed team across full development cycles of 8 major console titles, on aggressive annual release schedules, including The Beatles: Rock Band, Rock Band 3, Rock Band Blitz, Dance Central, Dance Central 2, Dance Central 3, and Disney’s Fantasia: Music Evolved• Designed and owned performance management, driving consistency across departments and clarifying responsibilities throughout the company with interlocking job descriptionsPatent Prosecution• Owned patent prosecution for a portfolio of over 50 patents and applications. Recommended inventions to patent, wrote and reviewed over 75 applications and office action responses• Supported FTO opinions, patent litigation code archaeology, document production, and arguments for claim charts• Speaker on PAX East 2013 panel (“Everything You’ve Heard about Patent Law is Wrong”)

Beverly, Ma

[Creators of the ubiquitous productivity suite: Microsoft Office. 5 reports]Led team responsible for turning Groove Virtual Office into Microsoft Office Groove 14, part of the Microsoft Office suite. Implemented i18n support for 34 languages, including East Asian and Bidirectional languages. Team also responsible for Ribbon UI integration, Windows Desktop Search integration, accessibility, x64 port, and UI component frameworkPrimary designer/developer for critical security risk mitigation for ActiveX controls (Patent co-inventor: US 7818798 - Software system with controlled access to objects). Point person and developer for all issues relating to calendaring, time zones

Beverly, Massachusetts, United States

[Creators of Groove Virtual Office, a suite of business-oriented collaboration tools built on a secure distributed synchronization platform, running as client/server and peer-to-peer, online and offline, synchronizing opportunistically with other users]Designed and implemented several subsystems, ranging from back end data synchronization components to front end tools exposed to end users:• Major middleware components responsible for synchronizing record-oriented, binary, and XML data across multiple devices• Group calendaring tool, group web co-browsing tool• Unit-testing framework for synchronization engines• Over 25 vertical solutions for the Rapid Solutions marketing effort, and a build pipeline for producing them with a consistent look and feel

Natick, Ma

ConSolve (startup) - Director of EngineeringHP Labs - Membjer of Technical Staff

Sm, Computer Science

Graduate research in speech recognition and parsing algorithms for natural language. Graduate research in machine vision.

Sb, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

Undergraduate research in machine vision. Core curriculum in both Computer Science & Electrical Engineering. Significant coursework.