John Shedletsky Email & Phone Number

Silicon Valley, Ca, Us

It's basically a hedge fund that also makes wine and videogames.80% of our seed stage investments have reached series A in 12 months. So crazy.

San Mateo, California, Us

Collaborate on products with licensing team.Designed all the Roblox action figures. Sold 80M of them last year.Conceptualized the instant children's classic "Where's the Noob" available at fine bookstores everywhere and a bunch of other books that are not classics.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Crushed it.• Built automated driver acquisition pipelines for channels that no one automates and scaled them 3x keeping CPA constant.• Data plumber (spoiler: too much gets stuck in Google Sheets)• Wrote a bunch of terrible SQL and got yelled at for being the second worst CPU burglar on Redshift.• Working on realtime stream compute with some kickass engineers (join us!)

Built a site similar to Zillow/Redfin for people trying to buy/sell businesses.Built everything myself using C# on Azure.Turns out building a two-sided market from scratch is hard, but I still believe this is an area ripe for disruption, since broker's fees in these transactions are as high as 15%, which is insane.

Palo Alto, California, Us

Built and deployed the software MVP for my sister's stealth mode Computer Vision/Analytics startup as a solo software engineer.• OpenCV + Factory Floor + Big Data + Automated QA + Remote Analytics• Deployed to mass production line in China (100k+ units) and to development lines elsewhere.• Fast development. Turnaround time from inception to deploy of first version ~3 weeks. Took a two page spec and ran with it.• Super human performance on computer vision classification task achieved after 10 weeks.

San Mateo, California, Us

• Joined ROBLOX as employee #1. Had a great run creating the largest kids’ gaming site on the internet. Jack of many trades.• C++ developer. Added many fundamental primitives to the ROBLOX game engine. Character animation, 3D graphics, networking, embedded scripting language APIs, CAD system development, and more.• C# web developer. Front to back-end development of many ROBLOX web features including a self-serve internal advertising system, AB test framework, player achievement system, and more.• Marketing. Managed ROBLOX online ad spend through the point where we were spending 60k/month and brought in a professional. SEO. SEM. Social Media.• Product development. Daily one-on-one meetings with CEO to set product direction and development priorities. SQL dataminer and Excel insight monger. Intermediary on cross-team projects. Chief dogfood eater.• Internal games team manager. Hired/managed group of 3-6 talented entry-level developers who built games and interactive content on our platform for various integrated advertising deals and ROBLOX-hosted special events. Made these guys eat the dogfood too. • Social media team lead and developer evangelist. Most public face of ROBLOX to the player developer community. Manager of social media/blogging team. @Shedletsky on twitter and YouTube.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Summer internships• Got my first programming job at IBM when I was 13. Building a multimedia search interface for CNN.• Profile performance of various business application servers running in clusters. SAP, WebSphere, etc.• Research group on cellular automata• Research group on mobile search (for flippy phones)• International Business Monkey