Academia is building a new distribution and peer review platform. Our mission is to accelerate the world’s research and make every academic publication available for free to anyone, anywhere, in any language, and in any format.Academia has built a network of Academics around the world who access our platform through their desktop and now mobile devices to collaborate, review newsfeeds, make recommendations on papers, create a new way of evaluating the quality of a paper with PaperRank, and achieve “aha” moments by participating in live, real-time collaborative sessions. Academia’s platform has registered more than 160 million users (growing at over 70,000 per day), with over 20M MAU, and over 250,000 premium subscribers. We have over 60 million unique visitors come to our website every month (this has doubled in the last year). Growth is 50% y-o-y.Academia is located in San Francisco, on Kearny & California St, near the Montgomery BART station. We are a Remote Work company. We have over 85 employees and over 40 in engineering.Our stack:We use Ruby on Rails, RSpec, Jasmine, PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, Neo4j, Kafka, and React on AWS.

GreeneSearch, Inc. is a leading technical recruiting firm based in the San Francisco Bay Area. http://www.greenesearch.com

Contingency Search Firm, with specialty in early and mid-stage venture-backed technology companies.

I was personally responsible and accountable for building the company from 11 people when I joined in 2003, to the present 50 people they have now. My specialty is finding and recruiting hard core engineering and product management talent. At Plaxo, I was also responsible for day to day HR function, Managing Organizational Design, and did staffing, compensation, benefits, labor law, immigration, organizational and career development as well.

Acted as VP of Engineering, Engineering Recruiter, and HR Director. Clients included Plaxo, Inc., (www.plaxo.com), SkyBitz (www.skybitz.com), Capital Sevant, Inc, Encirq (www.encirq.com). Contract Recruiter for numerous Silicon Valley firms.

Stuart managed and directed UI, UX, QA and Operations software engineers and managers.

Compiler Project Manager: responsible for delivering the 1st certified Ada95 compiler on MIPS 3/4 platforms. C++ Compiler Manager. Software development manager for CASE tools.

Software development manager to build software configuration management tools; software metrics reporting tools; a runtime executable object branding, reading and swapping tool; and a tcp/ip virtual terminal for the HP3000.

Designed and built tools to integrate manufacturing design into the order processing system.

Researched and built Environmental Protection Agency databases, modeling the flow of Coal Fired Electricity Generation Facilities' pollution in the Ohio River Valley and other locales. Designed and built FORTRAN models, to model the flow of pollutants through the valley, based on different growth and intensity scenarios.