Cto
Chicago, Illinois, Us
Worked with really cool co-founders to fulfill a unique vision of a B2B SaaS in the commercial cleaning space.Route is a unique offering which, through its Walkthroughs, Estimates and Proposals system allows cleaning companies to increase their sales efficiency and collaborate in ways which were impossible before. It also empowers novice users with the learned tips, tricks and best practices of highly evolved multi-million dollar companies - giving them a shortcut to success.Main activities:- Help ideate product features, roadmap, overall vision and strategy. Then helped build every piece. I took a frugal approach (which became increasingly necessary with our budget and burn rate constraints).- Using an all-JS stack (MERN + React Native), we were able to deliver an offline capable mobile app on iOS + Android, a fully functional business dashboard and proposal builder on web, their common backend API, as well as an Electron based internal admin and customer support tool.- Extremely lean peak team size 4 engineers, mean team size 2 engineers (including myself).- Owned all aspects of deployment and management of the technology, as well as significant individual contributor in each project.- Paid close attention to product and brand design. Includes creation of the logo, overall look and feel and per feature UX decisions.- Met or exceeded aggressive schedules for product build, demos at conferences and MVPs for larger clients.- Mentored relatively green engineers; helped them get familiar with the tech stack, product codebase and how to excel in a nimble, fast moving team.- Participated in fundraising efforts, due diligence, team building, daily operations management as well.- After shipping V1, stepped up in sales and marketing through analytics, building out SEM based sales funnel.- Helped identify and evaluate opportunities and threats.