Head of Engineering @ Clubhouse
Built out a remote-first engineering organization from ~15 engineers to 40+ across iOS, Android, Web, Backend, Discovery/ML, Platform and Infrastructure
2021-2023
Built out a remote-first engineering organization from ~15 engineers to 40+ across iOS, Android, Web, Backend, Discovery/ML, Platform and Infrastructure
2021-2023
Novi was a new digital wallet for the Diem (p.k.a. Libra) payment system. Unfortunately, Novi was never allowed to launch by the US government (read the inside story from Financial Times)
2021
Started and grew the Identity team from 1 engineer to 20+ person full-stack org (mobile, web, backend). Shipped features that added +$40M additional revenue and +500K additional users and improved security for billions of dollars of assets. Also drove Decentralized Identity research and acquisition integration.
2018-2020
Summify was acquired by Twitter and repurposed as Twitter Email Digest, which added 30M MAU in 2012-2013 (directly attributed to Email Digest). Managed an organization of 30+ engineers, sourced and recruited 20+ engineers from personal network.
2012-2014
I architected and built a scalable and distributed real-time search engine for social media content. The work involved technologies like Amazon Web Services (EC2, S3, SQS, SimpleDB, etc.), Tokyo Tyrant, and Xapian.
2009
I was part of the Google Ad Manager group, where I did experimental testing on several maximum flow algorithms and wrote a research paper called "Solving Maximum Flow Problems on Real-World Bipartite Graphs" with Cliff Stein, the "S" in CLRS. I also prototyped a new feature for Google Ad Manager.
Summer 2008
I was at Microsoft for 12 weeks as an intern for a software developer position. I was part of the Visual Basic group, and together with two other interns we expanded the XNA Framework to include support for Visual Basic.
Summer 2007