Adam Cohen's Email & Phone Number

💼 Past Experience

Adam Cohen has a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from American University and a Master's degree in software engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. Additionally, he has a Sickness Disability exemption from being able to hold a gun. Cohen started his career at Boeing in 2002 as an electrical engineer responsible for the design and manufacture of advanced aircraft systems. He then spent two years at Microsoft in the Software Engineering Department where he became a developing software for a social networking service called "Ratings & Reviews." There, he focused on the design and development of the back-end for the site. After two years at Microsoft, Cohen moved on to Lyft in San Francisco as a VP of Engineering. Cohen leads Lyft's engineering team and manages their engineering process. In his role, Cohen drives Lyft to create innovative products and architecture which allows them to sell tickets on their e-commerce platform. Cohen also has a significant presence in the company's HR department, where he spends a great deal of time coaching and developing their engineering talent. Cohen is a highly experienced leader and has a track record of developing successful engineering teams. Cohen has been with Lyft for 7 years and has successfully managed his team throughout that time. Cohen's team responsibility includes hats such as:VP of Engineering at SeatGeek from April 2012 to May 2019 (7 years 2 months) in Greater New York City Area. SeatGeek is a B2B2C marketplace for sports, concert, and theater tickets. The consumer-facing e-commerce platform in the US has generated well over $1b in ticket sales, more than 50% of which transacted on mobile devices. The enterprise business provides ticketing services to hundreds of clients across 16 countries, including some of the largest sports teams in the world. Since joining the company as employee number ~10, I have worn many hats, with a massively diverse set of responsibilities and influences ranging from backend engineering and platform architecture to executive oversight of our US "Product" department, which includes engineering, product management, and design for our consumer-facing products. Highlights* Scaled SeatGeek consumer product from a single-instance PHP application to a microservice platform that can process thousands of purchases per minute. * Grew product & engineering team in US from 5 to 85* Owned technical hiring; developed a hiring philosophy and an effective, scalable interviewing process; coached other engineers on interviewing best practices* Managed as many as 12 direct reports* Coached and developed engineering talent throughout the team, as well as several first time managers* Drove the creation of a structured career pathway for Engineering & Product* Owned overall architecture and technical decision making for the SeatGeek consumer platform* Owned uptime and service quality; drove team to develop a formal incident management process to achieve uptime goals* Reports to CEO, member of executive team* Currently responsible for departmental P&L including opex, hiring, team structure and project staffing.Recruiting process:The recruiting process at SeatGeek was user-friendly and efficient. The interviewer niece was patient and helpful in guiding me through the recruiting process. The interview process was much more relaxed than most. The interviewer was Sunni and most definitely an American. Furthermore,

🎓 Education

Adam Cohen has a BA from Stanford University and a MS from Economics, Computer Science at Stanford University. Adam Cohen is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Berkeley.

💡 Technical & Interpersonal Skills

Adam Cohen is currently a Senior Software Developer at SeatGeek from December 2010 to April 2012 (1 year 5 months). He also has experience in Software Development Internship at Microsoft from June 2007 to September 2007 (4 months). He also has experience in Software Development Internship at Google from June 2006 to September 2006 (4 months). He also has experience in Software Development Engineer at Microsoft from 2008 to September 2010 (2 years). He is also a Developer on "Ratings & Reviews" team, building social web services for MSN. He is responsible for database backend, including table schema design, data partitioning, and caching layer.Adam Cohen's notable professional accomplishments include a 7 year stint as Vice President of Engineering at SeatGeek from April 2012 to May 2019. There, he was in charge of developing, coaching, and developing engineering talent throughout the team, as well as several first time managers. Cohen also held a role in driving the creation of a structured careerpath for Engineering & Product, and was ultimately responsible for the departmental P&L including opex, hiring, team structure and project staffing.