Head of Product Engineering @Gusto
Palo Alto, California
Member of Advisory Board @ BigPanda From August 2013 to August 2015 (2 years 1 month) Advisor @ Tango.me From April 2011 to January 2013 (1 year 10 months) Palo Alto, CASVP of Engineering @ Ooyala (acquired by Telstra) Led Ooyala’s engineering team developing innovative product offering in the online video enablement, analytics, and monetization space. Drove...
Member of Advisory Board @ BigPanda From August 2013 to August 2015 (2 years 1 month) Advisor @ Tango.me From April 2011 to January 2013 (1 year 10 months) Palo Alto, CASVP of Engineering @ Ooyala (acquired by Telstra) Led Ooyala’s engineering team developing innovative product offering in the online video enablement, analytics, and monetization space. Drove innovation through design work, experimentation, and creating space for engineers to pursue their ideas and passions. Set up systems to cultivate small, effective, and autonomous development teams that deliver high performance software quickly and predictable. Integrate software development, operations, quality, and product management to create a cohesive high-performance organization. From May 2010 to January 2013 (2 years 9 months) Mountain View, CADirector of Engineering, Monetization @ Ning Responsible for all of Ning's monetization channels including advertising, premium services, and virtual goods. Building software, services, and business processes that drive Ning's growth and profitability. From September 2009 to April 2010 (8 months) VP of Development (contract) @ Outcome Concept Systems Acted as interim VP of Development. Led the software development group in adopting Scrum and other best practices. Greatly improved the performance and scalability of the new reporting platform, introduced load-testing and performance metrics. Recruited the permanent VP of Development. From June 2009 to September 2009 (4 months) Founder & CEO @ Six Slice Studios Six Slice Studios is a game development studio engaged in building econome - an online business simulation game where players create and run companies while competing with their friends From July 2008 to June 2009 (1 year) Streaming Server Team Leader @ AppStream (Aquired by Symantec) Led a team of 5 software developers, acting both as team leader and lead engineer, designing and implementing the AppStream for Windows™ Streaming Server. The Streaming Server was able to serve up to 2000 concurrent users running up to 50 different desktop applications from a single commodity host From April 2000 to July 2003 (3 years 4 months) Senior Software Engineer @ Tecnomatix Developed infrastructure and applications for PDM (Product Data Management) integration with Tecnomatix products. Took part in architecting the integration framework used in several large-scale projects. Identified and analyzed customer requirements and managed customer relationships through project work From 1997 to 2000 (3 years) Software Engineer @ Mapat Amal Developed educational multimedia software and information-bases for K-12 organizations as a part time job throughout undergraduate studies. Worked in a diverse team with graphic artists, animators and education professionals. Took part in fund-raising, demos and presentations From 1995 to 1997 (2 years) Head of Product Engineering @ Gusto Our mission is to create a world where work empowers a better life.We’re making the most complicated, impersonal business tasks simple and personal. Imagine payroll that brings everyone peace of mind, HR that transforms work into a community, and benefits that help people plan for a better future. That’s what we’re building at Gusto.We were recently voted the #1 place to work in San Francisco. To learn more about life at Gusto, visit gusto.com/careers. We’re hiring in San Francisco, Denver, and New York! San Francisco Bay AreaDirector of Engineering, People Engineering @ Facebook Creating the workplace of the future through people and recruiting products. Making people, managers, HR professionals, and recruiters better by providing insights and products to streamline work and support intelligent data-driven decisions. Leveraging large scale data-sets, data science techniques, and machine learning to scale Facebook and create high-velocity teams.Past: AdTech, LiveRail, Atlas, Native Mobile Advertising, Videos, Video ads. From February 2013 to July 2019 (6 years 6 months) Menlo Park, CASenior Manager, Software Development @ Amazon.com 10/2005 - 7/2008 Sr. Manager, Retail Customer ExperienceLed eight teams of 50 engineers, development managers, program managers, and quality assurance engineers. Built key components of Amazon’s retail websites growing sales and improving customer experience. Responsible for Amazon's B2B business, the retail wireless store, launching and running Endless.com, improving the video-games store, and the QA group.8/2003 - 10/2005 Fulfillment Promise 2PTLLed two teams of 14 engineers owning the fulfillment planning area. Responsible for providing ship and delivery estimates for customer orders and for generating optimal execution plans for Amazon’s worldwide supply-chain. From August 2003 to July 2008 (5 years) Adjunct Faculty Member, Computer Science @ The Academic College of Tel Aviv Yaffo Taught undergraduate Computer-Science courses in the fields of software engineering and machine learning. From 1998 to 2001 (3 years)
BigPanda
Member of Advisory Board
August 2013 to August 2015
Tango.me
Advisor
April 2011 to January 2013
Palo Alto, CA
Ooyala (acquired by Telstra)
SVP of Engineering
May 2010 to January 2013
Mountain View, CA
Ning
Director of Engineering, Monetization
September 2009 to April 2010
Outcome Concept Systems
VP of Development (contract)
June 2009 to September 2009
Six Slice Studios
Founder & CEO
July 2008 to June 2009
AppStream (Aquired by Symantec)
Streaming Server Team Leader
April 2000 to July 2003
Tecnomatix
Senior Software Engineer
1997 to 2000
Mapat Amal
Software Engineer
1995 to 1997
Gusto
Head of Product Engineering
San Francisco Bay Area
Director of Engineering, People Engineering
February 2013 to July 2019
Menlo Park, CA
Amazon.com
Senior Manager, Software Development
August 2003 to July 2008
The Academic College of Tel Aviv Yaffo
Adjunct Faculty Member, Computer Science
1998 to 2001
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