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## Head of Engineering @ Series C financial services data startup, sold for ~$300M in early 2022
_2018 to present_
- I run a team of ~60, with 7 EMs/sr EM direct reports, reporting to new boss who is overall CTO (ex-FAANG VP). Responsible for all of engineering within our BU (several product engineering teams, data science, SRE, infosec)
- I'm on our startup's founding team & executive team, so also helped build company out to 200+ ppl w/CEO, recruited other key XFN leaders, significant role in fundraising & board management, had biggest role in M&A/selling the company outside of CEO (everything from pitching to diligence, etc.)
- Eng team built multiple 0-to-1 products driving over $30M in ARR (one flagship product), scaled top-line by 60x within 4 years after first year of finding PMF
- Improved customer sentiment of our products compared to industry, NPS is more than 2x competitors and most companies in our space.


## Product @ FAANG
_2016 to 2018_
- Diverged a bit from earlier path, wanted to see what product was like
- Managed several products related to search & data quality
- won't go into details, but had impact that spanned meaningful %-age of userbase for one core product

## Engineering Manager @ very well known consumer product
_2012 to 2015_
- was early engineer at well known consumer company, working on growth engineering
- grew to manage a team of ~8
- directly responsible for increasing top-line metric by ~50x
- built lots of instrumentation for analytics / growth measurement
- also built: onboarding flow, invite ranking, email invite flows, and more
- worked on integration with a very large strategic partner


## before this
- early IC at 2 small startups, which range from small (9-figure acquisition) to large (category defining consumer app)


## school
- went to ivy league uni for CS & physics