Arjuna Del Toso

Engineering (AI | MCP) || FAANGs + Startups || Angel Investor (Climate Change) || Founders: DM me for free tech advice. 🇮🇹🇺🇸

New York City Metropolitan Area

About

My professional mission is to help deeply technical teams find the right balance between technological solutions and company business needs, all through clear communication, genuine understanding, and empathy.

Experience

  • Director of Software Engineering at Learning Pool
    May 2026 - Present · 2 mos

  • Confirm (Full-time · 5 yrs 2 mos)
    • Senior Director of Software Engineering
      Aug 2023 - May 2026 · 2 yrs 10 mos

      Building Confirm AI platform. Integrations with external tools like OpenAI and Anthropic, and custom built solutions for MCP, RAG and AI workflows.

    • Director of Software Engineering
      Jul 2022 - Nov 2023 · 1 yr 5 mos

    • Senior Staff Software Engineer (Engineer #1)
      Apr 2021 - Jun 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos

      LET'S END THE PERFORMANCE REVIEW NIGHTMARE Only Confirm helps people leaders remove the exhaustion, subjectivity, and politics in performance reviews. Make fairer talent decisions, fast.

  • Engineering / RD at TikTok
    Apr 2020 - Apr 2021 · 1 yr 1 mo

    Leading the engineering effort to build Tiktok's global (minus China) Advertising Brand Safety solution.

  • Evensi (San Francisco Bay Area)
    • COO
      Jul 2018 - Nov 2019 · 1 yr 5 mos

      *Main areas of responsibility and activity* 1 - Coordination of operations 2 - Partnerships program 3 - New Investors 4 - Mentorship

    • VP of Engineering
      Aug 2017 - Nov 2019 · 2 yrs 4 mos

      In Evensi we are building the ultimate and easiest platform to ideate, promote, discover, and experience events. Few non technical activities I've started at the company. - define the company's Vision, Mission, and Values - designed the org structure and aligned teams with the business needs - kickstarted communication and self-improvement programs (1:1s, Performance Management, crucial conversations, situational leadership, ...

  • Software Engineer at Instagram
    Mar 2017 - Aug 2017 · 6 mos

    Built the new Instagram API infrastructure for the Site Integrity Team (the first line of defense against spam and platform abuse).