New York, New York, United States
Passionate technologist & a senior leader enabling technical teams to innovate and deliver in fast-paced and financially prudent environments. Strong technical background and extensive experience in leading global teams of software engineers, infrastructure & quality assurance engineers. Areas of Expertise: • Technical Leadership: architecture, business, vision & implementation • Building strong & meaningful partnerships with Business, Product Management & Vendors • Agile Methodologies intertwined with Project & Program Management • Evangelizing emerging technologies & trends Highlights: At SoundCloud, I am part of the executive team as well as the Managing Director of European Operations based in Berlin. I lead all of engineering including Creator, Listener, Platform, Data Science and Infrastructure. My team is 170+ and one of the most visible consumer engineering teams in Europe. In various periods throughout my 3 year tenure, I also played an important product leadership role. At Yahoo, I led NYC, Sunnyvale and London teams. At first I ran mobile pods for products like Yahoo! Finance, Screen, Fantasy Soccer and Celebrity. Later I took on engineering for the entire Finance product, one of the crown jewels of Yahoo! with 200M MAUs and the leading finance retail consumer brand in the world. At Huge, led a large, global engineering team delivering experiences and products for world’s premiere brand names. I work with the executive team on setting strategic technical vision, internal delivery standards and processes. In addition to strategic & operational modes, I make it a point to stay close to all architecture & stack decisions as well as evangelize new technology. At Thomson Reuters, I was the Global Head of Media Technology responsible for the worldwide Reuters content distribution: text, pictures and broadcast video. Drove a major initiative to comprehensively introduce High Def Video. Managed large-scale distribution platforms as well as the supporting capabilities like Ingestion, Search, Entitlements & Analytics engines. Built a cloud-based white label web content management system and used it to host the Reuters Olympics 2012 web & mobile coverage. Prior to leading Media, fully revamped the News infrastructure behind Thomson Reuters Financial & Risk offerings like Eikon, Thomson One & Xtra: global, real-time ingest, store & search capability.
Leading 2,000+ people across Product, Design, Engineering, Data and PMO. Together we focus on building products like the Wall Street Journal, Barron's, MarketWatch, IBD, Factiva, Risk and Compliance, Newswires, OPIS and more.
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I lead the Content Experience organization which is responsible for the entire home surface of LinkedIn, the feed and all content types within it (posts, videos, images, articles, newsletters, polls and more) 🏠 is also home to Stories, Sharebox, Comments and reactions. The org supports core Monetization experiences and shared client frameworks. Content Experience is 300 folks working across New York and California. In addition to Home, I also lead the 350+ person NYC R&D site which hosts teams from other large orgs like AI, Data Science, Marketing Services, SRE and Foundations.
Chief Technology Officer and Managing Director of European operations. Leading end-to-end technology for the largest music and audio platform in the world with 200 million tracks and counting. My 200+ person organization includes: consumer engineering for Creators and Listeners, Platform, Data Science, Engineering Experience and Infrastructure teams. We’re passionate about solving challenging technical, product and business problems at a massive scale and drive innovation and differentiation in an exciting industry.