Pieter de Zwart

Director, Advertising Engineering

Irvine, California, United States

About

Strong product-focused and technically savvy leader and manager. Extensive experience working with customers and stakeholders to develop industry-leading products and bringing them to market. Experience operating high volume (hundreds of billions per day), low latency, globally distributed architectures hosting on-premise, in AWS and in GCP. Strong preference toward working with customers, stakeholders and competitors to define and evolve multi-billion dollar industries Adept at building organizations, teams and individuals, as well as bringing together teams, products and codebases from mergers and acquisitions. Goals: Meet and work with like-minded individuals. Build and lead cross-functional organizations to tackle challenging problems. Experience with: Cloud hosting (AWS & GCP), On-prem, Scala, Java, Go, PHP, Javascript, Bash, Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, Docker, MySQL, Aerospike, Cassandra.

Experience

  • Director, Advertising Engineering at Amazon
    Nov 2022 - Present · 3 yrs 8 mos

  • Member at LA CTO Forum
    Sep 2019 - Present · 6 yrs 10 mos

    The LA CTO Forum is a vibrant, private, invite only network of 250+ CTOs that meets once a month in Santa Monica. This is an amazing group of the top technical minds in Los Angeles and I’m proud to be part of its success. More at: www.lactoforum.org. As a member, I assist the LA Startup Ecosystem by providing help to startups and VCs as as a Technical Adviser and Technical Consultant.

  • Chief Technology Officer at Verve Group
    Jan 2021 - Nov 2022 · 1 yr 11 mos

    Responsible for all Engineering, Project Management and QA functions within Verve Group in the US, Europe and Asa. Operate multiple Ad Servers, Exchanges, DSPs and Audience Platforms which process 300+B impressions per day across 10+ point-of-presence locations across the globe.

  • Advisor at Blockthrough
    Nov 2020 - Nov 2022 · 2 yrs 1 mo

    Blockthrough is the market leader in adblock revenue recovery and the world's most user-centric advertising technology company. We help publishers monetize their adblock users in a respectful way. Helped with M&A due diligence, coaching, recruiting, leading to a successful exit through acquisition by eyeo Gmbh.

  • SVP, Engineering at Nexstar Digital
    Oct 2019 - Jan 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos

    Responsible for Engineering, DevOps, TechOps and QA of portfolio asset within Nexstar Digital. Building and promoting multiple global strategies to grow Nexstar Digital subsidiary within the broader Nexstar Media organization.