San Francisco Bay Area
Seasoned Technology leader with a track record of building high-performing engineering and product teams, and high-scale products that impact 100s millions of users. I've worked in both startups and large companies and have been a part of end-to-end organizational development from bootstrapping, raising capital, building teams, developing products, and M&As. Experienced in consumer products, ads, payments, distributed systems, and growing teams and leaders across distributed sites.
Rippling is a modern platform that eliminates the friction of running a business globally. Our mission is to free smart people to work on hard problems. I lead the HR and Finance Cloud Engineering overseeing a suite of products across HR Management, Talent, Benefits, Workforce Management, Global Payroll and Payments domains. https://www.rippling.com/products/hr https://www.rippling.com/products/payroll
Led the core Rider engineering, responsible for the flagship Uber app including all the core experiences and platforms: - Consumer Experience: Uber's super app bet to help our consumers plan, discover and engage more with Uber. https://www.fastcompany.com/90520293/exclusive-inside-ubers-billion-dollar-bet-to-deliver-food-people-and-everything-else - Rider Experience: Creating a fast, effective, reliable and delightful way to ride. - Rider Platform: Mobile and backend frameworks to accelerate product development, and increase the overall reliability of our flagship Uber apps
- Bootstrapped Uber's SuperApp bet: transforming Uber app from a ride-first service into a daily needs product, ultimately helping consumers go anywhere & get anything https://www.fastcompany.com/90409090/uber-radically-redesigns-its-app-to-remind-you-that-uber-eats-exists - Core ridesharing products & flows in the Uber app - Product recommendations: contextual, personalized suggestions about the best way to get from point A to point B; and drives revenue/growth of transportation bets https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/18/uber-recommendations/ - Consumer messaging products In the past, led Rider Growth engineering: products and infrastructure to drive explosive rider growth while making transportation more social http://tcrn.ch/2hTz2c6 and https://mashable.com/article/uber-app-redesign
InMobi was India’s first unicorn and one of the world’s largest independent mobile advertising platforms, reaching 1.4B+ users globally and backed by KPCB and SoftBank. Led product strategy and execution for InMobi’s mobile video and rich-media advertising business, operating at the intersection of product, engineering, and go-to-market. Led a global team of 70+ engineers, product managers, designers, and marketers across 7 regions to launch and scale video ad products for app developers, brands, and publishers. Grew video ad revenue 2.2x YoY while improving core marketplace and user-experience metrics, including conversion rates, render performance, playback reliability, and global ad-load latency. Also led InMobi Studio, the company’s rich-media creative platform, expanding usage across 4 business units while improving platform efficiency and performance for ads served across a 1B+ user network
Led engineering for several foundational product and platform initiatives during InMobi’s rapid global scale-up, including real-time app analytics, ad formats, mobile payments, and advertiser measurement. Built and scaled distributed systems processing billions of daily events across 1B+ users, launched platforms used by 1,000+ apps, helped scale interstitial ad revenue by 12x, and led mobile payments infrastructure supporting 1M+ daily transactions across 10 countries
Lifeblob was an early social timeline and photo-sharing platform that helped users connect through people, places, interests, and memories. Lifeblob was acquired by Printo in 2011. As CTO and Co-Founder, I led technology, architecture, product execution, and engineering hiring from inception through acquisition. I built and led the engineering team, owned the technical roadmap across web, social integrations, and commerce, and led full-stack development for Lifeblob’s core social timeline product, including rich photo experiences across web, Facebook, and MySpace apps. I was also deeply involved in product strategy, user experience, growth, fundraising, partnerships, and the technology platform for Printo’s photo-merchandising store, including a multi-product configuration engine for personalized photo products.
Architected Trilogy's first analytical engine to identify and target potential car buyers across non-automotive sites