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(Mis à jour 2023-04-24)Chief Technology Officer
Los Gatos, CA, USA
Débutant English
- Subject Matter Expert at Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator
- Technical turnarounds, Product Acceleration 2X or better results guaranteed
- Machine Learning Operations
Compétences (25)
SUBJECT MATTER EXPERT
LIFE CYCLE
MTTR
Project Management
PULL REQUEST
B2C
HEALTHCARE
Okta
B2B SOFTWARE
RECRUITING
STRUCTURED SOFTWARE
CONTINUOUS INTEGRATION/DELIVERY
BEST PRACTICES
CADENCE
SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
Continuous Integration
Software Engineering
METRICS
CYCLE TIME
Compounding
WORKFLOW
EXPLORATION
PRODUCT LAUNCH
EMPLOYEE RESOURCE GROUP
OPEN SOURCE
Résumé
Technology executive with over 20 years experience in startup to public offering, small, midsize and global companies running teams responsible for customer-facing product development for B2C, B2B, and healthcare and life sciences, and infrastructure teams responsible for technical platforms, security, privacy, compliance, corporate IT, quality, reliability, and availability
Expérience professionnelle
Founder
Doubling
2021-11 - Actuel
Doubling offers a straightforward, data driven and effective framework to execute fast and lasting technical turnarounds for companies struggling to ship software on-time, and product delivery acceleration for companies experiencing compounding business growth. Leverage our open source runbooks and checklists along with our community, or get dedicated support with our advisory, fractional or interim CTO experts. We will guide your software engineering team through common industry problems like missed delivery deadlines, slowing velocity and worsening quality. Your teams will realize compounding predictability, velocity and quality gains of at least 2X within 90 days.
Member Board of Directors
Savage Jazz Dance Company
2014-06 - Actuel
"The most layered, sophisticated concert jazz dance company in these Western climes." - Dance Magazine Savage Jazz Dance Company is distinguished by its disciplined dancers and instructors, and its dedication to the exploration of jazz music's range of expression. For the young men and women who study dance with Artistic Director/Choreographer Reginald Ray-Savage, the experience offers a rare and unique discipline in not only creative movement and performance but how to be in the world.
Y Combinator
2021-08 - Actuel
Part of an advisory group to help founders and executives learn from other leaders in their field. Share perspectives and experiences supporting the up-and-coming entrepreneurs within the "Continuity" growth fund, which focuses on the top 1% of Y Combinator mid-later stage investment portfolio (ex. Boom, Brex, Faire, Coinbase, Stripe).
Steezy
2021-11 - Actuel
We're making dance the next big global sport. Steezy Studio is a world-class studio experience at scale with a mission to make dance accessible to everyone, starting with online dance classes with the world's best instructors. Beginners can start learning with no experience, and seasoned dancers can practice new techniques and choreography. We believe that anyone can be a great dancer - with the right resources and support.
Subject Matter Expert
Andreessen Horowitz
2022-08 - Actuel
Subject Matter Expert for technical turnarounds and product delivery acceleration at Andreessen Horowitz (known as "a16z"), a venture capital firm that backs bold entrepreneurs building the future through technology. We are stage agnostic: We invest in seed to venture to late-stage technology companies, across bio + healthcare, consumer, crypto, enterprise, fintech, games, and companies building toward American dynamism. a16z has $35B in assets under management across multiple funds.
Investor
Investor
Vice President, Engineering
Project Ronin
2020-05 - 2021-10
Responsible for engineering, security, privacy, compliance, technical program and project management, corporate information technology and business operations groups. Key outcomes include: Technical Turn Around ● Within 4 months, launched a major new product that was 16 months late with no understanding of when it would be ready when I arrived ● Increased predictability from 5% delivery of sprint plan to 90% average within first 3 months ● Increased on-time feature delivery from 0% to 96% within second quarter ● Increased deployment velocity over 600% from deployment every three weeks to multiple times a day in 2020 ● Increased development velocity of average cycle time of pull request in git from 40 days to .5 days in 2020 ● Improved quality from 180% change fail by deployment (number of deployments requiring hotfix or bugfix) down to 6% over 4 quarters ● Improved quality from 0% code coverage to 80% ● Decreased MTTR by 800% ● Reduced compute costs from 75 - 90% with cloud agnostic nodeless kubernetes Acceleration of Performance and Hiring ● Defined and rolled out career levels within engineering; engineering sentiment improvement across 92% of engagement points quarter over quarter ● Defined and rolled out streamlined, standardized interview process; decreased time to hire from 40 days to 28 days ● Improved quality of hire from 25% non-regretted attrition to 0% non-regretted attrition Business Differentiation ● Massive investment in test automation, monorepo, infrastructure as code, feature flags for real continuous deployment ● Launched cutting edge delta lake data platform for batch and streaming data ingestion ● Architected and directed cloud agnostic platform allowing for best in industry IAAS and PAAS usage across cloud vendors ● Oversaw patent submission for "N of 1" cancer treatment insights via machine learning Director, Software Development Box, Redwood City, CA
60 person organization dedicated to building software applications
Enterprise Engineering
2018-03 - 2019-08
for information technology, security and compliance officers responsible for their corporate Box deployment.
Product verticals in my portfolio included security products (defense in depth, multi-factor authentication, watermarking, anomalous behavior), governance (retention and deletion policies and metadata), insights and reporting (business analytics), relay (workflow automation), and enterprise management (administrative portal). Resolved critical hiring and retention issues with a radical hiring program leveraging pooled hiring, engineering manager engagement, and new sourcing vendors. Grew the organization by 144% and filled all open headcount for 2018 in less than three months. Created a company wide runbook on hiring and retention. Moved all teams within my org from unhealthy to healthy execution with 22% increased velocity.
Product verticals in my portfolio included security products (defense in depth, multi-factor authentication, watermarking, anomalous behavior), governance (retention and deletion policies and metadata), insights and reporting (business analytics), relay (workflow automation), and enterprise management (administrative portal). Resolved critical hiring and retention issues with a radical hiring program leveraging pooled hiring, engineering manager engagement, and new sourcing vendors. Grew the organization by 144% and filled all open headcount for 2018 in less than three months. Created a company wide runbook on hiring and retention. Moved all teams within my org from unhealthy to healthy execution with 22% increased velocity.
Senior Engineering Manager
Uber
2015-07 - 2018-03
Beginning with 1 engineer, built an 80 person organization called "Security Research and Development", a software engineering group focused on making security achievable for the 10,000+ person software engineering organization at Uber via highly secure libraries, services and frameworks for things like identity and access management, authentication, authorization, privacy, compliance, insider threat detection and more.
Cultural Achievements include the highest cultural survey ratings in my organization, launch of the Apprenticeship Program, a gateway for talented, hard-working people with nontraditional technical backgrounds, and launch of UberBOOST, a program to help people reach the next level of efficiency for optimal growth at work. My organization rated highest in diversity with 50% of engineers from underrepresented groups. Bar Raiser executive sponsor (review and advise on hiring best practices). LadyEng
Cultural Achievements include the highest cultural survey ratings in my organization, launch of the Apprenticeship Program, a gateway for talented, hard-working people with nontraditional technical backgrounds, and launch of UberBOOST, a program to help people reach the next level of efficiency for optimal growth at work. My organization rated highest in diversity with 50% of engineers from underrepresented groups. Bar Raiser executive sponsor (review and advise on hiring best practices). LadyEng
TripleByte
2018-01 - 2018-01
● 2017 Interview - Hydrogen: Inspiring Business Women ● 2015 Keynote - Selenium Conference: Curing Imposter Syndrome
executive sponsor (employee resource group for women in technology)
Panelist at Grace Hopper
2016-01 - 2016-01
Senior Manager, Engineering
Salesforce
2014-03 - 2015-07
Delivered massively scalable test automation and continuous integration systems for exhaustive client runtime permutations. Developers Serviced: 8,000 | Tests Run per Day: 1.5 Million | Major Product Lines: 30+
Engineering Super-Group
2015-01 - 2015-01
Meetup - Creating the Engineering Super-Group
The Future of Software Quality
2015-01 - 2015-01
Engineering Manager
Okta
2010-11 - 2014-03
Founded and built the developer experience organization (12 people), supporting test automation, continuous integration, and release. Built the automation foundation which powered 100% of product verification for weekly release cadence.
Software Engineer in Test
23andMe
2007-07 - 2009-10
Quality organization of one, zero regressions in production. Weekly release cadence, historically low bug count, zero manual testing, extensive continuous integration system, developer tools focus.
Software Engineer, Test
Netflix
2006-04 - 2007-07
Supported the customer acquisition flow. Executed manual code reviews, leveraged real-time and static analysis tools, designed and implemented automated tests.
Software Engineer
Walmart (.com division)
2000-04 - 2003-05
Designed and implemented web applications for Walmart. Built and maintained the following systems: My Account, Checkout, and the Wireless Kiosk cell phone plan selection and activation software.
Interviews, Presentations, Articles and Organizations
Interviews, Presentations, Articles and Organizations
Parcours scolaire
Stanford University Graduate School of Business
Stanford University Graduate School of Business
2023-04 - 2019-01
Mills College
Mills College
2003-01 - 2006-01