Oct 2024 – Present · 1 yr 6 mos · New York, New York, United States · Hybrid

• $10M fund investing in pre-seed US technology companies, with the simple thesis of focusing on success. Historically, about a third of my serious bets resulted in large, successful, resilient companies.
• Portfolio company highlight: https://ando.work/

Mar 2019 – Present · 7 yrs 1 mo · New York City Metropolitan Area · On-site

• Google Alumni group (33,000+): co-chair of the NYC chapter. Hosted dozens of events, some large, some intimate, all fun.

Mar 2019 – Apr 2023 · 4 yrs 1 mo

• CVS is streamlining the US healthcare system and unlike many participants, CVS is positioned to succeed when patients and providers have better experiences.
• I was brought in to advise on a range of aspects from healthcare applications, data, algorithms, databases, interoperability, internetworking and cloud computing and vendor relationships.

Sep 2018 – Mar 2021 · 2 yrs 6 mos

• Staff engineer helping Mike Stonebraker's Kyrix database research group. Focus on scaling, DevOps and algorithms. Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, Docker, Postgres 12 incl PostGIS, Java, Citus.
• Also, various commercial consulting projects to research and evaluate database systems. Linux, C.

Apr 2016 – May 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Byte provides fresh, healthy food 24x7 using internet-connected (IoT) refrigerators in workplaces, using RFID tags to self-scan for billing and inventory depletion. I was Byte's "first year CTO" and focused the go-to-market strategy, helped execute the merger with Pantry, managed product, engineering & IT, and helped grow the company 500%, including fundraising, custom IoT hardware and tricky demand planning algorithms.

Jan 2013 – Sep 2024 · 11 yrs 8 mos

• Advise high potential, early stage projects and startups from inception to growth phase:
• intrapreneurship mentor for Siemens (C), NEC (C), CVS Health (C).
• B2B2C hardware and food: Liquid View virtual windows (I,A); Kiwibot food delivery robots (I,A); Spiio environmental sensors (I,A)
• enterprise data & code: Massive computation network (A,I,C); Hopara data visualization (A,I); Quilt data storage (A); CVS Health (C); led tech due diligence on EnterpriseDB acquisition (C)
• fintech & crypto: PayJoy lending (C,I); Massive web monetization (I,A); global scale cloud-based cryptocurrency network (C)
• key: A=advisor,I=investor,C=consultant

Jul 2010 – Sep 2016 · 6 yrs 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Buyer's Best Friend (BBF, bbfdirect.com/snacks) provides the free snacks seen in 100s of silicon valley companies. Previously, BBF launched as the world's largest catalog of innovative food and personal care products with over 150,000 items from 3,000 companies, used by 17,000 groceries, retailers and etailers to source new products.
• I founded BBF with Joyce Guan, a well-known bay area food broker, and built the internal and external IT and business systems. We sold BBF to Daiohs (Blue Tiger Coffee) in 2017, and Joyce and I managed the successful sale, transition and wind down. All parties were pleased with the merger.

May 2009 – Oct 2009 · 5 mos

• https://allforgood.org/, a 100% open source, open database for organizing US volunteer opportunities. Joint venture with Craigslist Foundation, US government and many famous non-profits including Sierra Club, Girl Scouts and more. I led backend development, and advised on legal, privacy and partnership issues. Python, Google App Engine.

Nov 2004 – Nov 2009 · 5 yrs

• Designed, implemented and evangelized Google Gadgets, the app plugin system used by Google's homepage, maps, ads, gmail, websearch, various IBM products and over 1 million websites. Gadgets was a top 10 public service for Google, and became #1 in its category, competing with equivalent products from Apple, Yahoo!, Microsoft and two well-funded startups. C++, HTML, JavaScript. https://developers.google.com/gadgets/?hl=en

Apr 2005 – Jun 2011 · 6 yrs 2 mos

• served on SenSage's board - see below for details

Nov 2000 – Jul 2004 · 3 yrs 8 mos

• SenSage was the first company to deliver a columnar SQL database. 250+ customers used Sensage to warehouse enterprise event data to mitigate insider threats, implement log management, meet regulatory compliance requirements, and maintain system availability.

Apr 1999 – Oct 2000 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Led the server engineering team, including software development and 24x7 Internet operations for 100+ partners, including eBay where hosted all of their product photos.

Jan 1998 – Mar 1999 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Federated SQL databases used to integrate data across an enterprise, acquired by PeopleSoft in 201. Member of the core C++ server team and led metadata management, i.e. the database about the database.

Jan 1996 – Jan 1998 · 2 yrs

• Inktomi was the #1 search engine before Google. Inktomi's first employee.

Jun 1995 – Aug 1995 · 2 mos

• Spent a summer working with the language and database gurus at MS Research.

Jan 1992 – Jan 1992 · 0 mo