Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 · 2 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

Jan 2019 – Jan 2024 · 5 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

• Engineering leader for the business division responsible for all the Fintech Core Services at Coinbase:
• Identity: Login and Signup, Authorization, Authentication, Multi Factor Authentication, Trust&Safety, Users Settings, Account Takeovers and Account Recovery
• Compliance and Regulatory: KYC, KYB, AML, Geo-restrictions & Assets Geo-fencing, TRUST & Travel Rules, IDV/Identity Verification, OFAC Sanctions
• Onboarding: Product Onboarding for Retail and Business customers
• Payments: Payments Platform, Payments Rails (Credit/Debit Cards, Banking Rails, Virtual Rails, Apple Pay/Google Pay/Paypal, Payments Processors), Payments UX, Instant Payments, Coinbase Fees, Remittance, Commerce and Coinbase Pay
• Risk: ATO Risk, Credit Risk, Payments Risk & Anti-Fraud, KYT, Transfer Limits
• Financial Infrastructure: Ledger, Financial Accounts, Balances, Assets Custody, Assets Transfers, Positions, Tax & Accounting
• Trading: Crypto Trading Primitives, Trading Services and Trading Infrastructure
• I am leading and driving the engineering efforts to rearchitect Coinbase into microservices, distributed mesh/edge services and a multi-region platform.

Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 · 3 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

• Led backoffice and mid-office technology (HR, PR, Compliance, Finance, Legal) for Citadel and Citadel Securities
• Provision of executive-level leadership to a department of cross-functional employees comprised of product managers, designers, engineers and engineering managers, data scientists, and site reliability engineers (SREs)
• Design, development, and execution of a Competitive and Data Intelligence program, aimed to provided alpha for trading and front-office
• Deployment of a “cloud-first” roadmap in support of the organization’s transition of non-trading activities from privately owned data centers
• Employment of SRE practices in the organization associated with monitoring, SLOs, incident management, retrospectives, release management, operations, secrets management, disaster recovery, and paging automation

Jan 2011 – Jan 2016 · 5 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area, US

• CTO/CPO and CoFounder of Gild - https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/gild
• Raised $36M in venture capital rounds (seed, A, B) and grew the company to 160 employees
• Management of product strategy, technology, and customer success initiatives
• Responsibility for product strategy and development focused on expanding original product scope into a full big data platform for human resources
• Developed a crawling engine to retrieve data from over 2 billion profiles from GitHub, Stack Overflow, LinkedIn, Facebook, Indeed, Google Code, Quora, Meetup, AngelList, Google+, and more than 300 other communities
• Developed machine learning and AI systems to deduplicate, stack rank and match applicants to the most appropriate employer
• Development of the original product that was used by more than 10,000 enterprises, such as Amazon, Google, Facebook, RedHat, Spotify, Uber, IBM, Salesforce, and Netflix
• Developed of a state of the art search engine to enable recruiters effectively select candidates matching their requirements
• Attainment of continuous global press coverage, such as from the business cover of The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/technology/how-big-data-is-playing-recruiter-for-specialized-workers.html)

Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 · 1 yr · Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• Oversight of all aspects of product development, which included formulating the original concept for the company product, bootstrapping the company, marketing the product, and managing customer support activities.
• Conceptualization of a solution to optimize the screening of software engineers based on solving open-ended coding challenges
• Key inputs in growing the company to 12 employees without generating any external capital. Acquired by PacLabs in July 2011

Jan 2008 – Jan 2010 · 2 yrs · Dusseldorf, Germany

• Strategic direction of product development, from product design to launch
• Supervision of several engineering teams in the design, development, and deployment of Vodafone 360, the first mobile social media platform from the company, which entailed making the back-end of the platform and bootstrapping the first internal Mobile Development Team
• Major contribution to the growth of the internal development team, from 5 to 25 employees, as well as third-party engineering contractors from 50 to 180
• Administration of mergers and acquisitions technical due diligence process that led , the acquisition of Zyb.com, Wayfinder, New Bamboo, and Jibe; and collaboration with the acquired companies to incorporate their solutions into the Vodafone 360 product/platform
• Management of third-party vendors, such as Samsung and Blackberry in providing custom-branded smartphones to be sold in Vodafone 360 store

Jan 2007 – Jan 2008 · 1 yr

Jan 2006 – Jan 2008 · 2 yrs

Jan 2005 – Jan 2005 · 0 mo · Helsinki, Finland

Jan 2004 – Jan 2004 · 0 mo · Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States