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🎼 Joseph Perla 🎶

CEO

San Francisco, California, United States13 yrs experience

AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

Led AI integration for global music service.
Increased Lyft's passenger growth rate by 5X.
Built and scaled multiple successful startups.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and AI-focused technology leader with extensive startup experience.

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Skills

Core Skills

Mobile DevelopmentAi IntegrationAutonomous VehiclesMachine LearningGrowth StrategyProduct ManagementStartup DevelopmentCloud Infrastructure

Other Skills

ReactReact NativeNodeJSDeep LearningSLAMiOS DevelopmentAndroid DevelopmentBackend DevelopmentFundingTeam BuildingTeam LeadershipProduct Launchinvisibilityx-ray visionmind reading

About

Joseph Perla is a recognized leader in technology in San Francisco, helping to lead companies like Facebook and Lyft to continue exponential growth. Joseph studied computer science, philosophy, economics, and art history. Former Facebook tech lead and serial entrepreneur. Highly technical hands-on senior manager with full-stack mobile, infrastructure, web, autonomous vehicle, and data-driven growth experience. Proven ability to build teams, train managers, innovate new technology, and deliver product. Specialties: entrepreneurship, project management, recruiting, strategy, business planning, systems architecture, advanced algorithm design and coding, business models, venture capital, fundraising, incubators, mentoring, advising. Languages: Python, Ruby, Java, Scala, Haskell, C#, .NET, PHP, Obj-C/iPhone/iPad/iOS, C, CSS, Javascript/AJAX/jQuery Frameworks: Rails, Django, Weby, XCode, Cocoa Systems: Linux (Debian-based), Solr, Nginx, HAProxy, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Apache Fluent in German, Spanish, and French

Experience

13 yrs

Total Experience

1 yr 6 mos

Average Tenure

3 mos

Current Experience

Turntable.ai, inc

President

Jan 2026 – Present · 3 mos · Miami, Florida, United States · Remote

Led mobile-first cross-platform iOS, Android, mobile web, web and backend team. React and React Native with NodeJS backend. Launched first global music service with full AI music integration.
https://turntable.ai/
https://jperla.com/blog/suno-walking-dead

ReactReact NativeNodeJSMobile DevelopmentAI Integration

Startx

Summer 2025 Cohort

Apr 2025 – Mar 2026 · 11 mos · Stanford, California, United States · Hybrid

Hangout

CEO

Jan 2025 – Oct 2025 · 9 mos

http://Hangout.fm/ hang out online with music

Lyft

2 roles

Machine Learning: Level 5 Autonomous Vehicles

Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 · 1 yr · San Francisco Bay Area

Autonomous self-driving vehicle safety, localization, SLAM, routing, ETAs, autonomous safety, Machine Learning & Deep Learning.

Machine LearningDeep LearningSLAMAutonomous Vehicles

Senior Manager: Passenger Acquisition / Growth

Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 · 3 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

Led cross-functional full-stack team on iOS, Android, and mobile web as well as backend. Launched the Round Up & Donate brand strategy feature, as well as Lyft Gift Cards. Responsible for Passenger Acquisition. Helped build out the new Growth Org, including managing Driver Growth as well, and increased passenger growth rate 5X+. In charge of Passenger Acquisition during biggest growth period from 8 to 33% market share vs Uber (2 to 22 million MAU).

iOS DevelopmentAndroid DevelopmentBackend DevelopmentGrowth StrategyProduct Management

Plato

Plato Mentor - Engineering Leadership

Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 · 1 yr · San Francisco Bay Area

Plato (www.platohq.com) is a network of experienced engineering leaders, assembled to help other engineering leaders find their perfect mentor for their management/leadership challenges

Terminal.com (cloudlabs, inc)

Co-Founder

Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 · 1 yr · San Francisco Bay Area

After investing early, I worked with the founder to source and close an additional $4.2MM in funding. We built a team of 10 engineers and launched a new, fast public cloud, which has reached over 100,000 Terminal initializations and continues to grow. We were acquired by Udacity.

Facebook

Tech Lead, News Feed for iPhone

Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 · 1 yr · Menlo Park

I worked with the people manager to build and lead a team of 7 engineers to launch a successful redesign of the News Feed on iOS that significantly increased usage. I also helped with leadership of the autoplay videos team (which had engineers in both SF and London) and we launched videos within the News Feed on all mobile platforms.

FundingTeam BuildingStartup DevelopmentCloud Infrastructure

Turntable (tt.fm) — ttfm labs

Co-Founder / VP of Technology

Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 · 1 yr · New York, NY

The site streamed over a million songs per day at its peak.

Team LeadershipProduct LaunchMobile DevelopmentProduct Management

Labmeeting, inc

Co-Founder, CTO

Jan 2007 – Jan 2010 · 3 yrs · Palo Alto, CA

I architected, built, and led a team of 2 engineers to build this social network and document management tool for scientists, funded by Peter Thiel. The site reached over 500,000 unique visitors a month at its peak.

Zandigo

Co-Founder

Jan 2005 – Jan 2007 · 2 yrs

I architected, built, and led a team of 3 engineers to build the first version of this social network for college students. Became Zinch. Eventually acquired by Chegg.