Manny de Souza

Engineering Manager

Palo Alto, California, United States22 yrs 4 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led engineering teams at Netflix for asset management.
Improved equity administration processes at Carta.
Automated content publishing at Contentools.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and SaaS expert with strong leadership in engineering management.

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Skills

Core Skills

StrategyLeadershipBusiness RequirementsBusiness DevelopmentSoftware ArchitectureSystems ThinkingProject ManagementTeam LeadershipGame Development

Other Skills

Product DevelopmentTeam BuildingStakeholder ManagementTeam ManagementCross-functional Team LeadershipNegotiationMarketingComputer ScienceDistributed SystemsReal-Time Operating Systems (RTOS)Agile MethodologiesSoftware EngineeringProgrammingSoftware DevelopmentScrum

Experience

22 yrs 4 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 9 mos

Average Tenure

4 yrs 11 mos

Current Experience

Netflix

Engineering Manager, Content Fufillment

Jun 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 11 mos · Los Gatos, California, United States · Hybrid

Netflix runs the largest and most interconnected studio ecosystem in the world. I lead the engineering teams that empower hundreds of thousands of vendors working in this ecosystem to fulfill, assess, and guarantee the highest quality and efficiency of assets compared to industry benchmarks.
As the gatekeepers of the long and short-form asset supply chain, we are responsible for Netflix's fulfillment, ingestion, evaluation, and issue discovery platforms. We evolve the way Netflix's partners work to create, promote, and deliver the best content to delight our members with unprecedented quality, cost-effectiveness, and scale.

StrategyBusiness RequirementsProduct DevelopmentTeam BuildingStakeholder ManagementLeadership

Carta

3 roles

Director, Platform Engineering

Jan 2021 – Jun 2021 · 5 mos

Responsible for the strategy for internal tech convergence, building an integration layer for third-party developers through public APIs, as well as connecting nodes through information sharing across Carta's ownership graph.
Established and owned the relationship with key external partners and vendors integrating technology with Carta's equity ecosystem.
Integral part of the talent strategy supporting the overall platform organization as well as Carta's promotion and hiring committees. Cultural ambassador helping to run Carta's internal mentorship program alongside other executives.

Director, Private Markets Engineering

Promoted

Oct 2019 – Dec 2020 · 1 yr 2 mos

Director of Engineering serving the Governance and Private Markets orgs.
Responsible for the strategy behind Carta's equity platform reliability, managing the cap table product, financings, holdings, scenario modeling, and equity transactions for private companies, as well as growing a bench of leaders for each respective domain.

Business RequirementsTeam BuildingTeam ManagementStakeholder ManagementCross-functional Team LeadershipSystems Thinking+1

Senior Manager, Company Experience & Implementations Engineering

Sep 2016 – Oct 2019 · 3 yrs 1 mo

Managing the Company Experience, Implementations, and Securities (Equity) teams. Improved and streamlined the equity administration experience in Carta's core product including the securities and derivatives ledgers, bulk edit and import user interfaces and APIs, employee onboarding and termination flows, online and offline exercise flows, cashless exercise, transfer of stock, buy-back and repurchase flows, support to fractional shares, as well as the core capitalization table systems.

Business RequirementsTeam BuildingTeam ManagementSystems ThinkingLeadership

Contentools inc.

Chief Technology Officer

Jan 2015 – Sep 2016 · 1 yr 8 mos · San Francisco, CA

Accelerated by 500 Startups (Batch 12), Contentools automated the content editorial and publishing processes at scale. As their technical executive, I was in charge of product requirements, service stack, software architecture, and growing a small team of ten engineers. That was a very fun experience to help run a small statup again after coming from managing a team of hundred plus.

Business RequirementsTeam BuildingTeam ManagementNegotiationLeadershipMarketing