Sep 2017 – Feb 2020 · 2 yrs 5 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Cloudflare protects and accelerates more than 20M websites, apps, and services using a global network of close to 200 data centers. I'm responsible for our data products, which provide customers with security and performance insights and help them fix problems before their users notice. Our data infrastructure is one of the world's largest, processing more than 11M requests per second.
• My products include (several of these I've driven from scratch and then popularized with Cloudflare product teams to shorten time required to expose new data and maintain a consistent user experience):
• Push and pull services for receiving raw logs for various products, integrated with popular third-party platforms: https://developers.cloudflare.com/logs/
• Analytics dashboards and a GraphQL-based API to facilitate data exploration and building custom dashboards: https://developers.cloudflare.com/analytics/
• A usage platform that provides billing metrics for metered products

May 2015 – Sep 2017 · 2 yrs 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Part of a small team creating a crowdsourcing marketplace, enabling customers (e.g., IBM, Comcast, NASA) to work with a million-member community of designers, developers, and data scientists. As part of Appirio, we were funded by Sequoia Capital, General Atlantic, GGV Capital, and others, and recently acquired by Wipro in a $500M deal
• Head of customer products, leading Connect (connect.topcoder.com), a new application for customer teams to easily create projects and collaborate with our community with minimal operational support; growing revenue 15% MoM since launch
• Previously responsible for community products, defining strategy and roadmap, and managing releases; led work on new listings and launched Member Search, growing adoption 245% and engagement 375% YoY
• Launched new account products (Login, Registration, Password Reset, Settings), as part of infrastructure migration, merging 10 Login/Reg routes and helping grow new users 6% and active users 20%, over a quarter

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

• Part of standalone group creating new businesses for eBay by applying emerging technologies and entering new markets. Incubated ideas, pitched for resources, and rapidly tested
• Prototyped and shipped several products, assessing market opportunity, defining user experience and product roadmap, and collaborating with external partners; led cross-functional teams
• Explored machine vision, new forms of crowdsourcing, predictive modeling, activity tracking, wearables, mobile, and novel uses of JavaScript
• Developed team BD strategy, meeting with 20+ experts and identifying top trends; built 3 startup partnerships

Jan 2011 – Jan 2014 · 3 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

• Ran and supported numerous long-term growth strategy initiatives spanning eBay, Inc. (Marketplaces, PayPal, eBay Enterprise, and smaller units), working with CEO, CFO, and senior unit leaders
• Led corporate efforts to discover and connect with internet startups (along with investors), helping them build eBay relationships; reviewed ~350 companies annually, meeting with ~60
• Led on-campus MBA recruiting for 3 main strategy teams, growing applications 20% across 6-school program

Jan 2006 – Jan 2010 · 4 yrs · London, Moscow, Dallas

• As part of small project teams, worked with leading companies to develop strategies, optimize operations, and implement initiatives
• Established Moscow office, as one of first three experienced staff

Jan 2004 – Jan 2005 · 1 yr · San Francisco

• Created and executed distribution strategy for $100 million clothing department, collaborating with distribution team and cross-functional partners

Jan 2000 – Apr 2002 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Palo Alto

• Worked in numerous roles for several early-stage startups focused on real-time merchandising and performance evaluation