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Ilan Zerbib

Founder

San Francisco, California, United States19 yrs 4 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Founder of multiple successful startups.
  • Expert in building scalable financial technology.
  • Proven leadership in high-impact engineering roles.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and E-commerce expert with strong leadership in software engineering.

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Skills

Core Skills

EntrepreneurshipLeadershipProduct DevelopmentSoftware Development

Other Skills

Software EngineeringProject ManagementSystem ArchitectureTechnical RecruitingProduct LaunchScrapingSecurityNetwork SecurityVulnerability AssessmentChange ManagementWeb DevelopmentGCPData ModelingDatabase DesignJavaScript

Experience

19 yrs 4 mos
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Current Experience

Sapiom

Founder & CEO

Aug 2025Present · 10 mos · San Francisco, California, United States · On-site

  • Sapiom is building a developer-first financial OS that makes it safe and easy for AI agents to transact.
EntrepreneurshipSoftware EngineeringLeadershipProject ManagementSystem ArchitectureTechnical Recruiting

Pef community

Member

Nov 2024Jul 2025 · 8 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Shopify

2 roles

Director of Engineering, Payments

Promoted

Oct 2023Aug 2025 · 1 yr 10 mos · Remote

Leadership

Senior Engineering Manager, Shop Pay & Shop Cash

May 2021Oct 2023 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Remote

  • Led engineering for Shop Pay, Shopify’s highly strategic consumer product, and founded and launched Shop Cash in 2022—a dual-component product introducing a buyer loyalty program, 'Shop Cash Back,' and a sophisticated merchant-focused ads platform, 'Shop Cash Offers.'
Software EngineeringProject ManagementProduct DevelopmentProduct LaunchLeadership

Earny inc. (acquired)

Co-Founder & CTO

Jul 2015May 2021 · 5 yrs 10 mos · Los Angeles, California, United States

  • Earny is a consumer advocate autonomous agent that helps 4.5M shoppers maximize their spending through automatic price protection. (acquired in March 2021).
  • I founded Earny to help users make intelligent shopping decisions by leveraging proprietary price-tracking technology and pricing trends to get automatic refunds on price drop, add items to watchlist, and earn cashback. The company raised $14M in funding (Mayfield, Sweet Capital, Science Inc., Comcast Ventures), received national press coverage (Good Morning America, CNN, Forbes, WSJ, HuffPo, etc.), was named a "Top 50 Startup to Watch" by Business Insider, and the iOS app trended for several weeks as a Top 10 in the finance category.
  • At Earny I built and led the engineering organization, vision, and roadmap.
  • Tech Project highlights:
  • ○ Architected and led build of product from scratch including data structures, datastores with 1PB of data, and scalable distributed systems that supported 4M users, up to 1M new signups per month, and 1.5M MAUs.
  • ○ Led build of a proprietary price tracking technology and infrastructure capable of checking prices of 23M unique items every 30 minutes through scraping at the top 30 US retailers, with 6000 price checks per second and 150M price change detections per month.
  • ○ Built email infrastructure to handle near real-time synchronization of 3M+ inboxes processing 400M+ emails per month and 10000 inbox syncs per second at peak.
  • ○ Developed a unique proprietary scraping technology that accesses over 1M connected Amazon accounts to extract purchasing data in real time.
  • ○ Scaled infrastructure/product to enable parsing of 100M shopping receipts and tracking for 180M purchases ($6B value).
  • ○ Partnered on project with MIT’s Analytics Lab to identify machine learning algorithms to predict optimal time for submitting claims to retailers or credit card issuers.
  • Earny also partnered with Yahoo! Mail, with integration for tens of millions of Yahoo! users.
EntrepreneurshipSoftware EngineeringTechnical RecruitingLeadership

Hashsnap

Co-Founder & CTO

Jul 2014Jul 2015 · 1 yr · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Hashsnap was a relationship app built as a platform for users seeking serious relationships.
  • We identified the market opportunity for a relationship app designed to connect users in an authentic way without superficiality, with the ambitious goal of changing the way users seek real relationships while changing society’s behavior in online dating.
  • I built and led the engineering team and drove product development efforts to go from concept to a functional iOS product in three months. Hands-on work included Swift development, design of the database model and architecture, and writing matching algorithms. Product features included a requirement for taking live photos and videos through the app camera with daily themes embedded into photos.
Software EngineeringProject ManagementSoftware Development

Partymood

Co-Founder & CTO

Jan 2014Jun 2014 · 5 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Partymood was a startup mobile payment and loyalty management system for bars and restaurants.
  • I co-founded Partymood with a mission to enable users to pay for orders table-side and accumulate points on payments that could be converted to free drinks or discounts within a venue network.
  • My work included build of an Android app (and its technical infrastructure and backend) that won first place at the 2013 “Pimp My Ad” challenge organized by Criteo.

Ministère de la défense

Cyber Security Engineer

Sep 2012Jan 2014 · 1 yr 4 mos · Paris

Software EngineeringProject ManagementSoftware Development

Gendarmerie nationale

Reservist in French Gendarmerie (eq. Police)

Apr 2012Jul 2015 · 3 yrs 3 mos

  • Conducted public safety missions and contributed to cybercrime prevention.

Volvo group - renault trucks

Software Engineer

Sep 2009Sep 2012 · 3 yrs · Lyon , France

Centre de robotique et de vision industrielles (crvi)

Software Engineer

Feb 2008Jun 2008 · 4 mos · Québec, Canada

Armée de terre

Reservist (Army)

Feb 2007Apr 2012 · 5 yrs 2 mos · 68ème Régiment d'Artillerie d'Afrique

  • As a Reservist I served as a Squad Leader for anti-terrorism patrols in the 68th Artillery Regiment.

Education

Télécom Paris

Advanced Master's Degree — Cybersecurity

Jan 2012Jan 2013

Ecole des Mines d'Alès

Master's degree — Computer Science

Jan 2009Jan 2012

Edinburgh Napier University

BSc Computer Science

Jan 2008Jan 2009

Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1

Associate's degree — Computer Science

Jan 2006Jan 2008

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