- - Deep understanding of software development practice.
- Technical leadership and strategic, business-focused decision making.
- - Growing of teams building cutting edge and/or high-performance products.
+ - Deep understanding of software development practice and operations.
+ - Growing of teams building meaningful products.
- Joy in shipping commercial quality products and services that customers love.
+
+ - Experience in both start-up & large company environments, as well as consumer and enterprise markets.
- I am a detail-oriented software engineering manager with broad experience
+ I am a seasoned technology executive with broad experience
in Internet technologies, web applications, email systems, education technology, electronic-discovery, search, digital media, computer graphics,
- user interfaces, anti-malware/security, open-source software, parallel, multi-threaded programming, and distributed
+ user interfaces, anti-malware, application security, open-source software, parallel, multi-threaded programming, and distributed
multi-user computing environments.
- I have hired, managed, directed, and mentored software engineers through all phases of
+ I have hired, managed, directed, and mentored managers and individual contributors through all phases of
software development. I have an attention to detail, a passion for shipping products, and a strong desire to
build software that makes people say, "Wow!"
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EXPERIENCE
Udemy, Inc., San Francisco, CA.
-VP of Engineering, Aug 2019 - present.
+VP of Engineering, Head of Udemy Business Engineering, Aug 2019 - present.
Senior Director of Engineering, March 2017 - Aug 2019.
Director of Engineering, Teaching and Learning , March 2015 - March 2017.
- - See About Udemy for sense of scale.
+
+
- Grew team that develops Udemy's core teaching & learning platform by one engineer per month in 2015.
- Reorganized staff and adjusted process so that teams reliably made their 2 week sprint commitments.
- - Helped build the Udemy engineering team in Dublin, Ireland from near scratch.
- - From 2017-2019, more than doubled team size while directing platform, video,
+
- Built the Udemy engineering team in Dublin, Ireland from near scratch.
+ - From 2017-2019, more-than-doubled team size while directing platform, video,
SRE, and full-stack feature teams for consumer & enterprise offerings.
- Directed refactoring of Udemy's entire web application from a custom PHP app to Python's Django.
- Conducted technical due diligence for acqui-hire of Talent Buddy; subsequently integrated staff and shipped Udemy's coding exercises feature to plan in 3 months.
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experience for students.
- Pivoted existing services infrastructure efforts to Kubernetes and services written in Python and Kotlin.
+ - As head of Udemy Business Engineering, I led the development of Udemy's SaaS product, going from from $100K to $280M ARR over my tenure.
+ - See About Udemy for sense of scale. As of Jan, 2020:
+
+ - 50M students, 30M mins. of content.
+ - 57K instructors teaching 150K courses in over 65 languages.
+ - 190M course enrollments for students from 190+ countries and 2/3 of students outside U.S.
+ - Udemy also has over 5,000 enterprise customers and 80% of Fortune 100 companies use Udemy.
+ - Udemy's native Android app replaced Tinder as the most revenue-generating app in India in early 2020.
+
+
+ - Nasdaq IPO in October 2021 (as UDMY)
+ - Skills: Management · Team Leadership · Recruiting · Strategic Planning
Hightail, Inc., Campbell and San Francisco, CA.
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transmission.
+
PATENTS