Work Experience
Airbnb, San Francisco, CA — Special Projects

FEBRUARY 2021 - PRESENT

Team Focused on integrating new technologies into Airbnb, and allowing the hosts to focus on hospitality

• Launched a revamp of the Hosting Product, the Today Tab, to allow Hosts a dashboard to manage reservations and see what they need to do.

• Head of team working on new technologies and integrations for Airbnb

• Exploring new technology developments in the industry and how they can be used for Guests.

REX, Redwood City, CA — VP of Research and Development

OCTOBER 2018 - FEBRUARY 2021

Startup focused on disrupting the Real Estate industry, providing a true end to end product that provides loans, insurance, brokerage, insurance, escrow all in one product.

• Responsible for reviewing system architecture, built on top of AWS and Docker/K8.

• Lead all of the product engineering team, designers, and QA, and mentoring Product Managers, team size ~30 engineers

• Product Managed, built and launched the first mobile app for REX, growing at a rate of 400 new users a day

• Mentored numerous ICs through the transition to a management track

• Launched first smart home hardware which resulted in a new business unit

• Designed, built, and launched new areas of infrastructure that would allow for productivity gains and ability to change processes in seconds that would previously take weeks.

Lyft, San Francisco, CA — Senior Engineering Manager

JULY 2017 - OCTOBER 2018

• Responsible for Full stack of:

  • Amp (Hardware Light in Driver’s Cars)

  • Round Up & Donate

  • Local Promotions, including skins and modes

  • Disney Minnie Van Service

  • Lyft.com website

• Redesigned and lead Mobile Hiring

• UpLyft Parents Lead, resulted in the group giving advice around benefits and features such as car seats.

• Designated as go to mentor for problem managers to help course correct

Facebook, Menlo Park, CA — Senior Engineering Manager

OCTOBER 2010 - MAY 2017

• Senior Engineering Manager, Ads Growth (2016-2017)

  • 3 Managers, ~30 reports in total (recursively)

  • Responsible for growing the number of advertisers by 20%, and hit those goals continuously. (5 M active advertisers)

  • Launching A/B experiments, and working on product changes that will grow advertisers

• Senior Engineering Manager, Oculus Applications (2014-2016)

  • 3 Managers, ~40 reports in total (recursively)

  • Revamped hiring processes, started recruiting team resulting in a consistent bar of better hires

  • Shipped GearVR (Mobile) and Rift (PC) product + iterations, responsible for initial versions of all 1st party apps on PC + Mobile including: 2d & 3d App Store (PC + Mobile), Oculus Arcade, Oculus 360 Photos, Oculus Video, Retail Demo, Oculus Social

• Manager of Android Messenger Team

  • Grew messenger from 100m to 800m+ users

  • Managing a team of over 24 people with multiple sub managers, Team of people in charge of the messenger app, and Messages within the main FB app

  • Launched Features: Messenger 3.0, Chat Heads, Payments, Voice Clips, Phone Number sign up

• Conceived of and created first demos for multiple initiatives to drive growth outside of core product offerings

Google, Mountain View, CA — Software Engineer

DECEMBER 2006 - OCTOBER 2010

• ChromeOS

  • Designed, integrated feedback, and implemented a new file browser and media player for ChromeOS

  • Go-to resource for everything involving media playback and file management in ChromeOS.

  • Designed system for an HTML/C++ based Options UI for Chrome that enabled a multi site team of 10 people to be able to contribute to the options, without running into conflicts.

• Teacher for Life of a Server (new engineer on-boarding classes).

• YouTube XL Lead

  • Launched the very first HTML5 video tag based site with a large catalog which was demoed at GoogleIO.

  • Launched 6 months after starting the project (design, implementation, user testing, deployment).

• Google Media Server Lead (20% time)

  • Made the first demo, recruited the team, managed the team, and launched, all in 20% time.

• Software Deployment Engineer

  • Launched an app that would generate configuration files automatically based on input from the user to get programs into Google production environment

Mediabolic, Mountain View, CA — Software Engineer

JANUARY 2003 - DECEMBER 2006

Start-up in the set-top box space and video streaming acquired by Macrovision in 2006.

• Responsible for Intel VIIV Windows Media Server. Shipped 1,000,000 units in 2006.

• Led development of UPnP/DLNA products. Helped develop the spec with Intel.

• Primary developer of Fujitsu application and liaison to Fujitsu QA in Japan. Software installed on approx. 1,000,000 computers.