Experience

Euclid Power

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• CTO

  • Aug 2023 - Present

  Portland, Oregon, United States



Twitter

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Director of Engineering

  • May 2021 - Nov 2022

  Portland, Oregon, United States Engineering leadership for Longform, an innovation effort around journalism and newsletters • Shipped Ad-Free Articles, Top Articles, and other features in Twitter Blue within 6 months of acquisition. • Shepherded v1 of Notes, Twitter's effort at > 280 characters. • Built an org structure and culture out of acquired Scroll and Revue teams, existing Twitter teams, and new hires. Longform morphed into Subscriptions, bringing Twitter Blue into the organization from a different… Show more Engineering leadership for Longform, an innovation effort around journalism and newsletters • Shipped Ad-Free Articles, Top Articles, and other features in Twitter Blue within 6 months of acquisition. • Shepherded v1 of Notes, Twitter's effort at > 280 characters. • Built an org structure and culture out of acquired Scroll and Revue teams, existing Twitter teams, and new hires. Longform morphed into Subscriptions, bringing Twitter Blue into the organization from a different part of the company. Reshaped strategy and structure around news consumers until acquisition by Elon changed direction. Show less



Scroll

• United States
• Consumer Services

• Co-founder and CTO

  • Jun 2016 - May 2021

  Portland, OR "A hellacious hack." —Dieter Bohn, The Verge As one of three founders, built company from an idea about how a better user experience can still fund journalism through to exit to Twitter. Owned technical architecture and engineering hiring, deeply involved in product design and definition, business model design, budgeting, fundraising, operations, people policies, and everything else.



Foursquare

• United States
• Software Development
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Senior Director of Engineering

  • Jul 2010 - Apr 2015

  As one of the company’s first ten engineers and one of its first set of engineering managers, helped shape the organization, technology, and product. • Led the teams working on Foursquare’s “social features,” including managing the team that designed and shipped Swarm from scratch in 6 months. • Designed, built, and published Foursquare’s API, still used by all of Foursquare’s own apps and large partners like Microsoft and Twitter. • Cross-trained server engineers in client… Show more As one of the company’s first ten engineers and one of its first set of engineering managers, helped shape the organization, technology, and product. • Led the teams working on Foursquare’s “social features,” including managing the team that designed and shipped Swarm from scratch in 6 months. • Designed, built, and published Foursquare’s API, still used by all of Foursquare’s own apps and large partners like Microsoft and Twitter. • Cross-trained server engineers in client development and moved the company away from client and server silos to much more productive cross-functional teams. • Implemented processes for documentation, onboarding, and code review to help engineering scale. Wrote a tool for employees to share weekly snippets. • Solved a range of technical problems related to scale, security, metrics, and latency. Show less



Chartbeat

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• CTO

  • Jul 2009 - Jul 2010

  Moved the company from rough prototype to a firm foundation. This included hardening and documenting the five binaries in three languages comprising the system, switching datastores, keeping the service running in production at tens of thousands of QPS, fixing billing, completely reworking the UI and adding new features, helping articulate Chartbeat's value proposition to customers, and building out a team to take the company to the next stage.



Google

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Staff Software Engineer

  • Jul 2004 - Jul 2009

  • Tech lead of the Google Notebook team • Prototyped various search UI improvements on Web Search and Maps • Led the first significant introduction of Javascript into the Google search results page • Contributed several optimizations to the Closure Javascript Compiler • Rearchitected Google Maps Javascript code as part of the Maps latency team



IBM

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Engineer

  • 2002 - 2004

  As part of the Collaborative User Experience research group, worked on prototypes and visualizations related to email, wikis, and large-scale conversation.



NEC Corporation

• Japan
• Information Technology & Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Intern

  • Jun 2002 - Sep 2002



pulver.com

• Intern

  • 1999 - 2001