Experience

Netlify

• United States
• Software Development
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Board member & early investor

  • Feb 2016 - Present

  San Francisco Bay Area Netlify is reinventing and productizing the technology for developing, building, deploying and hosting modern web sites/apps.



AppSharp

• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-founder, President

  • 2014 - Present

  AppSharp, which started in 2014 as a side-project with two good friends, builds identity management products & services that help hundreds of thousands of small businesses thrive.



Stackbit (acquired by Netlify)

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-Founder, President

  • Jan 2019 - Jun 2023

  Stackbit has been acquired by Netlify: https://www.stackbit.com/blog/stackbit-joins-netlify 2022 - 2023: President 2019 - 2022: CEO Visual website editor for the Composable/Headless era, Enterprise focused.



IFTTT

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Investor, Advisor

  • Jan 2012 - 2018

  San Francisco Bay Area



Chegg Inc.

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Advisor

  • Mar 2016 - Mar 2017

• Vice President - Research and Development

  • Nov 2011 - Mar 2016

  San Francisco Bay Area 2014 - 2016: VP R&D Driving and overseeing Chegg's efforts in researching, developing and commercializing new technologies and products that can fundamentally change the mechanics of studying. In addition involved with M&A and strategic partnerships. 2013 - 2014: Director - Head of Mobile Responsible for strategy, planning, launching and growing of Mobile products at Chegg. 2011 - 2013: Director of Product Engineering - eTextbook Reader As part of the Chegg acquisition of… Show more 2014 - 2016: VP R&D Driving and overseeing Chegg's efforts in researching, developing and commercializing new technologies and products that can fundamentally change the mechanics of studying. In addition involved with M&A and strategic partnerships. 2013 - 2014: Director - Head of Mobile Responsible for strategy, planning, launching and growing of Mobile products at Chegg. 2011 - 2013: Director of Product Engineering - eTextbook Reader As part of the Chegg acquisition of 3D3R I architected and oversaw the development of Chegg's HTML5 eReader App and worked with our backend and content teams to build a world-class product. I later took over Product Management of the project and held both Product and Engineering Leadership responsibilities.



3D3R - Acquired by Chegg Inc (NYSE: CHGG)

• Founder, CEO

  • Jun 2005 - Nov 2011

  A boutique consultancy for hard software problems and beautiful products. 3D3R Also created Bubbles - A site-specific browser for the Windows Platform, a technological demo that helped define the evolution of browser technologies from monolithic standalone applications to the embeddable pieces of content and interaction we are familiar with today. Read more: http://gigaom.com/2006/04/15/between-web-desktop-bubbles/



BeInSync

• Australia
• Advertising Services

• Principal Software Engineer

  • Apr 2003 - Jun 2005

  Core member of BeInSync's Engineering team - designing, building, and delivering the company's UI rendering engine and synchronization algorithms prior to its successful acquisition by Phoenix Technologies.



IMR - Computer Graphics and Games

• Co-Conspirator

  • Jun 1996 - Jun 2004

  At the age of ~17 developed Checkers for the original Palm Pilot, a best-seller licensed and distributed by PocketExpress (later HandMark). Also built Checkers and Blackjack for Windows Smartphones and the Blackberry. Started a team that built real-time 3D computer-graphics engines and 'demos' as part of the european and nordic Demoscene computer art subculture, competed at events including Assembly 1997 (Finland, 7'th place demo-compo) and Wired 1998 (Belgium, 3'rd place, demo compo).



Israeli Air Force

• Israel
• Defense and Space Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Engineer

  • Apr 2000 - Apr 2003

  Worked on the F15i simulator + some other weird fun stuff at the Israeli Air Force's Mamdas unit (now renamed to "Ofek")



Sanctum (Acquired by IBM)

• Software Engineering Intern

  • Aug 1997 - Sep 1998

  In the evenings of my last two years of high school - Implemented world's first CAPTCHA (not kidding), Hacked the TCP/IP stack on the NT4 Kernel