Experience

Fund Cogito

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Founder & CEO

  • Jan 2020 - 4 years

  San Francisco Bay Area /** Interested in working w financial data (public and private)? Help foundations, endowment make sense of their 1000s investments? We're hiring: our stack is Python/Django + Angular on AWS **/ -- Helping endowments, foundations and institutional investors make sense all all their fund documents -- 1 click to grab all your documents from 3rd party portals such as altareturn, sungarddx and many more -- Docs are tagged, indexed and classified automatically: a real time saver… Show more /** Interested in working w financial data (public and private)? Help foundations, endowment make sense of their 1000s investments? We're hiring: our stack is Python/Django + Angular on AWS **/ -- Helping endowments, foundations and institutional investors make sense all all their fund documents -- 1 click to grab all your documents from 3rd party portals such as altareturn, sungarddx and many more -- Docs are tagged, indexed and classified automatically: a real time saver for operation folks when someone asks for the K1 for 2018 for Fund A, B and C -- Document Understanding Platform to extract data at scale from Schedule of Investments, pCap, Cashflow and exposures Show less



Trusted Insight

• VP Product Development & Data Science

  • Feb 2017 - Jan 2020

  San Francisco Bay Area - Relaunched trusted insight.com with complete UI redesign and new acquisition flows, resulting in increased premium memberships and time spent on site - Built new studio tools and AI to help our GPs and LPs be more efficient in re-searching potential deals - streamlining and modernizing communications around funding and co-funding opportunities - Starting in 2019, started iterating on new platform to help institutional investor manage their data, this new platform is now called… Show more - Relaunched trusted insight.com with complete UI redesign and new acquisition flows, resulting in increased premium memberships and time spent on site - Built new studio tools and AI to help our GPs and LPs be more efficient in re-searching potential deals - streamlining and modernizing communications around funding and co-funding opportunities - Starting in 2019, started iterating on new platform to help institutional investor manage their data, this new platform is now called Fund Cogito Show less



Sabbatical

• Business Consulting and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Consultant

  • Mar 2014 - Feb 2017

  Currently tinkering with iOS, arduino, Raspberry Pi, RFM69, sensor nodes, node.js, homebridge/homekit, molecular cooking. (not always in that order) Wrote iOS app My Recipes (uses OCR to scan recipes) and custom weather app that talks to homemade weather station and soil humidity sensors. Learned Eagle to design PCB and had them fab-ed at OSHPark. Backend written in node.js, php and MySQL with around 200K data points so far Designed and created http://www.thegourmetcorner.com, ran… Show more Currently tinkering with iOS, arduino, Raspberry Pi, RFM69, sensor nodes, node.js, homebridge/homekit, molecular cooking. (not always in that order) Wrote iOS app My Recipes (uses OCR to scan recipes) and custom weather app that talks to homemade weather station and soil humidity sensors. Learned Eagle to design PCB and had them fab-ed at OSHPark. Backend written in node.js, php and MySQL with around 200K data points so far Designed and created http://www.thegourmetcorner.com, ran Adwords and email campaigns to bring traffic, scaled online sales from $0 to mid/high 5 figures Show less



Microsoft

• United States
• Software Development
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Principal, Lead Program Manager @ Bing Social

  • Jul 2011 - Nov 2013

  Managed team, ideation, development and product definition for the "Friends who know" and "People who might know" features in SERP, bringing social data from Twitter, Facebook and Google+ to Bing. "People who know" is a collection of people from social sites (foursquare, Quora, bloggers...) that can give users a new perspective on their query and topic they are searching for.

• Principal, Lead Program Manager

  • Mar 2010 - Aug 2011

  I manage the Social Applications team in MSN with social apps and components shipping in MSN home pages around the world. (twitter and Facebook modules for the MSN homepage and social destination on MSN)



Yahoo!

• Information Technology and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director Product - Yahoo! Application Platform

  • Dec 2007 - Apr 2010

  Managing Yahoo! Application Platform product team.Application platform enabled internal and external developers to write applications for several yahoo properties such as Profiles and the homepage. Managed team that delivered the platform and development tools.

• Manager, Avatars.yahoo.com

  • May 2007 - Dec 2007

  Managing product for avatars.yahoo.com - available in 13 internationals with millions of users and platform infrastructure.

• Senior Product Manager, Messenger Platform

  • Nov 2005 - May 2007

  Product Lead responsible for delivering Messenger 8.0 Plug-in architecture and related technologies. Managed team who delivered SDK, API documentation and a large set of Plug-ins for launch. Worked cross functionally with Platform, Product and Backend engineering teams to balance feature set and schedule. Drove UI requirements and managed final implementation with UED & engineering.



Apple computer

• India
• Retail Office Equipment

• Mac OS X Technology Evangelist

  • Aug 2001 - Nov 2005

  Responsible for promoting Apple’s latest technologies to the worldwide developer community, primary areas include software optimization for C/C++ developers, Mac OS X development tools, threading, and Power Mac G5 compiler optimizations. Mac OS X Spotlight Evangelist - Responsible for delivering 3rd party plugins to enable search on 3rd party custom files, evangelize technology and help resolve integration issues with key partners. Responsible for ensuring 3rd party feature requests are… Show more Responsible for promoting Apple’s latest technologies to the worldwide developer community, primary areas include software optimization for C/C++ developers, Mac OS X development tools, threading, and Power Mac G5 compiler optimizations. Mac OS X Spotlight Evangelist - Responsible for delivering 3rd party plugins to enable search on 3rd party custom files, evangelize technology and help resolve integration issues with key partners. Responsible for ensuring 3rd party feature requests are part of Mac OS X product design. Manage relationships between Apple engineering and external key developers. Organize US, European and Asian technology events including technical briefings and code porting workshops to help 3rd parties optimize their software for Mac platform and the PowerMac G5. Work cross functionally with internal Developer Programs to craft outbound key messages and programs for new developers.

• Text & International Technology Manager, Worldwide Developer Relations

  • Sep 1999 - Sep 2001

  Responsible for promoting and helping top developers move their applications to Unicode and localize their products. Responsible for crafting software requirements to expand adoption of international technologies. Crafted marketing messages and outlined business opportunities to convince 3rd party developers to internationalize their products. Established business relations with 3rd party localization companies; created technical web pages support for all… Show more Responsible for promoting and helping top developers move their applications to Unicode and localize their products. Responsible for crafting software requirements to expand adoption of international technologies. Crafted marketing messages and outlined business opportunities to convince 3rd party developers to internationalize their products. Established business relations with 3rd party localization companies; created technical web pages support for all international technologies. Keynote speaker at worldwide briefings in Japan/China/Korea/India and Europe (emerging markets).

• Software Engineer, International Text and Graphics Group

  • Sep 1997 - Sep 1999

  Project lead and developer for text editing application that supports two-byte script input and advanced typography (Classic and Mac OS X). Designed and implemented parts of the Multilingual Text Engine shipping with the Mac OS (full Unicode text engine)