Experience

Pivotal Life Sciences

• United States
• Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Principal, Data Infrastructure

  • Feb 2023 - 11 months

  San Francisco, California, United States Leading data engineering and infrastructure group. Building data platform and applications for life sciences investments.



TCV

• United States
• Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Vice President

  • Dec 2021 - Feb 2023

  Menlo Park, California, United States Early member of Data Intelligence Group. Architected and implemented main components of the fund's data intelligence platform, tracking tens of millions of private and public tech companies, across geographies and funding stages. Deployed entity resolution algorithms to canonicalize company profiles across large numbers of data sources. Led implementation of distributed computing infrastructure for large scale data processing. Key technologies: Python, Airflow, AWS, SageMaker, MLOps… Show more Early member of Data Intelligence Group. Architected and implemented main components of the fund's data intelligence platform, tracking tens of millions of private and public tech companies, across geographies and funding stages. Deployed entity resolution algorithms to canonicalize company profiles across large numbers of data sources. Led implementation of distributed computing infrastructure for large scale data processing. Key technologies: Python, Airflow, AWS, SageMaker, MLOps, Dask, pandas

• Director, Data Engineer

  • Jun 2019 - Dec 2021

  Menlo Park, California



Laterally

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

• CTO / Software Engineer

  • Jan 2014 - May 2019

  San Francisco, California, United States Co-founded legal search engine / recruiting startup ("LinkedIn for lawyers"). Led software engineering efforts. Built web crawler systems covering 100k+ web pages. Built ETL infrastructure, machine learning pipelines from ground up. Key technologies: Python, Elasticsearch, Postgres, scrapy, JavaScript, scikit-learn, devops



University of California, Berkeley

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Ph.D. Candidate

  • 2012 - 2018

  Research interests: location-based services, entity resolution. Designed and implemented prototype entity resolution / identity resolution system, correlating across millions of records from hundreds of academic, government, and personal document archives. Designed and implemented the prototype GeoFeed server, a horizontally scalable, easily remixable delivery system for delivering location-based services (and accessing geospatial data collections in general), using standard Web… Show more Research interests: location-based services, entity resolution. Designed and implemented prototype entity resolution / identity resolution system, correlating across millions of records from hundreds of academic, government, and personal document archives. Designed and implemented the prototype GeoFeed server, a horizontally scalable, easily remixable delivery system for delivering location-based services (and accessing geospatial data collections in general), using standard Web technologies. Show less



Ark.com

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

• Co-founder

  • Jul 2010 - Jan 2013

  YCombinator-funded in 2012. Social network search engine with entity resolution across all popular social networks. Software engineer and engineering management.



Popcuts, Inc.

• Co-Founder / CTO

  • Jun 2008 - Mar 2011

  YCombinator-funded in summer 2008. Popcuts was an online music store where fans have a stake in the music they buy. Built core systems, algorithms.



Yahoo

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Engineer Intern

  • Nov 2006 - Sep 2007

  Implemented metadata API for retrieving time-based media information on Brain Jam (tech talk) videos. Implemented and improved components of distributed system for video transcoding. Instrumented public prototype of synchronized video player for research data collection. Conducted social media research; lead or co-author on two published papers.