• Launched multi-objective, multi-stakeholder online recommendations in programmed music

playlists (e.g. Spotify radio). The recommender system is used by Spotify's ~600 million monthly

active listeners, with a 200ms P99 latency.

• Enabled the highly profitable Discovery Mode promotion program within recommendations,

tripling the available capacity for the program, and improving core metrics.

• Developed and successfully executed a technical strategy for the 150-person business unit to

successfully adopt ML across the technical stack and engineering practices.

• Shipped 5-10% user satisfaction metric improvements across Spotify's playlists.

• Oversaw the development and deployment of ML-driven recommendations within the AI DJ.

• Managed a 22-person ML-focused organization, including multiple engineering managers

and staff engineers.

• Grew and mentored multiple technical leaders across Spotify

RxSense, Inc.

• Implementing a real-time prescription benefit check system, using a new NCPDP standard for prescription coverage lookups by providers.

Swipesum, Inc.

• Developed a system for extracting credit card fee information from PDF statements

• Used AWS Textract and Comprehend

• Used custom natural language classifiers for determining fee types

Brightcove, Inc.

• Troubleshoot a large-scale Google Dataflow/BigTable pipeline

• Coordinate with the Google Dataflow team on bug fixes, billing, and upgrades

• Developed the software and system architecture for a novel Bayesian machine learning system, for both on-premise and off-premise deployment. Used docker containers with python components.

• Led the development of a SAAS customer success natural language analytics product, based on the company core technology.

• Implemented organization-wide scrum product development process

• Supported machine learning and data science teams in defining and implementing an experimentation platform.

• Recruited onshore/ offshore software engineering team, and supported collaboration with machine learning and data science teams

• Led the SOC-2 Audit process. Defined and implemented security and compliance standards across the organization.

• Developed an adaptive learning platform for medicine and healthcare, used every day by thousands of students to help in med school and with board exams.

• Managed the technical organization through a successful due diligence round, and the closing of an acquisition by a large medical publisher.

• Hired and trained onshore/offshore engineering team, with a peak size of 18 people

• Overhauled a difficult legacy system, and successfully transitioned company to a new codebase.

• Introduced continuous integration, continuous deployment, automated testing, and agile development to the team

• Worked closely with the CEO and Head of Product on defining and developing new features

• Led the product management for Firecracker mobile applications

• Managed a $1 mil. budget

Helped transition engineering team through a challenging layoff, and refocus on future priorities.