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    Christopher Pruijsen

    Christopher Pruijsen

    Product Leader (11+ yrs); ex A.Team (first product hire), SiFive, Udacity

    Management Lisbon University of Oxford '12
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    Achievements

    Worked on 100+ products across mobile, web and IoT over the last 11 years, including multiple B2B and B2B2C products with 600k+ users. First product hire at A.Team ($55m raised), led AI/ML initiatives which saved >33% of internal admin time, improved search service performance by 100x, and built the company's first proprietary "walled garden" dataset through the implementation of integrated call scheduling, recording, transcription and analysis in core talent workflows.

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    Skills
    Product Management Entrepreneurship Project Management Service Design User Research Product Strategy Business Strategy Wireframes and prototyping Mentoring Coaching Management Leadership Teaching / Instruction
     
    Experience
    A.Team
    A.Team
    Product Manager 2021 - 2025 (about 4 years)
    Professional network of top 1% independent product builders (dev, data science, design, marketing, product), raised a $55m Series A in 2021. Joined as one of the first 100... more community members in April 2020, worked on several client missions via the platform, and started contributing to platform development in Feb 2021 as the first product hire. Over my four years of working on the product I worked on almost every part of the system.

    During the last two years I was focused on leading the teams responsible for the company's machine learning / AI, data pipelines, vetting systems, and admin tooling. This includes our internal search engine, application review tooling, email infrastructure used to inform builders about new relevant roles and missions, automated review systems, graph layers to surface relevant teams who know or may know each other, 360-feedback and review systems, data taxonomy, predictive profile enrichment, discovery feeds for builders and companies, end to end call scheduling, recording, transcription and analysis, and more.
    Toptal
    Toptal
    Freelance Product Manager 2018 - 2021 (over 2 years)
    Freelance Product Manager on Toptal, an exclusive top 3% contractor platform. Served on the screening committee for the Product Management vertical (100+ interviews done in... more 2020), as a Toptal Speaker, and a Toptal Global Mentor.

    Notable engagements included:
    - a 9-month project leading a ±20-person team in the creation of e-learning experiences and digital training materials for 600,000+ insurance agents, staff and trainers across 8 countries, as part of a successful covid-accelerated digital transformation effort for Prudential Corporation Asia
    - a 3-month engagement with SavvyReading, to build the project- and product management functions within their organisation, and help them scale on their (bootstrapped!) journey to- and beyond 2M ARR.
    SiFive
    SiFive
    Product Manager @ SiFive Learn 2019 (9 months)
    SiFive is a semiconductor startup pioneering silicon at the speed of software by leveraging RISC-V (open-source ISA).

    Managed two education products for SiFive:
    -... more an online learning portal
    - a micro controller for K-12 children to learn how to code, launched in partnership with the BBC and Tynker.
    homies.io
    homies.io
    Founder, CEO | Freelance Product Manager 2017 - 2019 (about 2 years)
    homies.io is a full-service software design and development agency. Started with 3 friends, 25 consultants at its peak.
    Scalable Path
    Scalable Path
    Freelance Software Architect | Product Manager 2017 - 2019 (almost 2 years)
    Worked on projects for enterprise clients including a well-known insurance company and a large medical institution. The team is worldwide with engineers and designers spanning... more NorthAm, LatAm, Asia and Israel.
    Udacity
    Udacity
    Technical Project Manager 2016 - 2017 (9 months)
    Part of the founding team of Udacity Blitz - a software agency unit on top of the core educational business, with responsibilities including:
    - architecting, developing,... more launching and maintaining internal tools as a hands-on full-stack software engineer, including a project cost and feasibility calculator tool for the sales team.
    - managing select client projects as a TPM including the design/development of a surgery training VR, a family office expense tracking app, a smart air quality monitor and a mental health support community application.

    Joined after Hack Reactor, to pursue a hybrid dev and PM role.
    Left when the unit was disbanded, as the business decided to focus on the core e-learning product.
    Gigster
    Gigster
    Freelance Product Manager 2015 - 2016 (7 months)
    Managed 100+ projects of $2.4m+ in aggregate value.
    Was ranked in the top 1 percentile of Gigsters (contractors on the platform) during my time at the company. Left to... more do Hack Reactor.
    Sterio.me
    Sterio.me
    Founder, CEO 2013 - 2015 (over 1 year)
    Sterio.me started on StartupBus Africa ('13) and received $40,000 from Startup Chile, was selected for the Accelerator of the World Innovation Summit in Education (WISE) and... more was honoured as finalists at Mobile World Congress, World Technology Award (education), World Summit Award (education and African Content), Harvard Africa Business, MIT Africa Innovate and Mondato Summit Africa. Fast Company named Sterio.me list of “10 Most Innovative Companies in Africa” for 2014.
    Founder
    homies.io, Sterio.me, Ampion
    Employee
    Udacity, Da-Mas.org, Gigster, Scalable Path, SiFive, Toptal, A.Team
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    Projects
    Our Future World :: Tweet a Dream
    International Children's Day, June 1st 2015
    Advisor · Campaign inspiring 100.000+ school age children and youth in more than 50 countries to ask themselves: What do they want their future to look… · More like and what role do they want to play in it.
    Fernando Sierra
    Karolina Stawinska
    With Karolina Stawinska, Fernando Sierra
    Hack Reactor Connect - VR
    webVR name-guessing game for the Hack Reactor community
    Software Engineer, React, Mozilla Aframe, Three.js · Virtual Reality game where one can walk around and see the most recent 8-10 cohorts of Hack… · More Reactor, click on a person and guess their name via a dynamically rendered 3D keyboard.

    - created custom layouts of primitives (pyramids, cylinders, stairs, etc)
    - dynamically rendered and positioned a 3D keyboard for text input in VR
    - created the React app and deployed via Github pages.
    Carvis
    Find a car, save money
    Co-Lead, Software Engineer, Node.js, React, Redis · Reverse engineered the Uber and Lyft APIs using Charles Proxy and various other tools, architected… · More and implemented the middleware including external API integrations and the creation of our own developer API with Redis rate limiting, and wrote 1k+ lines of unit and integration tests covering our middleware, developer API, rate limiting and DB + Redis cache.

    In addition to contributing heavily as a core software engineer (see my commit history on Github), I acted as product owner internally, organizing team efforts via tools such as Trello and Slack.

    Amazon Alexa Skill and web app enabling users to order the cheapest/fastest car available between Lyft/Uber.
    Alex Stark
    Jason Davenport
    With Jason Davenport, Alex Stark
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