Co-Founder at @SnapUp • First engineer at @StumbleUpon, Worked at @Yahoo • Product, scalability, server, mobile engineering • Studied at University of Michigan
As first engineer at StumbleUpon: Built "webtoolbar" (install-less stumbling solution) and Chrome extension for StumbleUpon as lead dev. Took product from concept to full product, which delivers >50% of daily stumbles. Created StumbleVideo as main product engineer, interfacing with StumbleUpon backend that was developed by founder, in under one month. Supported and drove large parts of development of StumbleUpon V2, V3, V4. Helped grow service through various technology phases, from MySQL-only, to mysql+memcache, to mysql+hbase+memcache backed service. Lead development of unified client API for all browsers. Helped grow engineer org to 25.
Built product photo color extractor for One Kings Lane data science team, and trained OKL mobile team on iOS development.
Built a location-based MMO game for iPhone. Sole engineer, client and server-side. Played in over 30 countries worldwide.
Currently building SnapUp, using CV / ML to let you shop by taking screenshots in any shopping app.
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