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    Eric Goldberg

    Eric Goldberg

    Co-Founder at @snapup • First engineer at @stumbleupon, Worked at @yahoo • Product, scalability, server, mobile engineering • Studied at University of Michigan

    San Francisco University of Michigan
    snapup.com
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    Experience
    SnapUp
    Exit
    SnapUp
    Founder
    StumbleUpon
    Exit
    StumbleUpon
    Lead Developer 2006 - 2010 (about 4 years)
    First hired engineer, helped grow eng org to 25, built user-facing software used tens of millions of times per day.
    Sincerely
    Exit
    Sincerely
    Engineering Consultant 2013 (2 months)
    iOS development, refactoring Ship SDK, worked on user-facing applications and shared libraries.
    One Kings Lane
    One Kings Lane
    iOS Consultant 2012 (5 months)
    Trained mobile team on iOS development, built color-based search index for products.
    Yahoo
    Yahoo
    Technical Yahoo 2005 - 2006 (over 1 year)
    Founder
    SnapUp, WishPlz, Grind Factory
    Employee
    Sincerely, StumbleUpon, Yahoo, One Kings Lane, Canary Technologies
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    About
    Achievements

    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.

    Describe the most impressive thing you've done.
    Skills
    iOS Development RESTful Services Javascript Node.js Ruby on Rails PHP noSQL MySQL Entrepreneurship Product Development Software Architecture MongoDB Cocoa Touch OpenGL Objective-C Web Crawling Information Extraction Computer Vision Location Based Services Crawlers DevOps
    Locations
    San Francisco
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