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    George Sequeira

    George Sequeira

    CTO @revvup

    Passionate about how engineers use technology to achieve great things. Consistently leading engineers to provide company level impact.

    Software Engineer New York University of Marylan...
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    Experience
    Bonsai
    Bonsai
    Head of Engineering 2019 (6 months)
    Cross-disciplinary role responsible for leading team in defining + executing initial product release: “Bumble for jobs” - a mobile application that presented students with... more job opportunities — backed by an operations platform that parsed user resume and leveraged an interaction feedback loop to provide better results.

    On a given day I could be:
    * Speaking with students to get feedback on initial features
    * Speaking to potential employers to explore revenue opportunities
    * Building a workflow management system to provide students with jobs.
    Bluecore
    Bluecore
    Principal Software Engineer 2019 (3 months)
    Setting technical direction for cross-team direction of re-platforming core services.
    Head of Devops 2017 - 2019 (about 1 year)
    Identify organizational gaps and set cultural and technical engineering direction.
    Senior Software Engineer 2015 - 2017 (over 2 years)
    Design and lead development of products that yield new revenue streams for high-growth company.
    Amazon
    Exit
    Amazon
    Senior Software Engineer 2014 - 2015 (11 months)
    Leading and growing engineers to solve core data storage problems on the Amazon Alexa speech team.
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    Bluecore, Amazon, Bonsai
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    * Set technical cross-team direction at Bluecore for re-platforming of core services resulting in 5x cost reduction.
    * Coached/mentored group of engineers across different disciplines at Bluecore (Frontend, Infrastructure, Application) to provide organization-wide impact. Examples:

    * Created Kubernetes tools/training for Bluecore’s move to microservices..
    * Created custom service framework to ease Kubernetes service adoption.
    * Reduced code check-in validation times by 4x
    * Re-structured frontend distribution resulting in 8x speed improvements

    * Architected and led implementation of service framework used to sync first-party data with 3rd party platforms (e.g. Adwords); “Audience Syncs” is responsible for 10%+ of new revenue for Bluecore in 2017.
    * At Amazon - created org’s first automated ETL process for extracting unstructured data from a distributed store (HDFS) and into user-defined structured tables (MySQL).

    Describe the most impressive thing you've done.
    Skills
    Software Engineering and Architecture Management Project Management Product Management
     
    Q&A
    What's the most useful business-related book you've ever read?

    5 dysfunctions of a team. Solving these 5 problems unlocks extreme potential in any functional team.

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