Senior Engineering Manager
Jonathan Betz (He/Him)
Investor in @lucid-software, @setjam.
Investor in @lucid-software, @setjam.
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Senior Director Of Engineering
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SVP, Engineering
- Reformed engineering from a key weakness to core strength for the company
- Collaborated across the executive team on corporate strategy, including branding, marketing,... more customer experience, operations, and technology
- Represented engineering and technology to the board of directors and key advisors
- Oversaw all aspects of technology architecture, performance, and functionality for both consumer-facing and internal applications
- Personally developed core backend for maximizing rental inventory utilization, increasing utilization by over 20%
- Led development of new features and infrastructure to grow company revenue from a $12M run-rate to a $22M+ run-rate
- Grew engineering team from 10 to 25
- Added key new functions to engineering, including SysOps, QA, Project Management, and Recruiting
- Collaborated across the executive team on corporate strategy, including branding, marketing,... more customer experience, operations, and technology
- Represented engineering and technology to the board of directors and key advisors
- Oversaw all aspects of technology architecture, performance, and functionality for both consumer-facing and internal applications
- Personally developed core backend for maximizing rental inventory utilization, increasing utilization by over 20%
- Led development of new features and infrastructure to grow company revenue from a $12M run-rate to a $22M+ run-rate
- Grew engineering team from 10 to 25
- Added key new functions to engineering, including SysOps, QA, Project Management, and Recruiting
VP, Engineering
Grew the engineering team from 2 engineers to 16 engineers in 18 months
Created custom, lightweight, software development processes to streamline work of the team,... more particularly in the areas of code style, code reviews, technical design, project management, knowledge sharing, and mentoring
Contributed code directly to many products and internal tools
Handled special initiatives as assigned by the COO, such as hiring for engineering-adjacent roles and creating a 3-person customer support team
Created custom, lightweight, software development processes to streamline work of the team,... more particularly in the areas of code style, code reviews, technical design, project management, knowledge sharing, and mentoring
Contributed code directly to many products and internal tools
Handled special initiatives as assigned by the COO, such as hiring for engineering-adjacent roles and creating a 3-person customer support team
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Clickable
Senior Director, Engineering
Led on-site and off-shore engineering teams developing Clickable Pro, a multi-network search advertising management web application
Designed and implemented novel recommendation... more algorithms for optimizing Search Engine Marketing with a focus on small and medium businesses. Successfully demonstrated positive outcomes from more than 90% of recommendations.
Grew the U.S.-based engineering team from 0 to 4 developers in 12 months
Represented the engineering team to the Board of Directors
Designed and implemented novel recommendation... more algorithms for optimizing Search Engine Marketing with a focus on small and medium businesses. Successfully demonstrated positive outcomes from more than 90% of recommendations.
Grew the U.S.-based engineering team from 0 to 4 developers in 12 months
Represented the engineering team to the Board of Directors
Senior Engineering Manager
Led cross-functional (software, UX, policy, etc) efforts preventing the spread of [m|d]isinformation on all Google products, as well as on the broader web.
- Developing... more new human evaluation methodologies to reliably identify [m|d]isinformation
- Designing novel web document and web site signals to quantify the risk of [m|d]isinformation
- Prototyping and testing user interfaces to help search users recognize [m|d]isinformation
Engineering Manager, Technology for Social Impact
Leader of a broad range of software engineering teams working to enable social impact through Google and its technology.
Efforts I've led include:
- Crisis Response (Oct 2012 - Dec 2015), including Google's responses to the Boston Marathon Bombing, Typhoon Haiyan, and the West Africa Ebola outbreak (see also projectbuendia.org, spawned by the Ebola response)
- Civic Innovation, including election information features in democracies around the globe, including the US, India, the UK, Brazil, France, Canada, Mexico, etc.
- New initiatives focused on opportunities for social impact in the developing world
- Developing... more new human evaluation methodologies to reliably identify [m|d]isinformation
- Designing novel web document and web site signals to quantify the risk of [m|d]isinformation
- Prototyping and testing user interfaces to help search users recognize [m|d]isinformation
Engineering Manager, Technology for Social Impact
Leader of a broad range of software engineering teams working to enable social impact through Google and its technology.
Efforts I've led include:
- Crisis Response (Oct 2012 - Dec 2015), including Google's responses to the Boston Marathon Bombing, Typhoon Haiyan, and the West Africa Ebola outbreak (see also projectbuendia.org, spawned by the Ebola response)
- Civic Innovation, including election information features in democracies around the globe, including the US, India, the UK, Brazil, France, Canada, Mexico, etc.
- New initiatives focused on opportunities for social impact in the developing world
Engineering Manager
Managed multiple engineering project teams with responsibilities in AdWords and AdSense
Recruited and led a 10-engineer team to develop the frontend for Google Ad Manager... more for Publishers from private beta to public launch (http://www.google.com/admanager)
Defined processes for feature qualification, release management, and schedule estimation
Mentored and developed skills of individual contributors at a variety of experience levels, from fresh college hires through experienced senior engineers
Software Engineer
Founded and led projects focused on extracting structured data from the web and providing innovative search applications
Directed engineering efforts of 6 other individual contributors
Led the launch of Google.com “Q&A” feature, a system which uses facts extracted from the web to provide instant answers to fact seeking search queries. This system currently triggers on approximately 0.5% of Google.com search traffic. More details at http://bit.ly/googleqa.
Designed many key systems for extraction, cleansing, and indexing of structured data from the web
Filed or co-filed 18 patents for information extraction methods that take advantage of the scale of data available to Google
Recruited and led a 10-engineer team to develop the frontend for Google Ad Manager... more for Publishers from private beta to public launch (http://www.google.com/admanager)
Defined processes for feature qualification, release management, and schedule estimation
Mentored and developed skills of individual contributors at a variety of experience levels, from fresh college hires through experienced senior engineers
Software Engineer
Founded and led projects focused on extracting structured data from the web and providing innovative search applications
Directed engineering efforts of 6 other individual contributors
Led the launch of Google.com “Q&A” feature, a system which uses facts extracted from the web to provide instant answers to fact seeking search queries. This system currently triggers on approximately 0.5% of Google.com search traffic. More details at http://bit.ly/googleqa.
Designed many key systems for extraction, cleansing, and indexing of structured data from the web
Filed or co-filed 18 patents for information extraction methods that take advantage of the scale of data available to Google
Epiphany
Engineering Manager
Managed 3-person team responsible for core analytic and reporting services
Directed major engineering projects, including re-architecting of core database query services
Optimized... more OLAP query engine performance for terabyte-scale datamarts
Directed major engineering projects, including re-architecting of core database query services
Optimized... more OLAP query engine performance for terabyte-scale datamarts
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