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    Keith Simmons

    Keith Simmons

    An entrepreneur with extensive experience leading teams from 5 to 20 engineers building innovative products. Recently focused on creating language based ML systems at Google, but also experienced with scalable server infrastructure and mobile apps.

    Machine Learning Engineer Redwood City Stanford University
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    Experience
    Google
    Google
    Sr. Engineering Manager 2015 - 2023 (about 8 years)
    (2021-2023) Led a team creating a conversational AI system that determines if follow up is needed after a customer support conversation completes. Created proof-of-concept... more partnerships with AT&T and Verizon.

    (2018-2021) Led an infrastructure team at Google Perception creating tooling for Google's industry leading ML research teams.

    (2015-2018) Rebuilt Pulse.io, my application performance monitoring startup, as Firebase Performance Monitoring, reaching billions of monitored devices.
    Pulse.io
    Exit
    Pulse.io
    Founder, CTO 2012 - 2015 (about 3 years)
    A venture backed company focused on bringing application performance monitoring to
    mobile applications. At the time, native iOS and Android applications would often hang,
    suffering... more from client side performance issues that were invisible to server based
    performance monitoring tools.

    Acquired by Google after landing a few marquee clients (Groupon, Booking.com, and
    MyFitnessPal) and generating initial revenue ($XXXk ARR).
    Identified
    Exit
    Identified
    CTO 2009 - 2011 (about 2 years)
    Joined as one of two founding engineers and became CTO. Led development, hiring (8
    SWEs/designers), and architecture.

    Technical challenges included low latency indexing... more of large Facebook networks for full text
    search and creating a linear regression model to score the quality of candidates based on their
    academic backgrounds.

    Acquired by Workday
    Groovy Squared
    Groovy Squared
    Co-Founder 2006 - 2009 (about 3 years)
    Co-founded with a designer friend from Stanford and built custom software for a variety of
    clients (Michael Eisner from Disney, a hedge fund, a fantasy football provider,... more etc). Also built two top 50 iOS apps: a math game called Brain Thaw and a mobile client for Freshbooks
    called Minibooks.
    FactSet
    FactSet
    Team Lead of Marque Server 2003 - 2006 (about 3 years)
    A distribution network for real time financial quotes and news
    Founder
    Pulse.io
    Employee
    Identified, FactSet, Groovy Squared, Google
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    About
    Skills
    Machine Learning Distributed Systems
    Locations
    Redwood City
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