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    Michael D'Angelo

    Michael D'Angelo

    Product Development New York City Stanford University '16
    mldangelo.com
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    Experience
    Smile ID
    Smile ID
    VP of Engineering & Head of ML 2022 - 2024 (over 2 years)
    Smile builds machine learning APIs to compare user-submitted photos with ID documents. Our APIs are used by hundreds of thousands of people every day to access financial services.... more As VP of Engineering, I provide technical leadership on high-impact projects, influence, and coach a distributed team of engineers, and facilitate alignment and clarity across teams on goals, outcomes, and timelines. I was promoted from Director of Engineering to VP of Engineering in April 2022, and then to VP of Engineering and Head of ML in November 2022. I lead a ~20 person engineering organization and spend more than 50% of my time writing code.
    Arthena
    Arthena
    CTO & Co-Founder 2014 - 2022 (about 8 years)
    Arthena is a Series A company funded by Anthemis, Foundation Capital, and YC. We develop quantitative strategies to predict the value of fine art and build investment products.... more I ran the product and engineering organization for eight years. We were acquired by Masterworks in 2023.

    Some highlights include:
    - I developed the long-term technical vision and roadmap within, and often beyond, the scope of my teams. I evolved the roadmap to meet anticipated future requirements and infrastructure needs.
    - Built production, online, end-to-end optimized machine learning pipelines for time-series prediction.
    - Designed a microservice architecture around data collection, data integrity, feature engineering, research, strategy, backtesting, deployment, and reporting.
    - Set and communicated team priorities that supported the broader organization's goals. Aligned strategy, processes, and decision-making across teams.
    - Set clear expectations with individuals based on their level and role and align them with the broader organization's goals. Met regularly with individuals to discuss performance and development and provided feedback and coaching.
    Matroid
    Matroid
    Co-Founder 2015 - 2016 (about 1 year)
    Matroid delivers custom machine learning models via API. I led the product through the Series A, which included creating:
    - Data collection and curation, model training,... more validation, and serving infrastructure using Caffe, Flask, Celery, and Redis.
    - Data and model versioning tools, authentication, administration, and a UI for creating visual classifiers from keyword search or other user-created content, using Node.js, Express, React, Keystone, MongoDB, Docker, and S3 on AWS.
    Planet
    Planet
    Intern 2014 - 2015 (7 months)
    Planetary Resources
    Exit
    Planetary Resources
    Intern 2014 (4 months)
    Meta
    Meta
    Intern 2013 (3 months)
    Promptfoo
    Promptfoo
    Founder, CTO 2024 - Present (about 2 years)
    Founder
    Promptfoo
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    Planet, Arthena, Meta, Planetary Resources, Matroid, Smile ID
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    Projects
    Nearest Dollar
    2015 BVP Hackathon
    Software Engineer, Project Manager, Node.js, MongoDB, Twilio · Charitable giving no longer needs to be a conscious choice. NearestDollar connects to… · More your bank accounts, credit cards, or debit cards, and rounds up your purchases.
    Space Potato
    High Altitude Balloon, Photography, Potatoes
    Lead Potato Scientist · Near-space mission will be powered by potatoes to over 100,000 feet above the Earth, taking pictures along the way.
    Harvest
    2015 Techcrunch Disrupt SF Hackathon
    Software Engineer, Node.js, Javascript, Python · Advanced, low cost monitoring for crops. Harvest catches irrigation leaks, overwatering, and nutrient deficiencies.
     
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    Javascript Amazon Web Services Python Machine Learning Numpy TensorFlow Docker Google Cloud Platform Dask Pandas SQL
    Locations
    San Francisco Mountain View Berkeley Brooklyn Seattle
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