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    Susheel Daswani

    Susheel Daswani

    Stanford CS, Berkeley JD; Product-focused Engineering Leader; I empower and enable engineering teams to ship innovative products.

    Angel San Francisco New York University
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    Experience
    StrongSuit
    StrongSuit
    Head of Engineering 2025 - Present (about 1 year)
    Technical leadership & engineering

    - Set the bar for technical quality: ship code regularly, own critical systems, and run thorough code reviews
    - Scale infrastructure... more and architecture to support 10x user growth while improving reliability and observability
    - Design and build applied AI systems on modern AI APIs to solve complex legal problems with high reliability and performance
    - Improve engineering velocity and quality: mature CI/CD, raise test coverage, and streamline releases without adding bureaucracy

    Team & talent

    - Build and lead a high-performing engineering team: drive hiring, onboarding, and development and foster ownership, intensity, and collaboration
    - Attract and retain strong engineers through clear standards and a strong engineering culture

    Strategy & communication

    - Partner with the business: translate technical concepts and trade-offs into clear implications for founders, product, and GTM
    - Align technical strategy with customer value and company goals; make informed trade-offs on speed, robustness, and cost with user impact in mind
    - Contribute to roadmap, technology decisions, and SOC 2 Type II compliance
    - Communicate clearly with founders, PMs, design, and GTM to keep priorities and execution aligned
    - Use AI to improve development workflows and productivity across the team
    Voltage Park
    Voltage Park
    Senior Manager, Software Engineering 2025 - Present (over 1 year)
    * Managed the team of full stack and backend engineers building out and maintaining Voltage Park’s on-demand portal and API.
    * Owned responsibility over the product roadmap,... more sprint cycles, and customer interactions.
    * Guide the team’s vision, day-to-day priorities, and career development plans and performance feedback.
    * Lead the implementation of best practices for security, scalability, and reliability, including SOC II Type II, HIPAA, and company data compliance.
    * Provide clarity of decision making, direction, and progress for the team and the company.
    * Proactively detected P0 & P1 issues by building out our automated testing infrastructure and end to end regression tests.
    * Drive incident response, blameless postmortems, and continuous improvement.
    * Coordinate complex technical project work with cross-functional engineering teams across the stack.
    Capital One
    Capital One
    Senior Manager, Software Engineering, Mobile 2024 - 2025 (5 months)
    As a seasoned technology leader, I oversee a portfolio of diverse technology projects, managing a team of developers to deliver high-quality mobile solutions that address... more both business objectives and customer needs. My role involves working closely with senior managers and architects to guide the overall strategy and technical direction of projects, leveraging my deep expertise in mobile app development to drive innovation and efficiency.
    HeadSpin
    HeadSpin
    Director of Product Engineering 2023 - 2024 (over 1 year)
    As Senior Director of Product Management at Headspin, I help guide the development and success of Headspin's B2B SAAS platform for Enterprise IT customers. I guide the product... more strategy and roadmap in line with product vision, business strategy and business objectives. I deeply understand the personas, use-cases, maturity models, and needs of customers by engaging with customers and partners directly as well as customer success, support teams, and sales. I work closely with internal stakeholders and the product development teams to ensure that our engineering time is invested in building usable, useful, and feasible solutions for customer and business needs. I also help guide product development teams to solutions that are critically important, impactful, and achievable.

    Here are some specific achievements:
    * Directed the delivery of the first "white label" of the HeadSpin platform. https://devops.com/tricentis-adds-device-cloud-service-to-scale-mobile-app-testing/

    * Operationalized use of a product analytics platform to track web product KPIs, such as user metrics and platform & device performance & availability.

    * Launched & managed a product research & design organization that has delivered high fidelity designs for several new web product features.

    * Launched & led a cross-functional unified priority process to align the organization to deliver on high value customer & product goals.
    Citi Ventures
    Citi Ventures
    Director of Digital 2021 - 2023 (almost 2 years)
    I manage daily operations of our Product, Engineering, Design, & Data teams, enabling Citi Ventures Studio to build and release our digital products in a fast-paced, agile... more environment, while complying with required financial services rules and regulations.

    We currently ship Worthi (https://citi.com/worthi) and CityBuilder (https://citi.com/citybuilder), and more products are coming soon!
    Director of Engineering 2019 - 2021 (about 2 years)
    At Citi Ventures Studio, I own and manage all aspects of software engineering, and work cross-functionally to deliver Studio new products that increase economic vitality for... more cities (e.g., https://citi.com/citybuilder), workers (coming soon) and entrepreneurs to market. Specifically:

    - I lead, manage, inspire and build Studio's engineering and data science team, while helping individuals on my team reach their career goals. The engineering team is staffed with 8 full time engineers, 4 contractors, and a rotating cast of 2 to 4 interns.

    - I develop agile and scalable engineering standards, processes, workflows and schedules to deliver our web products (React, Node, Rails) in a highly regulated environment.

    - I work with stakeholders in Product, Design and Business Development to ensure engineering is moving in lockstep with the business.

    - I set the engineering roadmap and priorities and run day to day operations effectively, which includes executing on our product roadmap while updating and maintaining our current product suite.

    - I participate in quarterly and annual budget planning for the Studio organization, and execute and track the engineering organization's spend against that budget.
    Mozilla
    Mozilla
    Senior Mobile Engineering Manager 2017 - 2019 (about 2 years)
    - Mentored and managed a distributed team of 4 mobile software engineers.
    - Ensure that the software my team delivers is high quality, measurable, and maintainable.
    -... more Anticipate headcount needs for the team and recruit to fill these needs.
    - Communicate the roadmap, scope and risks of my projects, and lead the delivery of major initiatives on clear timelines.
    - Created an environment in which team members are continuously challenged and exposed to new opportunities.
    Lookout
    Lookout
    Solutions Architect 2012 - 2017 (about 4 years)
    Architected the technical specification and subsequent software development of carrier-specific versions of the Lookout for iOS client. Interfaced with both internal and outsourced... more development teams and managed them through the software development lifecycle to deliver a co-branded iOS client on time and per specification. I led the development of Lookout for iOS for KDDI: http://siliconangle.com/blog/2014/10/06/lookouts-big-in-japan-where-smartphone-users-will-pay-275-to-protect-data/
    YP
    YP
    Executive Director Engineering: Emerging Products 2009 - 2012 (about 3 years)
    Gunderson Dettmer
    Gunderson Dettmer
    Employee
    Wren
    Wren
    Climate Project Backer 2019 - 2024 (almost 5 years)
    Wren is a Public Benefit Corporation with a mission to end the climate crisis.

    Thousands of people from over 100 countries have come together to raise money to fund... more the climate solutions our planet needs—before it’s too late. ? ?

    Anyone in the world can become a Climate Project Backer on Wren.

    Climate change is the biggest threat humanity has ever faced—but together we can fix it.

    Learn more and join me on Wren, here: https://wren.co/join/susheel
    Self-Employed
    Self-Employed
    Angel Investor 2014 - 2024 (over 10 years)
    I've made angel investments (check size from $1000 to $25000) in various startups, including:

    SpeedLegal: https://speedlegal.io/
    Waydev: https://waydev.co/
    Kuri:... more https://kuri.co/
    Wren: https://www.wren.co/
    Kencko: https://www.kencko.com/
    KidNation: https://www.kidnation.com/
    Wager Games: https://www.wager.games/
    HitRecord: https://hitrecord.org/
    Cece's Veggie Co: https://cecesveggieco.com/
    OneSignal: https://onesignal.com/
    Weave (exited via IPO): https://www.getweave.com/
    Haven Servicing: https://www.havenservicing.com/
    Knightscope (exited via IPO): https://www.knightscope.com/
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    Employee
    Lookout, Mozilla, Gunderson Dettmer, YP, Self-Employed, Wren, Citi Ventures, HeadSpin, Capital One, Voltage Park, StrongSuit
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    Projects
    HeadSpin
    HeadSpin enables testing and monitoring of mobile, web, audi
    Product Engineering Lead · HeadSpin enables testing and monitoring of mobile, web, audio/video applications in real-time with AI based insights.… · More Connect now!

    • Led the white-labeling initiative of the HeadSpin platform, resulting in its rebranding and resale as Tricentis Device Cloud, generating half a million in revenue within six months of launch.
    • Spearheaded the specification and development of a redesigned media testing product, securing a million dollar renewal from a key customer.
    • Managed the customer feedback funnel, collaborating with sales, success, engineering, and C-level teams to prioritize the product roadmap, which supported the renewal of five million in ARR.
    • Implemented a product analytics platform to monitor critical web product KPIs, enhancing user experience and system performance.
    • Managed a team of six full stack web engineers, a product designer, and a technical writer.
    CityBuilder
    Where private capital meets public growth.
    City Builder gives investors the data and information they need to make informed decisions about investments that can increase capital and build stronger… · More communities. By collecting numerous datasets from thoroughly vetted private and government organizations, City Builder provides unique socioeconomic insights in both urban and rural areas across the United States.
    Worthi
    Upskilling Platform for US Workers
    Engineering Manager · Worthi is a free tool that identifies which of your skills are in demand and connects you with online courses to grow your… · More skills. Worthi can also identify how your skills transfer to new opportunities and what skills you'll need to make the transition.
    Firefox Mobile
    Firefox is a privacy-focused browser
    An overview of all Firefox mobile browsers (Firefox for Android, Firefox for iOS, Firefox Focus)
    FireFox Focus
    Lightweight Privacy Search Browser
    Engineering Manager · I managed the Firefox Focus mobile engineering team.

    Firefox Focus for iOS. Contribute to mozilla-mobile/focus-ios… · More development by creating an account on GitHub.
    Reid Gustavson
    With Reid Gustavson
    Lookout
    Lookout is a Mobile Security App for iOS & Android
    "[Lookout CASB] provides differentiated capabilities such as native Rights Management, Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), Email protection, and… · More end-to-end data protection with common enterprise SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS applications." KuppingerCole Market Compass: CASB 2021, Mike Small
     
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    About
    Achievements

    I've built and managed teams that shipped products that have been used by millions of users:
    * HeadSpin, a mobile device cloud with a AI analytics
    * Firefox Focus, the premier privacy-centric browser for Android & iOS
    * Lookout, the premier security app for iOS and Android
    * AT&T In-App Ads, a mobile ad network focused on HyperLocal ads for SMBs. http://www.attinteractive.com/connect-with-us/publishers
    * Plusmo Sports Apps, popular US-sports focused Apps for iOS and Android. http://phandroid.com/2009/09/30/att-purchases-plusmo-oh-noes/
    * Plusmo Mobile SDK, a 'write once, run anywhere' JavaScript platform for iOS & Android
    * LimeWire, a p2p file sharing gnutella client. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LimeWire
    * Gnutelligence, an advertising platform for gnutella. http://www.zeropaid.com/news/5506/sponsored_gnutella_search_results/

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    Skills
    Java C Javascript Objective-C HTML Android iOS Development Advanced Network Infrastructures Ant Architect C++ Design Patterns Eclipse Git Jenkins Linux Management Maven Microsoft Windows MySQL Networking Operating Systems Project Management Redis REST Ruby on Rails Software Software Development Svn TDD Web Services Web Technologies Xcode Ruby iOS Kotlin Apache Maven Node.js Windows CSS AI React.js SQL Swift
    Locations
    San Francisco Bay Area Oakland Orinda
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