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    Vlad Giverts

    Vlad Giverts

    Former CTO, now Leadership Coach

    Entrepreneur Utrecht University Of Califor...
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    Soft Side of Tech
    Soft Side of Tech
    Coach of Purposeful Leadership 2017 - Present (over 9 years)
    I work with leaders who want to cultivate a deeper sense of purpose in their lives. They have proven their competence on many levels over their years and we meet at a point... more in their journey where their way of being in the world–that had gotten them this far–is starting to show its wear. They sense that there might be a different way forward where the path isn’t as rocky and the hills not as steep.

    Read on at https://softsideoftech.com
    Clara
    Clara
    Head of Engineering 2016 - 2017 (about 1 year)
    [Aquired by SoFi]

    Clara was building a modern lending platform to eliminate the billions of dollars and thousands of hours of waste in the $10 trillion mortgage market... more with the goal of passing their savings on to home buyers.

    I managed Engineering and DevOps and acted as the overall architect. In my first 6 months at Clara, I restructured the development and hiring process and doubled the team to 25 engineers.
    Workday
    Workday
    Partner at Workday Ventures 2015 - 2016 (about 1 year)
    Invested in data startups:

    http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2015/07/14/why-workday-started-a-venture-fund/
    Sr Director of Software Engineering 2014 - 2016 (about 2 years)
    Led the former Identified team to create a new product category called Insight Applications:
    http://nyti.ms/1wxEYK2

    Scaled the product & engineering team to... more more than 50 people

    Using machine learning to add predictions and recommendations to Workday's applications to help some of the world’s largest companies (ie Workday customers) make strategic decisions about their employees and financial strategies
    Identified
    Exit
    Identified
    Founder, CTO 2011 - 2014 (about 2 years)
    Built the predictive technology behind Identified Recruit to take on LinkedIn.
    Ran the product/engineering team and scaled it to 30 people.
    Oversaw the technology... more architecture and created SYMAN: http://tcrn.ch/144dUBU

    Some of our press:

    http://www.forbes.com/sites/joshbersin/2014/02/27/workday-acquires-identified-a-potential-disruptive-move-in-recruiting/
    if(we)
    if(we)
    Java Architect 2007 - 2009 (over 1 year)
    During this time, Tagged was one of the largest social networks in the world (#3 in the US in 2009) focused on Social Discovery and Gaming.
    It was unique in being able... more to grow its user base and revenues during the FB era while most other social networks were decimated.

    Led architecture with an eye for high-scalability. Built out high scale/low latency search systems and high-throughput transactional backends.
    Lionside
    Lionside
    Director of Engineering 2010 - 2011 (about 1 year)
    Lionside aspired to be the "EA Sports of Social Games."

    Effectively the first employee. Built the dev team of 15 engineers, architected the technology platform, and... more launched 2 successful Facebook games including the official NBA game on Facebook.
    VuMedi
    VuMedi
    Founder, CTO 2007 - 2010 (about 2 years)
    VuMedi is an online community exclusively for physicians, sometimes known as the "Youtube for Surgeons". It's used by hundreds of thousands of physicians around the world... more and has revolutionized post-medical school education for those who participate in it.
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    Identified, VuMedi, Soft Side of Tech
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    Quinstreet, Lionside, if(we), Workday, Clara, Soft Side of Tech
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    Scaled the engineering teams and launched successful products across multiple startups, two of which were profitably acquired and two are still in business and going strong.

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