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Opendoor Labs Inc. - Real Estate & FinTech - Los Angeles, CA

Sr. Engineering Manager (2022 - 2024)
Engineering Manager (2020 - 2022)

Eng leader responsible for the end-to-end Buyer experience across the web (Rails/React) and mobile (React Native) products.
Hired and managed 8-10 direct reports (across multiple teams) organized in cross-functional teams spanning eng / product / operations / design to deliver on business objectives in an OKR driven organization.
Accelerated impact by triaging workflow inefficiencies in engineering and design process.
Worked with product owners to balance innovation needs with long-term initatives driven by a technical roadmap.
Eng leader responsible for scaling the Buyer Product to 53 markets in 2023.
Led the team that built and scaled Opendoor Backed Offers (Cash Offers) which has serviced over 1B+ in inventory.
Supported various Buyer eng teams serving as the eng manager throughout my tenure: Buyer Products, Buy+Finance (Mortgage), Market Expansion, Winning Offers (Cash Offers), Buyer Engagement, and Retail.

Wag! Labs Inc. - OnDemand Pet Marketplace - West Hollywood, CA

Sr. Mobile Engineering Manager (2019 - 2020)
iOS Engineering Manager (2018 - 2019)
Lead iOS Engineer (2017 - 2018)

Started as a hands-on technical lead and grew responsibilties to supporting the entire mobile product across (iOS + Android).
Directly managed a team of 16+ engineers (iOS + Android) as the leader responsible for all mobile engineering.
Supported engineering in a high-growth, fast paced experiment driven organization.
Managed a weekly release train process across all our mobile products, including managing an iOS enterprise distributed app.
Helped scale the mobile team workflows and process to meet the needs of the business, including scaling the iOS team from 2 to 10+ engineers. Was hands on in the sourcing, recruiting, evaluation and onboarding of all mobile team members.
Experience working in an (On-demand) services marketplace product: app for dog walkers + app for dog owners.

Cirruspath Inc - Enterprise CRM - Irvine, CA

Director of Mobile Development (2016 - 2017)
Sr. Mobile Software Engineer (iOS) (2014 - 2016)

Hired and scaled a cross-functional eng team: Eng (iOS, Android and BE) / QA / PM / Design.
Led a team of in-house and off-shore resources to support the mobile products.
Served as a hands-on technical leader spliting time between leadership and IC needs.
Built Cirrus Insight Mobile, a custom email client built natively using (obj-c and java).
Worked alongside the team to ship SaaS features for enteprise users (Fortune 100 customers).

Onescreen Inc - Ad Tech & Streaming - Irvine, CA

Software Engineer - Consumer Applications (iOS) (2013 - 2014)

Created several consumer facing video streaming apps for iPad (Powerblock RTM and The Young Turks).
Responsible for all iOS projects and coordinated cross-platform development with other teams.
Developed and maintained proprietary iOS frameworks for use by Onescreen and its clients.
Built a native custom video player that complied with iAB VAST 3.0 and iAB VMAP 1.0 to support native ad integrations with adaptively streamed content.
Extensive experience with Apple HLS, mobile advertising and adaptive streaming technologies.

KTLA Inc. - News & Broadcasting - Hollywood, CA

Computer Tech - Dept of Engineering (2011 - 2013)

Built internal web apps (PHP / JS) to support custom workflows for the Sales & Research org.
Delivered custom tools that brought automation to existing IT workflows (C# / .NET).
Supported IT and eng needs that power live studio broadcast operations.

Education
B.Sci Computer Science - 2013
California Polytechnic State University, Pomona - Pomona, CA