Tailor AI

Cofounder & CEO

Magical

Led Engineering for Magical 🚀⚙️🪄
- grew eng team from 14 to 21 & balanced team diversity
- established 3 product tracks with em/pm/design leads
- built out full data stack (segment, snowflake, DBT)
- pivoted company to gen-ai
- completed SOC2 certification
- significantly improved app performance & quality
- drove user engagement with key features by simplifying experience
- rolled out self-serve & sales-assisted monetization

More about Magical: With no integrations and a simple keystroke, Magical lets anyone automate soul-crushing tasks by moving data between tabs. Populate messages, sheets & forms without the time-consuming copy-paste. More magic coming soon! 🪄

Install and set up in seconds for free --> getmagical.com

hiring awesome people --> getmagical.com/careers

Why join? 
🚀 Early hyper-growth Series A start-up with $41M in funding
📈 Product Led Growth with 0 → 500,000 users at 18,000 companies in under 2 years 
🌱 Career growth. Be the first and lead as the team grows!
💚 BIG vision. A+ team.

Head of Engineering

LinkedIn

Led engineering for LinkedIn Learning. Responsible for the Learning Experience for both the Consumer & Enterprise businesses, along with Growth engineering for Consumer and online Enterprise monetization. Leading 75 engineers across Web, Backend, iOS and Android platforms.

Additional roles:

Tech diligence & integration for EduBrite acquisition (powering learning assessments)
Modernized Learning Search AI stack and experience.
Deeply integrated Learning with core LinkedIn experience (feed, profile, notifications, search).
Interim Director for Enterprise Growth org, including enterprise integrations/auth/activations/product configuration/insights. Focused on creating a strong Eng + Product partnership. 
Bootstrapped & led the Consumer Growth org.
Built the original Learning team and Alpha/Beta/GA of LinkedIn Learning product.
Co-led integration of Lynda team / product into LinkedIn ($1.5B Acquisition)

Director Of Engineering

Led engineering for LinkedIn Learning MVP, bringing together LinkedIn & Lynda. Responsible for eng design, implementation, & launch of LinkedIn Learning. Led scrappy team of engineers across Web, Backend, iOS and Android platforms. (Sept 2015 - Sept 2016)

Led engineering and product for the Pulse Relevance team. Leveraged LinkedIn's unique data to surface timely, must-read, professional content. (Jan 2015 - Sept 2015) 

Led Pulse App engineering through acquisition and evolution into LinkedIn Pulse. LinkedIn Pulse delivers timely information and insights to all professionals on mobile, web, email, and embedded into other LinkedIn products. (Apr 2013 - Dec 2014) 

Led acquisition & integration of Newsle to power detection of connections mentioned in the news. (July 2014)

Senior Engineering Manager

Led Pulse App engineering through acquisition and evolution into LinkedIn Pulse. LinkedIn Pulse delivers timely information and insights to all professionals on mobile, web, email, and embedded into other LinkedIn products. (Apr 2013 - Dec 2014)

Engineering Manager

Pulse

Pulse is a beautiful application that makes reading news fun and engaging. It has been named to Apple’s App Store Hall of Fame, chosen as an Android Editor’s Choice app, selected as one of TIME’s top 50 iPhone apps of 2011, and honored with an Apple Design Award.

Pulse was acquired by LinkedIn in April 2013.

Role / Highlights:
- Founding engineer, architect, and backend team lead.
- Scaled backend systems from 200K to 25M+ users.
- Directly responsible for growing backend / data / machine learning teams.
- Architected scalablible and fault tolerant systems that leverage a distributed architecture from the beginning.
- Focused on rapid product iteration and minimizing dev/ops time.

Major projects / systems:

Content Serving - Efficiently fetches, stores, and serves mobile optimized content from thousands of feeds to 25M+ users, with the ability to insert targeted promoted content.

Mobile/Web API - Provides users with a consistent identity and experience across mobile devices and the web. Efficiently synchronizes user-customized source subscriptions, preferences, premium services, and real-time social conversations. Provides a curated and personalized source catalog.

Switchboard - Server-side configuration and A/B testing for mobile applications.

Event Logging & Data Products - Collects event logs directly from millions of mobile devices and prepares them for large scale analytics via EMR and Hive. This data is then used as the basis for algorithmically curated content feeds, personalized source/story recommendations and custom analytics.

For more detail on projects see:
- http://eng.pulse.me/category/backend/
- https://github.com/gregbayer
- http://gbayer.com/blog/

Press for Backend Engineering @ Pulse:
- http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2012/02/pulse-using-big-data-analytics-to-drive-rich-user-features-.html
- http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2011/11/scaling-with-kindle-fire.html

VP Platforms / Backend Engineering Lead (acq by LinkedIn)

Sandia National Laboratories

• Led Hadoop-based data mining and graph algorithms research team.
-- Researched and implemented algorithms for large power-law skewed datasets.
-- Developed interactive graph visualization tool based on Prefuse vis package.
-- Developed machine-learning capability via Apache Mahout.

• Led development of terabyte-scale network packet analysis capability.

• Led research effort to integrate Hadoop and HPC systems.

• Purchased, deployed, and administered 70 node Hadoop cluster. Administered two smaller clusters.

• Compared Hadoop to commercial big-data appliances from Netezza, XtremeData, and LexisNexis. Published and presented results: http://bit.ly/d10lTy

• Developed capability to extract and collect malicious urls from spam and botnet generated email.
-- Efficiently collected over 5 million unique domains and urls.

Senior Member of Technical Staff

Lightspeed

Prototyped and launched mobile messaging app (ZapText) that allowed users to quickly compose context-aware messages. Role: Co-Founder & CTO

Lightspeed Summer Fellowship Program

Stanford University

Programmable Open Mobile Internet (POMI) Research.  http://pomi.stanford.edu/

- Platforms for mobile/social interaction
- Visualization of Distributed, Shared, Mobile Data
- Attribute-based Access Control
- Semantic Web

Computer Science Research Assistant

Member of Technical Staff
- Project Lead for enterprise workflow project: 
Led team of 5 developers. Customized J2EE Business Process Management (BPM) engine.  Interfaced system with Sandia's infrastructure and 15+ custom applications.

- Technical lead for radiation dose calculation application:
Developed J2EE application to support Sandia's dosimetry lab and 3000+ dosimeters.

- Application deployment access control and tracking.
Developed J2EE inventory and access control application. Supports 150+ applications.

- Developed web-based reporting application.

- Taught regular classes and tutorial sessions on J2EE software development.

Software Engineer / Project Lead

Building something new! 🚀 

Previously: 

🪄 💻 Led Engineering for Magical - Magical lets anyone automate soul-crushing tasks by easily moving data between tabs.

🎬 🎓 Director of Engineering for LinkedIn Learning - helping professionals & organizations develop the skills they need to succeed. 

📰  🧠 Led Pulse News Relevance for LinkedIn. Delivered timely, must-read, professional content to the LinkedIn Feed via AI and human curation.

📰 🕸️ Led LinkedIn Content Distribution & Pulse App including iOS, Android and Server engineering teams. Helped build an exceptional mobile-first experience to deliver timely information and insights to all professionals.

📰 📱Founding engineer, architect, and the backend team lead at Pulse. Scaled backend systems to 25M+ users, was directly responsible for growing backend / data / machine learning teams, and architected scalable and fault tolerant systems that leverage a distributed architecture from the beginning.

🔒🐘 Senior staff member at Sandia Labs. Started/led the Hadoop research program. 

📲 Masters research at Stanford focused on platforms for mobile/social interaction.

Specialties: Technical Leadership, Engineering & Product Management, AI, Team Culture, Design Thinking, User Experience, Architecture, Performance, Scalability,  Data Products, Relevance, Hadoop, Google App Engine, AWS, Security

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