Striim

Lead a high-performing, multidisciplinary team comprising software engineers, data engineers, product managers, and enablement leaders in developing Striim's self-service capabilities.

* Create a real-time user 360 with data pipelines leveraging change data capture, salesforce ELT, BigQuery, and dbt. Actively working on enhancing user insights with AI.  

* Spearheaded the design and deployment of Striim Developer, the industry's pioneering serverless platform for real-time analytics. This innovation led to a 100% increase in Striim's user base within one year.

* Innovated a seamless self-service experience and inbound user journey for Striim Cloud, Striim's flagship solution for fully managed enterprise data streaming. This strategic move facilitated the conversion of significant six-figure ACV deals originating from organic SaaS sign-ups.

* Engaged directly with key customers on strategic projects, delivering impactful business results. A notable achievement was co-presenting with American Airlines at the Data + AI Summit, showcasing our collaborative success.

* Forged and nurtured a collaborative relationship with Snowflake's product teams, culminating in the successful launch of Striim on Snowflake Partner Connect, enhancing our market presence and product interoperability.

Director of Product & Engineering: Data and AI

Enabling the world's largest companies take action on mission critical, real-time data. Just scraping the surface and can't wait to announce what we're launching next. 

Things I work on:

* Leading an amazing cross-functional team of analysts, growth product managers/marketers, and engineers

* Self-Service, Fully managed Data Pipelines for Snowflake – Led cross-functional team of UX, front-end, fullstack and platform (backend) engineers to launch self-experience to load millions of records into Snowflake via Snowflake Partner Connect. Worked with stakeholders at Snowflake Product Management to support 1-click launch from Snowflake Partner Connect for their customers. 

* Working directly with enterprise customers to solve their toughest data challenges with Striim; offering a combination of product enablement and strategic feature enhancements. My #1 goal is helping customers execute their strategic data-driven initiatives (and using Striim along the way).

* Launched product-led go-to-market motion. We delivered the fastest customer-acquisition journey from trial to revenue (6-figure ARR subscription customers) in company history. Delivered 30x ROI on initiatives, new enterprise customers, expansion of existing customers while operating on less than 2% of company revenue. 

* A PLG data stack (ELT, data warehouse, BI) to create a 360-degree view of our customers and growth funnels.

Director of Product, Growth

Building a seamless user experience to capture, analyze, and act on data-in-motion. 

My projects include overall UX, tracking growth and retention metrics, our Flow Designer interface, our end-to-end integration wizards, monitor UI, and cloud marketplace listings

http://www.striim.com/

Product Manager

Front-end:

* Monitor UI - real-time visualization of health metrics from our distributed data processing cluster

* Source Preview - Self-service data transformation and field extraction from unstructured log data. 

Platform

* Performed benchmarks on product integrations with ElasticSearch. The end result was the product team decided to move forward and implement ES as the search layer of the product. 

* Built a lucene search engine on HBase

Software Engineer

Generation Ventures

Early stage venture investment firm focused on partnering with exceptionally thoughtful, resilient, tenacious, intellectually curious and complementary founders with massively scalable ideas across Enterprise Software and Big Idea Consumer.

If this sounds like your business, please feel free to connect with me at john@generationvc.com

We provide our amazing founders access to a deep ecosystem of strategic senior level executives from many of the Bay Areas best growth companies, many of whom advise them on how best to approach product market fit and go to market strategy. In certain instances, top level personnel hires come out of these interactions, as well as valuable corporate partnerships.

For more details, please view our website: Generationvc.com

Partner & Adviser

GrowthMentor

Offering advice and mentorship on the following topics...

🖥 Building a growth tech stack from scratch (segment, clearbit, Mixpanel GA)

📈Building a growth analytics stack to measure key metrics (ELT, dbt, data warehouse, BI)

💵 Startup fundraising

🔎SEO, paid search, paid social for B2B companies

😀 User activation flows and UX

https://app.growthmentor.com/mentors/john-kutay

Mentor

Strikedeck, a Medallia company

Customer success automation platform used by many top SaaS companies.

Invested in the seed round alongside other prominent Silicon Valley enterprise software founders/execs.

Successfully sold to Medallia (Symbol: MDLA) in May 2019.

Investor

University of San Francisco Computer Science

Worked with Professor Sami Rollins on NSF-funded research project on mobile device-based management of energy consumption in homes. Developed a high-speed data caching layer to improve query/lookup times in the mobile client.

Research Assistant

Gauda

Engineering Intern

Product @ Striim | Host of “What’s New In Data” 📰

Product person & creator. 

Transitioned to role in Product Management after 3 years as a Software Engineer. From a technical perspective – I'm interested in problems relating to concurrency, distributed computing, and some parts of theoretical computer science (graph algorithms, trees, efficient data structures). I am also interested in interactive visualizations of complex, multivariate data. 

You can view some of my work on github. 

www.github.com/capkutay

Specialties: Object-oriented programming, Server-side development, Java, C, Javascript, Data Visualization, Python.

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