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Head of Engineering

Delivered February 2, 2020. Contributor: Mik W.

Goals

To identify 15 individuals for a Head of Engineering position with 10+ years of experience in a startup environment and tech stack knowledge (Java, iOS, MySQL, Android, AWS, Spark, R, MongoDB).

Early Findings

1. CJ Jouhal  

2. Jean Barmash  
  • Current Position: CVP Engineering at Komodo Health
  • Location: New York, New York
  • Profile: LinkedIn 
  • "Technology and product executive with many years of accomplishment in technical management, software architecture and hands-on software engineering."
  • "CTO and VP Engineering roles at several B2B SaaS startups in hyper-growth phase."

3. Leo Kim  

4. Jason Pelzer
  • Current Position: SVP Product Engineering at Showtime Networks Inc.
  • Location: Greater New York City
  • Profile: LinkedIn 
  • Education: Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  • "Technology executive with 15+ years of professional engineering and management experience with up to 50 person teams. A leader, builder, mentor, and motivator. An engineer who values communication and getting things done. "
  • "Knowledge of software development and architecture, managing multiple interdependent software development projects with differing methodologies and release cycles ."
  • "Hands-on developer (Java, PHP, .NET, Ruby), with 10+ years Java experience with Spring, Guice, Hadoop, Mongo, Morphia, Hibernate, Kestrel, AOP, etc"
5. Tim Julien

6. Ankur Khanna
  • Current Position: Head, Digital Engineering & Innovation for L'Oreal 
  • Location: Greater New York City
  • Profile: LinkedIn 
  • Education: Masters of Science in Computer Science from Columbia University
  • More than 10 years of work experience.
  • "Leading digital technology strategy and engineering with a focus on Omni-Channel CX, Open E-Commerce, CRM/CDP and Mobile Solutions."

Summary:

  • For the initial hour we were able to identify 6 individuals in New York City with a Head of Engineering position or similar position, with 10+ years of work experience and with some of the requested tech stack knowledge.
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Proposed next steps:

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We recommend continuing the research to try to identify 9 more individuals with a Head of Engineering position or similarly titled position in New York City, with 10+ years of experience in either product management or as an individual contributor and team manager in a B2C startup background and with tech stack knowledge (in either Java, iOS, MySQL, Android, AWS, Spark, R, MongoDB). (Other optional qualities can include people management or proven communication skills, customer-focused product development experience, exposure to frameworks like Play, Ember and programmatic platforms, Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering or equivalent experience, or MS, MBA or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or other related fields)
Alternatively, we can expand the search area to include nearby cities. We recommend identifying a total of 15 individuals with a Head of Engineering position or similarly titled position in either Jersey City, Newark, Philadelphia, Baltimore, or Boston with 10+ years of experience in either product management or as an individual contributor and team manager in a B2C startup background and with tech stack knowledge (in either Java, iOS, MySQL, Android, AWS, Spark, R, MongoDB). (Other optional qualities can include people management or proven communication skills, customer-focused product development experience, exposure to frameworks like Play, Ember and programmatic platforms, Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering or equivalent experience, or MS, MBA or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or other related fields)