About

I am currently the VP of Engineering at Harvey, where I’m responsible for the Engineering, AI, Security, and Legal Research teams.

Previously, I was a Senior Director of Engineering at Figma, where I supported the teams working on FigJam, Figma Slides, and other new product initiatives.

Prior to Figma, I served as the CTO at Branch, where I led the engineering team during a time of rapid growth and expansion into multiple markets. One of the highlights of my time at Branch was building out a distributed product and engineering team across 3 different continents (Africa, Asia, and North America).

Prior to Branch, I was a startup founder at Rep, where we attempted to revolutionize how customers communicate with businesses via messaging. We were funded by Accel, First Round, and others, and helped brands such as M.Gemi, M.M.LaFleur, and Timbuk2 deliver superb customer experiences. Rep was acquired by Stripe in 2018.

I started my career at Google, where I built YouTube’s Recommendation and Personalization teams from the ground up. During my time at YouTube the homepage’s traffic grew to hundreds of millions of monthly active users and billions of daily views. Our work on the recommendation system was honored with a Technology Emmy Award in 2014 and we also published multiple papers and patents on our work. Prior to YouTube I also worked on Google Search Ranking & Infrastructure, and various other large-scale recommendation systems.

Outside of work, I’m a huge nerd, fitness enthusiast, and family man. I like to spend time with my wife and three sons, try my hands at new recipes in the kitchen or dabble in photography or writing. More recently, I’ve also become interested in chess, mostly playing blitz and rapid on lichess.org. If there’s any time left in the day, I might go for a run, play tennis, or squeeze in a workout at home.