California State University-Sacramento

Founder at Agent, Inc.

Head of Engineering and general operations at post-seed stage company that builds cloud PLM for distributed hardware teams. Leading 25 distributed Engineers across four teams — Application, Integrations, DevEx, & API.

Duro

Senior Director of Engineering

Led teams. Developed org roadmap with applied OKR strategies. A people-first Engineering leader building team process and culture through strategic planning that aligned business vision/priorities with technology. Optimized developer productivity through SPACE framework for high efficiency fostering a high-trust/low-blame culture, increasing weekly shipping cycle times by 1.5x, balancing delivery of fulfilling challenges and people happiness across mobile, web, data, qa, and fullstack teams.

Advised and partnered in management development through educational programs to grow Route's leaders, leveling up several engineers to leads, and leads to managers. Lead performance reviews and calibration feedback cycles. Advised on understanding engineering productivity metrics (DORA) that made impact to 50 engineers. Contributed to leadership hiring playbook.

Route

Mobile Director

Led team from 0 to 1 in areas of platform architecture, APIs, and data warehousing/analytics to ship a production MVP. I managed distributed remote teams of 15 engineers, set quarterly engineering budgets and KPI's, established an end-to-end hiring process conducting an average of 5 screens per week, and provided meaningful coaching through mentorship and advisory techniques guiding engineers and team leads with fulfilling challenges to help scale the future development of the company.

AWS, Heroku • Node.js, Redis, Postgres • CI/CD, GitHub • Ashby, Greenhouse, LinkedIn • Mixpanel, Metabase, Data warehousing, Intercom • Google/Yelp APIs: Maps, Places, Distance Matrix, Photos • Cloud, CDN Storage • Linear, Product Board, Agile, scrum

Torres & Diaz LLC

VP of Engineering at It's Good

Managed team of 25 across engineering, product, design, and research, executing company vision with technology through OKR strategies.

Spear-headed end-to-end hiring efforts; from initial stages of recruiting, scheduling, conducting near daily phone screens, setting up full panel interview loops, to the final negotiation stages and offer.

Director of Engineering at Lightspeed

I led core aspects of the company's growth and development, including software engineering on web and mobile, product development, research, analytics, and marketing.

I helped successfully close $5M in seed funding from strategic allied angel partners, and grew the company to 40 employees across the globe.

Agent, Inc.

Chief Technology Officer

Agent (now inactive) was a SASS marketplace to book models, actors, and other industry talent attracting over 75,000 active independent creators and 3,000 clients within the U.S. that aimed to cut out middlemen (talent agencies), providing PCI compliant payment solutions and invoicing, portfolio media hosting, booking/scheduling tools, algorithmic job matching, AI talent searching, casting management, and advanced top of industry clout analytics.

Chief Executive Officer

Mix began as a co-op product between Garrett Camp (founder of Uber) myself, and a third cofounder. Together we collaborated to create something that mixed each of our interests and backgrounds (pun intended, of course). With my experience in developing social networks, and Garretts profound knowledge in content discovery (StumbleUpon), we created an idea that allows users to discover, collect, and share content with like-minded friends. Mix remains in the AppStore today with over 30,000 creators.

Mix.com

Principal Engineer

Primary frontend strategist at the 500 employee company, upleveling the quality of the the petition website used by 50 million people globally by setting best-practice language authorship guides for JavaScript, CSS, and HTML. Led technical guidance on performance benchmarks, including reducing rendering speeds to sub 150ms and overall perceived latency by 2x according to qualitative studies by introducing optimistic UI techniques.

Migrated the web application from a Ruby on Rails monolith to a robust single page application API client utilizing Node.js/npm.

Change.org

Principal Software Architect

Senior Staff Fullstack Engineer, initially developed core backend architecture. Creator of the Frontend Editor writing experience.

Medium

Founding Staff Software Engineer

• Early Twitter employee, first Frontend Engineer
• Designed & Developed Twitter Search Widget (response for 1/3 of all Search Traffic)
• @Anywhere Platform Creator
• Lead Engineer on Twitter.com 2010 Re-Architecture. Most notable implementations included embedded media, profile cards, and infinite scrolling
• Creator of web embedable Follow & Tweet Buttons

Twitter

Senior Frontend Engineer

• Adwords, GMail, Google Buzz.
• Taught most successful EngEDU course in Google's History called "HTML, CSS, & JavaScript from the Ground up"
• Lead prototyper creating exploratory rich UIs used for RITE studies, then graduated usable pieces into Google's main UI library (Closure).

Google

Web Developer

• built and maintained the Small Business Checkout system
• Instrumental in frontend development for a new product called Y Site Builder, a multi-tenant SASS product designed to assist small businesses in creating, designing, and launching their own websites. I soley created the domain sale and checkout experience, page builder, and content editor, which later was recognized with a Yahoo Purple Star, a highly prestigious internal award for exceptional product achievements.

Yahoo

Software Engineer

• Fullstack engineering, creating websites for professional athletes and collegiate sports teams. Highlighted clients included 
• American marathon record holder Deena Kastor
• Quarterback Brett Favre
• Detroit Piston Tayshaun Prince

Created CMS administration portals for athletes/agents to manage their own websites.

Dustin Diaz