University of Waterloo

CTO at Clout Jam

Your influence starts here.
Clout Jam offers tools, guidance, and community to help manage and grow your business as a creator.

Part of 500 Startups Batch 27
Watch the pitch: <a href="https://youtu.be/FcfAi3fAdg0?t=4377">https://youtu.be/FcfAi3fAdg0?t=4377</a>

Clout Jam

Outer Labs

Software Developer

Mannr helps men achieve their best selves by offering professional stylists to shop fashion over messaging.

We're a DMZ Incubator company.

Mannr

Cofounder & CTO

Localyyz is a fashion e-commerce startup curating the best deals and products on a simple to use app. Fashion is a huge market where choices are limited by large corporations who have their best interest in mind. We're taking a value first approach, curating the best deals and giving the shoppers more choices to find the best price and product combination anywhere, all in an easy to use mobile interface.

Currently apart of the DMZ sandbox program (as well a member of MaRS program), Localyyz is looking to bring the next chapter to the fashion e-commerce space.

Find us on iOS app store today.

Localyyz

Acquired by Snaptravel in 2020

As one of the first startups coining the term "conversational commerce", Chatkit is the leading solution for AI conversation marketing. Chatkit's platform enables merchants to lost revenues otherwise unreachable by conventional marketing strategies.

- Conversational retargeting lets merchants recapture shopping cart abandoners with one click, and incentivize people to return to your store and complete their purchase."

Chatkit

Acquired by Vision Critic in 2017

Pressly is the best way to aggregate the right content for your audience and establish your brand as a thought leader in your industry.

Pressly

Acquired by Visual China Group in 2018

Developed micro-service oriented architecture to work in sync with the legacy monolith Rails application.

Architected timeline based micro-service used to generate user activity feeds on top of SoundCloud's Roshi, with streaming input via AWS Kinesis.

Monitor throughputs and perform "game days" to test and discover fault behaviours of existing systems.

500px

Web Developer

Acquired by Rubicon Project Inc in 2015.

Daily oversight of real-time bidding system written in Golang and Python.

Cowrote and implemented a C/Golang Aerospike UDF wrapper system, enabling real time access to user search data, impression frequencies and exchange mappings at bid time.

Works daily with media exchange networks (ie Yahoo RMX, Google Adx, etc)

Corewrote real-time bid monitoring system (ADF) in Golang, improving speed, stability and accuracy. 

Improved and implemented a query-able events stream using Elasticsearch API. Migrated live data stream system from Python to Golang.

Chango

Infrastructure RTB (Real-time Bidding) system at Chango consists of in-house developed Adservers, Collectors and Bidders written in Python. Helped maintain a cluster of servers and ensured smooth operation of daily bidding on Exchange networks, data collection and Ad serving. Worked with Facebook Exchange and ensured smooth integration into Chango's existing RTB system, basically enabling advertisers to buy ads on Facebook using Google search data.

Worked with Disco distributed file system (DDFS), map/reduce library Inferno. kyotocabinet hash-mapped key-value store, HP Vertica, Postgresql. Python socket ZMQ, CI Service Jenkins. 

Downtime personal projects included data visualization using d3 on incoming search term collections, internal hardware page (SoftLayer API) for hardware reboot/ticketing.

Infrastructure Engineer

Developed Ruby on Rails and Python Django dashboard. Maintained old reporting console in Rails. Phased it out for a newer and better maintained version in Python Django. Developed a multi-application django project for both external and internal interfaces. External web application lies completely on top of customly developed API, uses AJAX to obtain/update data from/to server. Optimized client facing system, worked to improve speed and stability. Other experiences includes deployment process using Fabric (django application) and Puppet (in usage with Nagios). Query caching (memcached).

Dashboard Engineer

M&A with Playhaven in 2013, became Upsight

Created an annotation system for the graphical chart (AMCharts) from the ground up and to develop a javascript/AJAX standard on data/settings loading for AMcharts. The product was successfully deployed with much customer approval.

Paul Xue