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Building reliable EBT payment rails for online grocery purchases.

Cap Table Coalition

Gaingels

Telstra Ventures

Blackbird Ventures

Lightspeed Venture Partners

FundersClub

Citi Ventures

Transition Level

Y Combinator

Arizona State University

ASU RealmSpark

Forage is an online price comparison platform for grocery products. The users can compare the shopping list to nearby stores and find the best deals offered by the stores. Its partner's stores include Walmart, Ralphs, Food4Less, and more. The company offers mobile applications for Android and IOS devices.

Online price comparison platform for grocery products

Plane was an unreleased consumer application designed to facilitate urban exploration by allowing users to share and discover locations not typically indexed by other maps. For example, a Plane map would show all of the amenities available in a public park in addition to the park itself.

My co-founder and I mutually agreed to stop work on Plane in December.

As an engineer in growth, I worked on Netflix's signup flow. In my years at Netflix, I implemented several experiments to improve signup conversion, evaluated the results via A/B testing, then put the successful ones into production.

Foundation Capital

William Ackman

Redpoint Ventures

T. Rowe Price

2020 Ventures

Socialatom Group

Vulcan Capital

Pershing Square Holdings

Aglae Ventures

Everest Group

Scheuermann Investment

SoftBank Group Corp

Rowland VC

Equity West

Subscription-based online and offline video streaming platform. It offers streaming of a library of films and television programs, including those produced in-house. Its in-house developed content is in vernacular languages such as Spanish, Portuguese, Korean, Polish, Turkish, Hindi, and more. The application is available for Android and iOS users.

Subscription-based online and offline video streaming platform

In my final years at Uber, I applied machine learning to improve ETAs for Uber Eats, then switched back to the former Partnerships team to work on a new mandate: launching Uber's first rewards program for riders and drivers.

Rewards Experience: Assumed Backend Tech Lead role on newly founded Rewards Experience team responsible for customer-facing aspects of Uber Rewards. Tasked with improving program unit economics, led implementation of feature allowing users to select among several possible reward types instead of automatically receiving $5 in Uber Cash. Migrated from asynchronous to synchronous redemption API in a backward-compatible manner after evaluation of three architectures involving several teams. Onboarded senior engineer, enabling him to build experiment that shifted sales to from low to high margin products.

Loyalty Platform: Founding member of initiative to launch Uber Rewards and Uber Pro, Uber's rider and driver loyalty programs. Architected auditable configuration system such that it served both programs and accommodated future use cases. Ensured Sarbanes-Oxley and GDPR compliance. Drafted financial data contracts necessary for IPO readiness. Sequenced tasks across team to de-risk timeline. Accountable for launch readiness strategy. Rolled out to entire US customer base. Newsroom: Uber Rewards: (https://www.uber.com/newsroom/uber-rewards/) Uber Pro: (https://www.uber.com/newsroom/uberpro/)

Eats Marketplace Prediction: Utilized Michelangelo, Uber's in-house ML platform to experiment with features that improved accuracy of Uber Eats order ETAs. (https://eng.uber.com/michelangelo/)
            

    
    

    
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PayPal

Toyota

Sequoia Capital

Tencent

SoftBank Vision Fund

Fort Ross Ventures

Public Investment Fund

LetterOne

Tata Capital

Microsoft

Kingdom Holding Company

Goldman Sachs Investment Partners

Times Internet

Lauder Partners

Goldman Sachs

Alive Partners

FJ Labs

Fidelity Investments

Wellington Management

Menlo Ventures

Kleiner Perkins

New Enterprise Associates

Qatar Investment Authority

Lone Pine Capital

Valiant Capital Management

BlackRock

Summit Partners

Google Ventures

Shumway Capital

Man Capital

Benchmark

Bezos Expeditions

Alfred Lin

A-Grade Investments

First Round Capital

Lowercase Capital

Founder Collective

Kapor Capital

Lance Michael Comes

Jason Calacanis

Steve Jang

Bill Gurley

Justin Caldbeck

David Cohen

Christopher Kile

Troy Carter

Suzy Ryoo

Duarte Moreira

Alisher Usmanov

General Atlantic

Norwest Venture Partners

HarbourVest Partners

Tiger Global Management

Innovation Endeavors

Data Collective

Iconiq Capital

Industry Ventures

TrueBridge

TeleSoft Partners

TEV Ventures

Square Peg Capital

ACE and Company

Aster

Structure Capital

AppWorks

Archer Venture Capital

Valor Equity Partners

Glade Brook Capital

Raptor Group

Scott Belsky

SignalFire

RocketSpace

Darwin Ventures

AITV

Plus Capital

The Syndicate

Swordfish Investments

Olive Tree Capital

Lead Edge Capital

Level Ventures

Dragon Global

Method Advisors

Tao Capital Partners

HDS Capital

Think+

Signatures Capital

Cota Capital

Eastlink Capital

Black River Ventures

K2 Global

Cross Culture Ventures

Inbright

Frees Fund

Caspian Venture Capital

App-based platform offering ride-hailing and on-demand services. The platform enables users to book various services including taxi-hailing, food delivery, freight solutions, and more. It offers self-drive electric vehicle rentals, corporate transportation, and more. It also ventures into transit solutions in order to provide optimized travel agencies and transportation for users. It offers features like real-time tracking, variant payment options, and more. Their mobile app is available for both Android and iOS devices.

App-based platform offering ride-hailing and on-demand services

During my earliest days at Uber, I served as a backend engineer on the Global Partnerships team, responsible for crafting custom engineering solutions for Uber's partners. 

Android Pay: Implemented Android Pay in rider app as sole backend engineer. Built from the ground up in six weeks. Collaborated with stakeholders both internal and external (Google / Braintree) across a variety of job functions. (https://www.theverge.com/2016/5/3/11583028/uber-dropping-google-wallet-may-9-android-pay)

Veteran's Day 2015: Partnered with White House to collect donations from riders for homeless veterans on three weeks' notice. Implemented SMS-based donation collection. (https://techcrunch.com/2015/11/10/uber-and-lyft-join-forces-with-the-white-house-and-the-u-s-department-of-labor-to-offer-free-rides-to-veterans/)

Visa Local Offers: Helped build MVP for stealth launch of experiment in partnership with Visa to promote exclusive offers for local merchants within the rider app. Crafted web-based solution for surfacing dynamic content in app with no mobile changes. (https://techcrunch.com/2016/05/03/uber-offers/)
            

    
    

    
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In-Store Experience: Implemented APIs and administrative tooling behind redesigned Stores tab. Collaborated with product, design and mobile.

Gift Card Improvements: Integrated with Giftango's v2 redemption API. Utilized in-house mobile caching infrastructure to enable viewing of previously redeemed gift cards while offline. Mitigated effect of poor cellular connectivity within retail stores.

Greylock

SV Angel

SevenVentures

Simon Ventures

Shopkick is a hyperlocal mobile-app platform offering rewards and shopping assistance to consumers from national retail partners at thousands of stores and malls. It uses a location technology that allows the app to verify the user is actually present inside a store and rewards them for store visits. Its partners include Target, Macy’s, Old Navy, Best Buy, American Eagle, Crate & Barrel, Sports Authority, Toys”R” U etc.  It was acquired by SK Telecom in September of 2014 for $200M.

Hyperlocal mobile-app platform offering rewards and shopping assistance to consumers

At Intuit, I had my first experience of working on a software team and applying agile development methodologies. I experimented with CometD as a notification server for QuickBooks Sync Manager.

KPCB

Sierra Ventures

A-Rod

AI-based accounting and financial management solutions for individuals and businesses. Its products include Quick Books, Mint, Turbo Tax, and more. It provides solutions for accounting management, payroll processing, personal finance, tax preparation, and filing. It offers solutions including Lacerate tax, Pro Connect tax, and Pro Series for accountants to manage tax.

AI-based accounting and financial management solutions for individuals and businesses

Software Engineer at Forage | Ex-Netflix, Uber

Nicole Estorga