Brian L.
Engineering Leadership @Optimizely
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WORK HISTORY
Engineering Leadership @Optimizely
San Francisco, CA, US
Optimizely is the world’s leading (A/B) experimentation platform. Acq in Oct. 2020 by Insight Venture Partners. From 150->1500 employees and $10M->$400M ARR.Lead efforts to build and scale-up several mission-critical products across Optimizely\'s data and monetization engineering teams- vlarge (10B+ daily events) performant billing data pipeline on Snowflake+GCP+BigQuery, processing metrics and events from the world\'s largest websites (by traffic)- new metered-billing MAU metric (Monthly Active User) evaluating billions of events per month, per user, initially with Airflow and then DBT + Fivetran- Built service fabric platform group on MS Azure for orchestration of services, events, and applications- platform for internal/external user-facing metrics dashboards, which powers the user experiences across 7 separate product platforms built on Looker.Most recently: Working with AI efforts across teams and orgs in Optimizely and Google, building out products on top of both OpenAI and Google Vertex platforms for use internally and externally.
EDUCATION
University of Colorado Boulder
BS, Information Systems
University of Colorado Boulder College of Engineering & Applied Science
M.Sc, Telecommunications Engineering
SKILLS
ABOUT BRIAN L.
I enjoy building prototype to production. Four exits:@ Credible: CTO and founding team (IPO in 2017, then acq 2019 by Fox Corp,$400M+)@ Optimizely: Senior Staff Engineer (acq 2020 by Insight Venture Partners) 150->1500 employees,$10M->$400M ARR @ Sling (SlingTV/Slingbox): Lead Architect + Eng Manager (acq 2008 by Dish,$380M)@ Hoopla: co-founder (acq 2010 by PYDA)I am an LP (investor) in multiple healthcare, fintech, web3, defense, and real estate funds, and an active angel through my fund, Resolved Ventures.Four patents. Open source software contributor and early proponent of cloud-computing.
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