Kurt Sahlin
- Role
- Sr Director of Engineering at Varsity Tutors, a Nerdy Company
- Location
- Seattle, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
Experience
Sr Director of Engineering
Varsity Tutors, a Nerdy Company
Aug 2019 — Present · Seattle, WA, US
Executive for various 7-15 person teams, delivering new products, new features, system wide platform improvements. Responsible for engineering, product operations, and quality. Key Accomplishments:* Released company’s first machine learning algorithm in 2018 (student to tutor matching). Leveraged multivariate approach to measure and optimize performance. Supported initial lead scoring ML algorithm implementation.* Developed new e-commerce checkout, sales quote, and sales collateral solution which improved conversion rates and reduced cost of sales * Constructed billing and revenue recognition solutions to support selling new subscription and classes products * Created Product Catalog UI and backend to enable user to easily search, discover, and purchase product offerings including product variations (leveraged Elasticsearch)* Delivered external and internal facing UIs and backends to support multiple greenfield Varsity Tutors for Schools product offerings on aggressive schedules by utilizing an MVP and phased approach to development.* Reinforced microservices architecture vision by supporting/directing teams to develop new features outside of the legacy monolith application and migrate simple services out of the monolith * Developed “Making Great Hiring Decisions in Engineering\" framework and led training sessions to improve quality and scalability of hiring decisions * Interviewed, hired, and integrated new engineers from South America and North America to scale our teams (500+ interviews)* Managed multiple teams in “remote first” and hybrid work environments Primary Technologies: Golang, Python, React, Ruby on Rails, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Braintree, Paypal, Checkr, Hellosign (Dropbox Sign), OpsGenie, New Relic, Papertrail, Amazon Web Services: EC2, Lambda, EKS, VPC, RDS, S3, Redshift, Kinesis, SQS, ElasticCache
Education
University of Washington
MBA
1996 — 1998
University of Washington
BS, Electrical Engineering
1989
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