Philippe Sekine

About Philippe Sekine

Leading Shared Rides engineering at Uber. Leading a team of 30 engineers in Seattle, SF and NYC of some of the smartest and highest performing technologists I\'ve worked with in my career. Right now I\'m primarily working on: 1. Leading Uber Share, the rebranded uber pool. Growing the business from 2.5B in revenue, and finding the best tradeoffs in product experience to achieve the lowest prices for customers, and getting more cars off the road to help climate impacts, traffic, city infrastructure and savings for riders. A 0-1 bet building a 100 million revenue next generation shuttle platform to make transportation more accessible, affordable and safe. This is a collection of product experiences for direct to consumer commute transit for city, airports and events and also B2B employee transit solutions.

Experience

1. Senior Software Engineering Manager

   Uber

   Jan 2023 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   2024-PresentLeading Shared Rides engineering for Uber, a 30+ engineering group. Right now I\'m primarily working on 1. Leading Uber Share, the rebranded uber pool. Growing the business to 2.5B in revenue, and finding the best tradeoffs in product experience to achieve the lowest prices for customers, and get more cars off the road to help climate impacts, traffic, city infrastructure and users\' wallets. A 0-1 bet building a 100 million revenue next generation bus platform to make transportation more accessible, affordable and safe. This is a product which spans a direct to consumer city, airports and event transit and B2B employee transit.20••••24Leading an organization of engineers across Seattle and Toronto sites to expand Uber\'s marketplace capabilities.• Created and now scaling a 0-1 product to reimagine how bus service could work in an app based world.• Leading the Advanced Matching Platform, to support scheduling and planning use cases across mobility and delivery• Building a revamped Group Rides experience to support self organized car sharing, providing low cost alternatives for mobility. • Building Platforms to support Simulations and Observability across all of Uber\'s marketplaces.0

Education

• University of Washington

  Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

  2004 — 2008

Skills

• Java
• Enterprise Software
• Software Engineering
• Javascript
• Distributed Systems
• C++
• .net
• Software Development
• Scrum
• Android
• Databases
• Integration
• Software Design
• Testing