Baylee F.

VPE at Hinge: scaled eng team to 70 and app to millions

I’ve been consulting and building tech products for 14 years. I was the VP of Engineering at Hinge and spent six years there, building the team and scaling the app from zero users to millions. Before that, I was a Technical Lead at Yeti (a tech consultancy) where I built two apps featured as Best New App on the App Store, and in the distant past I was a Senior Consultant at Booz & Company doing strategy consulting.

Problems I can help with


Strategy

  • Capabilities and trade-offs. Evaluating what i…
Baylee F.

Work

Experience

  • Hinge

    Hinge

    VP of Engineering

    Sep 2016 - Oct 2022

    The dating app designed to be deleted

    • Led mobile, backend, platform, and QA for all product development (Growth, Monetization, Core Experience, Recommendations, Bad Actors, Internal Tools)
    • Led company-wide reorg from horizontal/functional alignment to vertical, cross-functional teams
    • Increased deployment velocity 5x
  • Yeti

    Yeti

    Technical Lead

    Sep 2013 - Jun 2016

    App development consultancy

    • Led backend development for two apps featured on App Store as "Best New App" (Gotta Go and Tape)
  • Booz & Co. (now Strategy& at PWC)

    Senior Consultant

    Oct 2010 - Apr 2013

    Management and strategy consulting

    • Financial modeling, market research, C-level presentations

Similar Members

  • Alex P. profile image
    Alex P.
    Fractional CTO
    1. Epik Foods
    2. Partoo
    3. Centre
    Fractional CTO | $65M Series C Exit | Systems Architect & Operational Scale
    Hire Alex P.
  • Alok V. profile image
    Alok V.
    Fractional CTO
    1. Amazon
    2. Cisco
    3. Ring
    Innovative Problem Solver and Strategic Thinker
    Hire Alok V.
  • Ben C. profile image
    Ben C.
    Fractional CTO
    1. Uber
    2. Ben.lc
    3. Schematic Labs
    Building Remote Teams for Mobile and Web
    Hire Ben C.