Learn how a data science executive thinks about building scalable data systems at startups.
Jason Margolin
Tech Advisor | Fractional CTO | ex-Facebook
I help businesses navigate through their technology challenges as a tech advisor and part-time CTO. Available for hire, on-demand with no long term commitment.
Delivered highly-complex and scalable software in the tech, retail, news, finance and oil & gas industry.
Ways I can help:
* Product development (turning ideas into reality)
* Technical strategy, architecture & roadmap
* Hiring the right people (internal or outsourced)
* Modernizing existing technology or processes
* Scaling products for…
Work
Hirely Health
https://gethirely.com/Co-founder and CTO of Hirely Health, an innovative platform to revolutionize healthcare recruitment. Transformed product vision into reality by defining the product roadmap, securing investment and building a capable engineering team, driving 10k sign-ups in year one.
Experience
Facebook
Technical Program Manager
Aug 2022 - Jul 2023
Ensuring Meta's products were reliable and always running (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, AI).
- Defined and executed large programs of work to improve critical systems monitoring infrastructure for all of Meta’s systems (preventing ~$1bn revenue loss per year)
- Drove the technical strategy and roadmap for a team of 30+ engineers based on reliability, efficiency and customer needs
BP
Technical Lead
Apr 2019 - Aug 2022
Running BP's pay for fuel app (BPme) and scientific tools for subsurface oil & gas exploration.
- Lead 10 engineers and data scientists to scale JupyterLab globally across BP and champion the product to become a primary tool for scientific work
- Managed 4 software engineering teams across the globe to deliver BP’s pay at pump service in Europe with the BPme app (iOS & Android, ~£30m transactions per year)
VoucherCodes
Director of Engineering
Aug 2014 - Mar 2019
Managing teams of engineers and co-ordinating large projects on the world's busiest voucher website.
- Built and developed a strong engineering team for web and mobile (2 engineering managers and 10 engineers; native iOS and Android, backend and frontend, QA)
- Championed a culture of continuous engineering improvement by leveraging surveys, retrospectives and metrics to identify areas for growth
- Led a rewrite project for both iOS and Android apps to simplify the product for users and improve the underlying architecture
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