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…

Jason Margolin

Work

  • Hirely Health

    Hirely Health

    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.

    https://gethirely.com/

Experience

  • Facebook

    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

    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

    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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