Sasha Ashpis

Experience

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  Accrue

  CTO

  Jun 2021 - Feb 2023

  A Seed stage VC backed startup, focusing on building a SaaS pricing optimization platform for enterprise sales teams to price their quotes using a data-driven approach.

  • Developed the company’s first MVP, which allowed the company to go to market, close initial customers, and raise additional funding
  • Joined as the Head of Engineering and Product and the first full-time employee, before being promoted to CTO in April 2022
  • Created budgets, developed career ladders, hired, onboarded, and led Engineering (7), Product (1), Design (1), and QA (1) teams; including full-time employees and contractors based in the US as well as globally
  • Led teams to self organize through team charters, daily stand ups, and weekly sprints
  • Developed and rolled out cross-departmental systems and processes for the entire organization
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  Lob

  Senior Engineering Manager

  Jan 2020 - Apr 2021

  Lob is a direct mail automation platform

  • Helped lead a YC backed company through a Series B hyper growth phase and Series C funding
  • Grew my organization to a size of 22, where I was the hiring manager for 15
  • Managed 4 managers and built out 5 teams: Core Services, Print and Mail API, Billing, Security, and IT
  • Designed and led the creation of several services that generated $1M+ in ARR upsells
  • Revamped the interview process, pipeline, and training, including coaching in-house tech recruiters
  • Collaborated with leadership to more than double the engineering team to 60+
  • Directed the successful completion of the company’s first SOC II Type 2 audit, with 0 exceptions
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  Augment CXM

  Director of Engineering

  Mar 2018 - Jan 2020

  An AI sidekick for customer service agents, with the mission to be agent assist and not agent replace.

  • As Head of Engineering, I hired and led an onsite and remote team of Engineers (8), QA (2), and DevOps (1)
  • Enabled growth from $0 to $1M ARR, by building AI copilot apps for human customer support chat agents
  • Fostered close partnerships with Product, Data Science, Customer Success, and Sales Enablement
  • Formulated and implemented the company’s first Engineering Team Charter and agile processes
  • Spearheaded the transition to containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes) for all our microservices (12), which allowed us to scale and set up a dev, staging, demo, and prod environments
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  Salesforce

  Lead Member of Technical Staff

  Jun 2013 - Oct 2017

  Its Salesforce.

  • Joined as part of an acquisition to build and Dreamforce launch the paid Analytics Platform (named Wave at the time)

• EdgeSpring (Acquired by Salesforce)

  Senior Software Engineer

  Mar 2012 - Jun 2013

  An analytics platform for large data sets with an intuitive UX so technical and non-technical users can do data explorations and analysis. The platform also could create visualizations and ETL pipelines.

  • Led the middleware team to build out v1 of the company CMS system
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  MyVest

  Senior Software Engineer

  Jun 2007 - Mar 2012

  A wealth management platform for RIAs (Registered Investment Advisors) and large institutions.

  • Led 1 of 3 engineers teams and the DevOps team
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  UC Berkeley

  Computer Science graudate

  Jan 2003 - May 2007

  • Earned by Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science