Helping CXOs level up their engineering & product functions and ultimately drive business growth. I am a seasoned leader, Ex SVP at Square, ex-CTO, current Fractional CTO, Startup Advisor, and Board member.
I coach, diagnose, bridge gaps, and drive positive change using my years of experience across a broad and deep range of industries (including B2B SaaS, B2C) company stages/sizes, and challenges.
As the former Head of ML Platforms at Square and a current fractional advisor to three AI startups, I am uniquely positioned to provide expert guidance on ML/AI.
I also have deep venture connections and help startups with fundraising. Plus, with my strong network of public board directors, I am well-positioned to make meaningful introductions to potential customers.
Advisor to the CTO, CEO and Data Science teams for building an AI-based risk management B2B SaaS application.
Key Accomplishments:
Deeply embedded with the data science teams, enabling them wherever needed, including calibrating model performance, and identifying opportunities for improving ML.
Created an AI Explainability strategy balancing the delicate needs of fintech regulations, explaining the scores to gain customer's trust, highlighting the value of the product and not protecting the IP
Creating a product strategy for the AI-based product with a holistic approach incorporating the voice of the customer, competitive differentiation and technology constraints.
Advise the CEO and COO on team capabilities and limitations, helping them build the right team, the right org structure as well as process enhancements for accelerating product-market-fit
Help with capital raise leveraging my deep network of VCs in Silicon Valley.
Making key business introductions which led to 2 very large enterprise customers, significantly accelerating the company's revenue.
As Head of Block's Developer Platforms, my team's work resulted in a $400M+ impact through fraud prevention, risk assessment, and lending applications.
While leading the ML Platforms, in the lending space, we increased TAM by $150M by adding new data sources, with the right feature engineering, and model tuning. I spearheaded many projects for MLOps/AIOps, ensuring that accelerated the ML development for the company.
While leading Square's API Product (the equivalent of Stripe), I led the product strategy for improving developer experience (DX). On the engineering side key projects for API security, stability and scalability as well as organizational influence resulted in meaningful growth
In the developer productivity realm, we focused heavily on build speed improvement, improving IDE speed and code optimizations.
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