Engineering People

Chris McCooey is VP of Engineering for B2C at Purch. He oversees engineering teams delivering web and mobile experiences to Purch’s brands. Purch helps people buy better. Chris’ mission is to build technology that honors the intent of Purch’s users. With over 20 years leading software teams, Chris is passionate about developing engineers, nurturing innovators and creating experiences that delight users. Previously, Chris worked at Cnet and CBS Interactive running search, API and platform teams.   Learn how to scale your engineering team with TalentPath by Treehouse Twitter Instagram LinkedIn Facebook  

Robert Stewart is the CTO and Chief Architect at Castlight Health and has been with Castlight since 2011. He led the engineering teams that built Castlight Action, a fully-automated platform for benefits professionals to leverage data and machine learning algorithms to connect employees to the right benefits and programs. Robert previously held senior development and management positions at Voxify, Avaya, and Lucent Bell Labs, and has a Bachelor's Degree in Physics and Philosophy from Rice University.   LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zakstengel/   Learn how to scale your engineering team with TalentPath by Treehouse Twitter Instagram LinkedIn Facebook

Don Thompson is VP of Software Development at Nextech Systems, a leading specialty specific Practice Management and Electronic Medical Records software company.  He has worked his entire career at Nextech, starting at a coop position 18 years ago as the company grew from 10 employees to its current size of over 250.  Don received his Bachelor's degree from the University of Dayton in Computer Science. Don currently lives in Tampa, FL. Most of his free time is spent staying active, he can often be found in a rock climbing or ninja warrior gym.   LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/don-thompson-99339ab5/   Learn how to scale your engineering team with TalentPath by Treehouse Twitter Instagram LinkedIn Facebook

Ben Adida is VP Engineering at Clever, the leading K-12 education platform. His passion is using technology to empower individuals and level the playing field. Ben has extensive experience in identity, payments, voting technology, health IT, security & privacy, and Web architecture. He has developed free software for 20 years and Web software for close to 25 years. He is a Board Member at the non-profit Creative Commons. Previously, Ben was Director of Engineering at Square, Director of Engineering at Mozilla, Research Faculty at Harvard Medical School / Children's Hospital Boston, and research fellow with the Center for Research on Computation and Society at Harvard. Ben co-founded three bootstrapped startups: ArsDigita (1998), OpenForce (2000), and Webdash (2005). He received his PhD from MIT's Cryptography and Information Security group. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benadida/   Learn how to scale your engineering team with TalentPath by Treehouse Twitter Instagram LinkedIn Facebook

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Nidhi Gupta is Senior Vice President of Technology at Hired, a marketplace that matches tech talent with the world’s most innovative companies. Nidhi leads the company’s global engineering, developer operations and product teams. Nidhi is a skilled engineer and product executive who is passionate about building and growing thriving product and engineering organizations that deliver world-class products at scale. Prior to Hired, Nidhi was Senior Vice President of Product and Engineering at Tophatter and Upwork. Previously, she was instrumental in leading mobiTV and Ning through hyper-growth and expansion.   LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nidhihgupta/   Learn how to scale your engineering team with TalentPath by Treehouse Twitter Instagram LinkedIn Facebook

Andy is responsible for leading the technology development and innovation efforts for Healthline. Andy bring over 20 years of experience with technical operations, software engineering, and product development for companies across a variety of industries. Prior to joining the Healthline, Andy led engineering for several divisions/acquisitions for the Monster.com team. He holds an M.S. in Computer Science from Georgia Tech and a B.S. in Math from UNC - Chapel Hill. His hobbies include volleyball, biking, and enjoying the Marin outdoors with his two boys, Drew and James! LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andymarkham/   Learn how to scale your engineering team with TalentPath by Treehouse Twitter Instagram LinkedIn Facebook

Christian McCarrick is the VP of Engineering for Auth0 where he manages a globally distributed team. He is dedicated to improving the craft of software engineering leadership. He volunteers his time to mentor through the Everwise and Plato networks and teaches engineering workshops for new engineering managers. He also hosts a popular podcast called SimpleLeadership where he interviews top technology leaders in order to help other managers grow and be successful.   LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christianmccarrick Twitter: https://twitter.com/cmccarrick   Learn how to scale your engineering team with TalentPath by Treehouse Twitter Instagram LinkedIn Facebook  

Leonid Movsesyan is Vice President of Engineering at Cadre. Before joining Cadre, he was a Senior Engineering Manager at Dropbox where he led teams responsible for reliability, efficiency and performance of their services. Leonid has also worked at Yelp as a Senior Reliability Engineer, and at Yandex as Co-Head of Infrastructure, managing teams responsible for common infrastructure components and tools. He received his Master’s in Computer Science from Moscow State Industrial University. LinkedInCadre Learn how to scale your engineering team with TalentPath by Treehouse Twitter Instagram LinkedIn Facebook  

Kevin Skibbe is the VP of Engineering at BetterCloud where he is responsible for the day to day duties of the Development, Test Engineering, and Architecture teams. Kevin's passion is to continually bridge the gap between technology, business, customer, and partner teams.   Before joining BetterCloud, Kevin held several positions as a software engineer and engineering leader. Kevin is a native Georgian and holds both an MS and BS in Computer Science from Columbus State University.    Kevin on LinkedIn  BetterCloud   Learn how to scale your engineering team with TalentPath by Treehouse Twitter Instagram LinkedIn Facebook  

Dr. Anurag Maunder is an SVP of Engineering at Kindred AI, an artificial intelligence company that solves human problems with autonomous robots. He started his career with prestigious AT&T Bell Labs. He was the Founder, CTO of Kazeon Systems that was acquired by EMC and the Founder CEO of dLoop that was acquired by Box. In last few years, he established the Advanced Development lab for EMC to focus on Machine learning for automating storage configurations and also created Johnson Controls Innovation Garage that introduced several new AI products in industrial IOT. His current areas of interest are AI, Robotics, Smart Buildings and IoT Security using Blockchains. He believes that AI and Robotics together will fundamentally transform the quality of life and disrupt every single industry. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amaunder/

As head of engineering, Prashant leads Asana’s growing engineering organization towards high velocity, sustainability, and quality. Before joining Asana, Prashant started and led the Bay Area team building Amazon DynamoDB, a fully managed NoSQL database service. He also led engineering for mobile advertising start-up Vdopia and worked on storage systems at IBM Research. Prashant earned an M.S. in Computer Science from UIUC, and a BTech(Hons) in Computer Science from BITS, Pilani. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ppandey/

Zak Stengel is the SVP of Engineering at The Trade Desk, which is a global technology company that provides a platform for advertisers to reach target audiences across any device in real time. Since 2013, Zak has led The Trade Desk’s Engineering team through massive growth, from a single team of 8 people to a global organization of nearly 200 across 12 offices throughout North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific. In this time, the team has driven a technological expansion to a scaled platform that now services more queries than searches by Google, tweets by Twitter, and snaps by Snapchat – combined.   Zak is most proud of the fact that this has all been achieved while maintaining an agile culture based on trust, connection, and empathy, where every team member works closely across geographic and functional lines to ship product to our clients, every single week. Depending on how you count, Zak has between 15 and 30 years of experience as a professional software developer and technology leader.  He holds a Bache

Eric Richard is the SVP of Engineering at HubSpot, where he oversees HubSpot’s global product development teams. Eric brings more than two decades of experience in the tech industry as a founder, CTO, engineering, and business leader. Eric's focus has been on managing and mentoring impactful software development, support, IT, security and operations teams while creating and implementing information security programs, supporting agile culture, and creating empowering environments for engineering talent. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericrrichard/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ericrrichard

Mike Herrick is the SVP of Product & Engineering at Urban Airship and is responsible for developing, operating, supporting, and sustaining UrbanAirship’s products. He joined the company in 2010.   Prior to Urban Airship, Mike was the Vice President of Products for Collaborative Software Initiative. In that role, he was responsible for product management, product development, technical support, and hosted operations. Prior to Collaborative Software Initiative, Mike built a broad background in the software business with management and individual contributor roles at Liberty Mutual, C-bridge/eXcelon (now Progress Software), Mentor Graphics, and Andersen Consulting (now Accenture).   Mike holds a BS in Management Information Systems from the University of Dayton.   LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikeherrick/

Roger Gonzalez is the SVP of Product and Engineering for CreativeLive, where he leveraged his experience in building high-performing teams to transform development of the CreativeLive student experience. His eclectic career spans 27 years and includes everything from web development to AI for underwater robots. Roger has managed orgs with hundreds of developers spread across four continents, but found his passion in managing the chaos at smaller, fast-moving startups like CreativeLive. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rgonzalez/

Dan Neri is Director of UI Engineering at accesso, where he leads the application development of the Passport ticketing product suite. He is an engineering leader who is passionate about building highly productive teams and growing leaders who are both product driven and people focused. At accesso, he has helped scale their eCommerce platform to $1.5b across 20 countries, while cultivating an innovative engineering culture. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielaneri/

Tammy Wang is the VP Data Science at Riviera Partners, where she is building AI solutions to disrupt the traditional recruiting model by matching elite tech executives with industry-leading innovators like Dropbox, Hulu, Doordash, Docker, & Airbnb. With a PhD in computer science, she has 17+ years of experience building & managing data teams that have driven growth at companies such as Zillow & Microsoft. She recently published a research paper in Communications of the ACM & is the author of 14 patents. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tammy-wang-6206061/

Peter Troost is responsible for Acquia’s Engineering organization, including platform as a service and software as a service products. Prior to joining Acquia, Peter has been in product leadership roles for 25 years in organizations ranging from startups to Fortune 500 companies including The Travelers, Gillette, and Oracle. Most recently Peter served as the CTO for Radius Worldwide responsible for all software as a service products. Peter has an MBA from MIT Sloan and a Bachelor of Science degree in Business and Computer Science from Bucknell University.   LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-troost-1298a01/

Amy Wiley, Vice President of Engineering Services, Webroot As Vice President of Engineering Services, Amy is part of a global team that ranges from DevOps engineers, escalation engineers, quality assurance (QA) team members, and support engineers to customer retention agents, UX/UI designers, advanced malware removal analysts and threat research experts. In her role, Amy serves as the voice of the customer, working with development, QA, product management and sales and marketing to ensure customer or product problems are resolved and, ultimately, keeping customers cyber safe. She leads a team that works around the clock, every single day, to monitor systems, engage with customers, and ensure that Webroot is providing the best experience and protection in the industry. Amy has more than 17 years of experience working for software development companies in different capacities. Prior to her nearly 16-year tenure at Webroot, she worked as a technical account manager and a staff software engineer at Rally Software