Brought in to accelerate hiring. Moved quickly to a permanent Director role, taking the lead of the Engineering department.
- More than doubled the hiring speed while maintaining quality, with an average time-to-hire of 1-month
- Scaled the Engineering team from 8 to 18 engineers, introducing a high-performance culture
- Migrated the platform from a complex Kubernetes deployment to a cloud PaaS solution, cutting platform costs by >60% and doubling the deployment rate.
- Led the delivery of a first customer-facing MVP, driving down scope and accelerating initial launch by a quarter.
- Led the migration of the data pipelines to Airflow / Dataflow, significantly improving pipeline reliability and data integrity