Michael Jin

Engineering, product, growth marketing

Summary

Experienced software engineer. Special interest in scaling products and engineering teams.

Skills

Python, AWS, React, Snowflake, DynamoDB, data pipelines (e.g. k8s, Argo, Spark, Redshift, Terraform, dbt), growth marketing pipelines (eg SFDC, Fivetran, Segment),

Education

2012 B.S., Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS), UC Berkeley

2012 Concentration in Engineering Leadership, Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology, UC Berkeley

Employment

Oct 2021 - present CTO, LoftyAI, Remote

• Built out early product and early eng org in fractionalized real estate space.
• Complex webapp in React/Nodejs with support for crypto payments supported by ML pipeline running on Airflow and Snowflake.
• Key contributor to product direction and roadmap, focusing on market needs and core use cases.

Apr 2020 - present Self-employed contractor, Pineapple Rock LLC, Seattle

• Variety of backend contracting work, including building and optimizing data pipelines for clients.

May 2016 - Apr 2020 Technical Leader, Second Measure (acq Bloomberg), San Mateo

• As early engineer, scaled and productionized ETL pipeline correcting and aggregating billions of credit card transactions daily.
• Implemented hiring processes and engineering best practices that are still in use today.
• Working directly with top tier investors, replatformed core investor (HFs/VCs) research product to React/Redux and Python API

Apr 2015 - May 2016 Growth Marketing, Mesosphere (now D2iQ), San Francisco

• Built centralized view of customer journey across multiple domains and product touchpoints. Built complete systems for collection, processing, and warehousing of customer data.
• Worked with executive team to prepare reports and analysis for board meetings and fundraising.

Mar 2014 - Apr 2015 Engineer, Mesosphere (now D2iQ), San Francisco

• Joined as early employee and developed first complete offering of repeatable cluster deployment product across AWS, GCE, Azure, and others.

May 2012 - Mar 2014 Startups, San Francisco

• Backend work for mobile apps in Python and Scala. Geolocation and mobile payments.

Hobbies

Skiing, running, biking, cars