Serial Tech Entrepreneur & Product Leader
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Entrepreneurial technology leader with 25+ years of experience building innovative digital products. Serial founder with multiple successful exits, including a $65M acquisition by Sony. Expert in launching and scaling user-friendly applications with exceptional user experiences. Blends hands-on technical expertise with visionary leadership in product development and team growth. Now focused on driving innovation in Web3, AI, and creative tech.
🎨 Portfolio: A behance showcase of some of the apps I’ve built
✏️ Blog: Writings on Medium
🖌️ Designs: Product design work on Figma
💻 Code: Open source projects on github
🔗 LinkedIn: Professional profile
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Founder & CEO | Karma Coin | Global Team | 2023–2024
Funded and launched an open-source cryptocurrency platform promoting gratitude and community-driven economics.
- Recruited and directed a global engineering team to deliver production-ready web and mobile apps
- Designed an intuitive UX to make cryptocurrency accessible for non-technical users
- Attracted a community of thousands of early adopters through organic growth and grassroots outreach
- Implemented social tipping and community reward mechanisms to drive user engagement
- Designed, implemented and launched Karmachain, an app-specific blockchain in Rust
Founder & Maintainer | Subnet | Global Team | 2022-2023
Created, funded and led development of a decentralized, open-source social media protocol.
- Designed network architecture and UX for the Subnet mobile app
- Authored full specifications to guide community-led implementation
- Pioneered a user-sovereign model for identity and content ownership in social platforms
- Built fully-functional p2p nodes in Rust
Co-founder & Chief Product Officer | Spacemesh | Global Team | 2017-2022
Led product development for an open-source blockchain platform using innovative proofs-of-space-time consensus.
- Directed development of core platform and applications with focus on energy efficiency
- Established product roadmap, feature prioritization, and UX vision
- Authored key developer documentation to catalyze open-source adoption
- Built and managed remote teams across multiple time zones for effective delivery
- Designed, led development and launched the project’s dashboard and explorer apps.
- Created developer tools and documentation to support ecosystem growth
- Created successful open source blockchain and web3 community technical workshops and events. WA on the blockchain 2019 and Web Assembly 💜 WEB3 2021
- Raised $18M in 2 funding rounds from prominent blockchain investors
Mobile Tech Consultant, New York, NY, 2016
Designed and built a mobile native advertising sdk for Yieldmo.
Co-founder & CTO | Gong, Inc. | New York, NY | 2014-2016
Founded AI-driven news aggregation platform to combat misinformation.
- Architected and built full-stack mobile platform across web, iOS, and Android
- Implemented machine learning algorithms for content categorization and verification
- Led technical team through product development, testing, and market launch
- Designed scalable infrastructure to support rapid content processing
Founder | Musicsoft Arts LLC | New York, NY | 2009-2014
Grew a mobile music application company to 25M installs and profitability within one year.
- Created 10 innovative music applications, including the first music mixing apps for iPhone and iPad
- Achieved top rankings in App Store music category globally and $1M+ ARR without external funding
- Pioneered mobile native advertising and freemium business models
- Developed branded applications for major artists and companies (Carl Cox, DJ Spooky, Vibe magazine)
- Conceptualized and built the world’s first music album released as a mobile app
VP, Technology | Sony | San Francisco, CA | 2006-2008
Led innovation initiatives bringing user-generated video content to Sony hardware devices.
- Built the first Internet video applications for PlayStation platforms, reaching millions of users
- Developed video sharing API used by PureDigital cameras (acquired by Cisco)
- Created intellectual property for consumer video sharing and geo-tagging
- Initiated early cloud-based personal media hosting service (pre-iCloud concept)
- Collaborated with global Sony teams to integrate internet capabilities into consumer electronics
Co-founder & CTO | Grouper Networks/Crackle | San Francisco, CA | 2004-2006
Co-founded video sharing platform acquired by Sony for $65M after one year of operation.
- Designed and built award-winning peer-to-peer media sharing application PC Magazine Editor’s Choice
- Developed large-scale user-generated video web application (now Crackle.com)
- Built and scaled engineering team to support explosive growth
- Architected backend systems and video players that could handle millions of users
- Designed and wrote a personal media sharing desktop app that attracted seed investment round
Initiated and implemented innovative growth hacking techniques that drove rapid user growth
- Led a successful acquisition tech due-dilligence process
Co-founder & CTO | Friskit, Inc. | San Francisco, CA | 2000-2004
Created pioneering social music discovery platform named by Newsweek as one of the top 10 technologies that will change your life.
- Built first internet personalized radio application using web technologies
- Developed collaborative filtering-based music recommendation system
- Created streaming audio internet search engine using C++
- Designed innovative user interface for music discovery and sharing
- Hired and led music editorial team
- Raised $1M seed round from prominent Silicon Valley investors
Software Developer | Microsoft | Redmond, WA | 1997-2000
Contributed to core HTML5 concepts and multimedia technologies for Internet Explorer and Office.
- Enhanced Internet Explorer multimedia capabilities using Java, C++, and scripting
- Developed HTML-based multimedia editor for Office documents (Microsoft Vizact)
- Implemented animation, sound, and enhanced browser capabilities
SKILLS
- Leadership: 🚀 Product Strategy, 🧑🤝🧑 Team Building, 🌍 Remote Management
- Technical: 🧱 Blockchain, 📱 Full-Stack, ☁️ Cloud, Mobile and web Apps
- Product: 🎨 UX Design, 🔍 User Research, 🔄 Rapid Prototyping
- Business: 📈 Growth Hacking, 💡 Startup Scaling
- Software: Rust, Dart, Flutter, Swift, Go, React
PASSION PROJECTS