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Enterprise Software Experience
Building software that is eating the world of Shipping and Data Security
2013-2017:
Shipping and Packing API that gives your business access to 100s of carriers with the best rates
Summary
As the first engineer hired, I got to experience the joy and tribulations of building a start-up from the ground up to a team of 15+ engineers and $1 million in gross revenue/mth. Built across the stack, from building data models and APIs to architecting the front-end. Also led/hosted the Santa Barbara AngularJS Meetup group.
Role
- Founding Engineer
- Full-Stack Engineer (RoR, JS)
- First Hire (wore many hats)
- Technical Lead
- Technical Recruiter
- Seed Investor
Projects include (but not limited to):
Packing algorithm (ruby)
ShipHawk REST API (rails)
Rating (rails)
Rating UI (angular)
Carrier Integration (ruby)
Customer branded tracking page (react/redux)
Quoting/booking UI
Rules management UI
Thermal label printing integration
Multi-tenancy
Internal CMS
2017-2022:
Cloud Data Management & Security for the Enterprise
Summary
Joining Rubrik at Series C as employee 234, I helped scale our full-stack teams and transform our product from an on-premise backup solution to a full-fledged cloud data management platform. By the time I left, I was managing 15 engineers across 3 teams and my teams had generated over $4 million in SaaS revenue.
Role
- UI Tech Lead (M365, VMWare)
- Senior Software Engineer
- API Standards Committee member
- Full-Stack Engineering Manager
- Senior Engineering Manager (Core Product & Frameworks)
Projects include (but not limited to):
Infinite scrolling table
M365 Data Protection & Ransomware Detection (UI)
GraphQL architecture
Migration from Grunt to Webpack
Cypress testing set up
Global object search
Global file search
MSSQL data protection
VMWare data protection
Ransomware Detection (UI)
Cloud strategy/roadmap for Rubrik Security Cloud
Product Analytics (Amplitude / Mixpanel) set up
EULA management
User onboarding flows
In-product announcements
UI architecture & Standards
UI Bootcamp
API standards committee
Hiring
Try & Buy
AppFlows Automated DR Orchestration (UI)
Rubrik UI/UX Demo
Other enterprise companies I've worked for (2008-2013)
Enterprise Grade Software is Comprenhensive
In a world where security and access control is table stakes...Put your trust in someone who has experience building software thatWorks for everybody from SMBs to the Fortune 500
Here are a list of some feature sets that I have experience building in my career:
Custom Dashboards
Give users the information they need all in one place
Multi-Tenancy
Support resellers or enterprises with complex business units
Super Admin
Empower your Customer Success team so they can manage, impersonate, or disable your users
White Label & Custom Branding
Enable your users to customize the look and feel of your platform
World-class APIs with Documentation
Great Enterprise Software needs world-class APIs
Billing & Subscription
In-product billing, invoicing, and subscription management
"If you want success team up with Sol. He's a great recruiter, technologist, leader, and an all-around rock-star type of person."
Aaron Freeman
CTO, Founder at Upwell
"Sol knows how to build a team that executes successfully. I happily recommend Sol to any organization looking for a leader who fosters inclusion, brings out the best in their employees, and helps them achieve great success."
Vince Messenger
Engineering Manager at Rubrik
"Sol is an excellent manager and coworker and he's one of the most dedicated coworker I have worked with. He has made me improve in many technical areas"
Richard Hong
Software Engineer at Meta, AI Tools
"Sol was a great leader, mentor, and co-worker. He always did what was necessary to get the job done without hesitation. Not only was he a technical leader, but also a cultural one."
Jonathan Kassan
Director of Product at Hearth
"He brought a level of enthusiasm and creativity that rose beyond expectation. He consistently delivered with limited supervision and oversight and demonstrated the ability to adapt to changing goals"
Dave Hawley
Fractional CMO for B2B SaaS Companies
Web3 - Delivering Luxury into the World of Digital Goods
Participating in crypto since 2014
Hackathons
Participated in Money 20/20 Bitcoin-centric hackathons in 2014 and 2015
Open Source Contributor
Paid Contributor to Ubeswap - a decentralized exchange on the Celo Blockchain
NFT Holder
NBA Top Shot, Cool Cats, 10KTF, and other collections
DeFi Summer
Participated in Yield Farming, Liquidity Pools, and Staking
Assets across chains
Assets Across Ethereum, Celo, Polygon, Avalanche, Solana
Led Engineering Teams
Managed full-stack (frontend, smart contract, backend)
Director of Engineering at Yuga Labs (2022-2023)
Led teams behind 10KTF, Legends of the Mara, Gucci Kodapendant, Puma slipstreams
Gucci KodaPendant Sale
$5.7 Million in 24 hours selling Gucci pendant metadata
The KodaPendant, an Otherside Relic by Gucci, is a digital and physical piece that represents Gucci’s entry into Otherside. Sold over 3100 KodaPendants in 24 hours at a price of 450 APE coin (~$1,900 USD). We built https://kodapendant.otherside.xyz, a full e-commerce web app with ETH wallet connection, from scratch in less than 4 weeks.
Legends of the Mara
Otherside: Legends of the Mara, aka LOTM, is a standalone experience powered by ApeCoin
LOTM is a game that enlists the Otherside Koda collection and introduces a brand new collection called Mara, which can evolve into Kodamara. 10 Month Project that involved over 13 smart contracts, 8+ engineers, game economy, AWS infrastructure, monitoring, IPFS, and more. Generated at one point about $200,000 in daily revenue from in-game purchases.
Puma Slipstream
Grailed PUMA Slipstreams. Over $2 Million in Sales
Move swiftly. Grailed PUMA Slipstream Physicals are 1:1 sneakers with the power to transport. An embedded NFC chip links these shoes to their matching digital counterpart and registers physical ownership on the blockchain. First major project using our in-house team built On Demand Rendering Pipeline using AWS Lambdas.