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{
"basics": {
"email": "furchin@gmail.com",
"name": "Michal Bryc",
"label": "Software engineering leadership",
"phone": "(206) 778-0511",
"summary": "Product-focused principal software engineer / technical lead / architect deeply rooted in distributed back-end services with experience throughout the stack.\n\nI believe in data-driven decision making, that transparency yields team buy-in on tradeoffs, and in both creating new relationships and fostering existing relationships. I enjoy breaking down silos and solving problems so everyone comes out ahead.",
"location": {
"address": "2912 13th Ave S",
"postalCode": "98144",
"city": "Seattle",
"region": "WA",
"countryCode": "USA"
}
},
"work": [
{
"company": "Twitter, Inc.",
"position": "Staff Software Engineer",
"website": "https://twitter.com",
"startDate": "2019-06",
"summary": "Tech lead overseeing website performance ads product",
"highlights": [
"Responsible for online conversion tracking measurement (https://business.twitter.com/en/help/campaign-measurement-and-analytics/conversion-tracking-for-websites.html)",
"Re-architected Twitter Pixel from legacy JavaScript to modern Babel-transpiled TypeScript, served and executed over 30,000 times per second",
"Ensured correctness of Twitter Pixel Helper (https://business.twitter.com/en/help/campaign-measurement-and-analytics/pixel-helper.html)",
"Co-authored technical design for Conversion API (https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-ads-api/measurement/web-conversions/conversion-api)",
"Identified and solved click-to-land measurement issues arising from the 1,000-partition Kafka Streams processing of up to 600,000 inbound postbacks per second",
"Led Site Visit Optimization product (https://business.twitter.com/en/blog/performance-advertising-on-twitter.html)",
"Provided definitive customer- and sales-facing proof points on campaign and ad-group performance over time",
"Ensured compliance with CCPA, GDPR, and ATT requirements",
"Created technical roadmap for product, collecting input and building consensus from ~60 individuals across Data Science, Machine Learning, Product, Product Sales Support, Product Marketing Management, Content Management, Platform engineering, and Formats engineering teams",
"Technical input and oversight across the org consisting of 8 Engineering Managers, 3 Data Scientists, 24 IC Engineers, 7 Product Managers, 3 Technical Program Managers, and 13 others across finance, support, marketing, research, UX, content, and product counsel.",
"Oversaw re-architecture of ads serving platform away from a monolith towards individual services",
"Responsible for design, operations, and maintenance of 75,000 core system bidding 400,000 ad requests per sec (peak load)"
]
},
{
"company": "Pager Team LLC",
"position": "Founder & CEO",
"website": "https://pagerteam.com",
"startDate": "2019-02",
"endDate": "2022-01",
"summary": "Solo founder of a small startup focused on on-call rotation management",
"highlights": [
"Developed business plan and financial models",
"Launched SaaS product with integrated payments in under a month",
"Grew traffic via paid and organic marketing channels by over 500% month-over-month",
"Tuned landing page to increase free trial conversion rate 10x"
]
},
{
"company": "Built For Me Inc.",
"position": "Chief Technology Officer",
"website": "https://www.builtforme.tech",
"endDate": "2019-01",
"startDate": "2017-06",
"summary": "Co-founder and CTO at a 5 person company bootstrapped with software consulting",
"highlights": [
"Architecture and implementation for 8 internal (product) and 3 external (software consulting) backend systems using Node, Terraform, AWS, DynamoDB, RDS Postgres",
"Released numerous open source initiatives at https://github.com/builtforme",
"Hired engineering team and created entire engineering job ladder including levels and comp (base, bonus, and stock) using Radford data",
"Scaled candidate communication and public relations via https://blog.builtforme.tech"
]
},
{
"company": "HBO",
"position": "Sr. Staff Architect",
"website": "https://www.hbo.com",
"startDate": "2014-01",
"endDate": "2017-06",
"summary": "Sole back-end services architect responsible for technology choices underpinning a suite of 64+ microservices powering HBO GO and HBO NOW",
"highlights": [
"Drove best practices across a team of ~50 engineers covering development guidelines, CI/CD pipeline, review standards, and testing practices",
"Scaled infrastructure to support 1,000,000 concurrent views with viewership climbing at a rate of 1,000 users per second",
"Implemented playback markers service to sync viewer's last viewed position in assets across devices and to enable viewers to identify content they have previously viewed",
"Wrote \"Continue Watching\" functionality to allow viewers to easily discover content they started viewing but did not finish",
"Implemented common metrics collection agent across more than 20 backend services to collect application and service data and collect in a centralized third-party metrics solution",
"Parnered with HBO CISO and TimeWarner auditors to ensure security and compliance of HBO applications"
]
},
{
"company": "Amazon.com",
"position": "Software Development Engineer",
"website": "https://www.amazon.com",
"startDate": "2012-11",
"summary": "Worked on a small team in Personalization using natural language processing to identify digital product mentions in HTML with greater than 95% precision and 50% recall",
"highlights": [
"Implemented machine learning algorithms to extract product metadata from content, including TF-IDF and CNN approaches",
"Designed entire new service from the ground up, acting as the tech lead for a small team",
"Created double-annotation process to generate labelled datasets for use in model generation"
],
"endDate": "2014-01"
},
{
"company": "IMDb.com",
"position": "Software Development Engineer",
"website": "https://www.imdb.com",
"startDate": "2010-06",
"summary": "Worked on the audience engagement team to support the team's charter of increased user interaction with the site",
"highlights": [
"Designed a list service and public-facing UX supporting over 5MM distinct watchlists",
"Integrated Amazon-powered title similarities onto the imdb.com site, replacing IMDb's homegrown solution and increasing clickthrough by 20% while reducing operational cost to the team",
"Added personalized recommendations to drive watchlist adds, responsible for 10% of all watchlist adds site-wide",
"Optimized widget display on imdb.com to reduce list page latency by 75%"
],
"endDate": "2012-11"
},
{
"company": "Amazon.com",
"position": "Software Development Engineer",
"website": "https://www.amazon.com",
"startDate": "2006-03",
"summary": "Optimized personalization algorithms to maximize revenue, units, gross sales, and profit",
"endDate": "2010-06"
},
{
"company": "Microsoft",
"position": "Software Development Engineer",
"website": "https://www.microsoft.com",
"startDate": "2003-03-01",
"summary": "Owned the Microsoft homepage, and backend services behind the product information center and Microsoft download center",
"endDate": "2006-02-01"
}
]
}
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