Alex Andon

Product at Meta

Senior Product Manager, Fraud Analytics
2016 - 2019
Led product initiatives across business, engineering and data science teams on digital payment fraud. Drove development of machine learning algorithms to detect risky customer behavior, delivering highly accurate prediction for the world's largest company.

Product Manager
2015 - 2016
Simility was acquired by PayPal for $120M. I was the first PM at this startup building advanced fraud-fighting tools for the new kinds of fraud enabled as the world moves to a digital marketplace economy.

Founder & CEO
2008 - 2014
Jellyfish Art was incubated by Y Combinator and acquired in 2014. I founded this company by selling pet jellyfish aquariums, then expanded it into a Shopify-like e-commerce platform. - Built e-commerce platform for specialty businesses, e.g. international live animal shipments. - Crowd funded product launch in Kickstarter's top-10 biggest campaign. - Built out live animal breeding facility and manufacturing across several factories. - Authored 3 product patents, won multiple product awards, and was featured on top media outlets: NY Times (cover), NBC, Wired, NY Mag, ABC, etc.