Gene Chuang

Technical Sales Director

2023 - Current

Chief Slacker

2017

CTO Slackers is an engineering leadership network of over 1K CTOs, VPoEs and technical founders all over the world. We talk tech, hiring, organization/management, and occasionally over whiskey.

Senior Vice President of Engineering

2022 - 2023

Developing the next generation FloSports platform across web, mobile and TV app devices for our million (and growing) active subscriber base of under-served live sports enthusiasts. I ran a team of 180 engineers laying the groundworks for One Flo Platform.

Chief Technology Officer

2019 - 2021

P.volve sits at the intersection of fitness, physical therapy and women’s health, raising the bar for what women can achieve through their workout method. Our goal is not to just sculpt our members but support and restore their bodies so they can move better, feel better, live better—for life. I hired 30 engineers all virtual during the Pandemic and launched a brand new platform in 8 months. Migrated 15K users over to new platform and grew out to 25K users.

SVP of Technology

2016 - 2019

Openfit is a subsidiary of Beachbody. I managed a team of 50 engineers to build Openfit from soup to nuts in 7 months, launched and grew to 60K subs in 3 months and 150K subs in a year. Technologies used: React Native iOS and Android apps, React web, HTML5 and native iOS/Android video players, Roku App BrightScript, 100% AWS, 100% Serverless Lambda APIs in Python and Go, Shopify, Recurly, Zendesk, WPEngine, Gatsby.js, SalesForce Marketing Cloud/ExactTarget, Verizon VDMS, Panthera, Conviva, Snowflake, Looker, Tealium and Datadog. Openfit is about to get Tough! #toughmudder https://ktla.com/2019/03/04/get-into-tough-mudder-shape-with-tough-mudder-t-minus-30-hunter-mcintyre/

CTO

2012 - 2016

$100M business, we own 5M+ domain names, specialize in travel, consumer finance and comparison shopping verticals. We process and monetize 250M Uniques a month in traffic. 30% of this is mobile and tablet. We use Ruby on Rails, Cucumber, MySQL, Redis, Neo4J, Hadoop, iOS, Responsive Web, Bootstrap, Scrum, Jira, Netezza. I'm looking for Ruby/RoR dev, iOS dev, Java, Frontend SEM in DTLA or NYC offices. Our Culture: Work Hard, Play Harder - https://www.facebook.com/Oversee.net Our UCLA IPAM Data Scientist Interns presented "Mapping Domain Names to Categories" https://www.slideshare.net/thelakerfan/rips-2013-final Shopwiki app is live and works great on iPhone5! Super fast scan, search and compare compared to other barcode scanner apps, you can 'showroom' with ease and confidence! Check it out: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/shopwiki/id561791509?mt=8

Executive Director of Engineering

2009 - 2012

Built the original YP Mobile team in 2009 right when the App Store just launched. Hired a team of uber-talented and highly productive mobile application engineers (11) and QA (5). In the short span of 9 months, the team had 15+ launches: YPMobile on iPhone, Android (G1 and to-be-released Motorola and HTC devices), Palm Pre and Pixi, Blackberry Storm and Bold/Curve, J2ME Feature phone, mobile website m.yp.com and Tap4Service on iPhone. Responsible for Social Engineering team, putting social capabilities in yp.com, ypmobile, and buzz.com. Well versed in Facebook Connect, Open Graph API, Twitter API, OAuth 2 service and client, Foursquare/Gowalla/Next-LBS, Social Data mining and Social Search. Was responsible for all things Data: MDM, ETL, Grid, Hadoop, Oracle 10G RAC, Postgres, Feeds, Extraction, Crawling, Datamining, Data Quality and Analysis. Participated in M&A activites of numerous mobile startups. Lead tech due diligence team in the unfortunate disastrous acquisition of plusmo.com. Speaker at Location Business Summit 2010 http://www.thewherebusiness.com/locationbusinesssummitusa/agenda.shtml Review of YPMobile for Palm Pre http://www.precentral.net/review-ypmobile 2010 ATTi Foosball Pairs Double Elimination Bracket Champions (partner Dom Cheung)

Director of Software Engineering

2001 - 2009

I was originally part of Goto.com (pioneer in sponsored search, not that other G company), then Overture, and finally Yahoo! Search Marketing. I have grown with the technology from a $500M ('01 rev) 'novel idea' to a $4B ('08 rev) advertising platform. In 2006 I led five teams of 40 software engineers to rebuild our application stack for Panama, a project consisting of 600 engineers, 10K servers and 3M lines of code. Alas, this was also about the same time I stopped playing foosball... Since 2007 I have also been involved in building Yahoo! Ad Exchange, apt.yahoo.com. Aside from expanding existing dev teams in three US offices, I have also been instrumental in the training and collaboration of teams in Y! Bangalore to increase overall engineering capacity. Systems I've developed or managed at GoTo.com/Overture/Yahoo: DTC, DTC-XML, OLS, Bid Agent, Keyword Suggestion Tool, Platform Services, LCCM and King Kong Data Distro, EPS, Keyword Research Service, Panama Editorial Systems and Crawler, Paid Inclusion SMC, DTS, Apt Demand Quality Management/Supply Quality Management, YSM Desktop

Sr Software Engineer

1998 - 2001

I was one of 5 core engineers that built the J2EE server side (on Weblogic 5.1) of the Kiko Lesson Creator - a pre-AJAX Javascript-enriched web-based WYSIWYG site publishing tool (think Geocities, but 10x cooler and with an education-bent).

Research Associate

1996 - 1997

Researcher in a NIH-funded lab exploring HIV Ribozyme Gene Therapy. Split my time between doing research in the Biohazard Level 3 lab wearing a bunny suit, and writing VB-Excel spreadsheets to facilitate data analysis in a computer lab. (sans bunny suit). John Zaia lab, where I did my research, had recent possible breakthru in 2010: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6qSisZNAX0 http://www.latimes.com/health/la-sci-hiv-therapy-20100822,0,1109377.story