Julian Tai
Senior Product Manager at Backblaze
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Senior Product Manager
2022 - Current
Backblaze is an online storage company that offers personal and business backup as well as B2 cloud storage.
Raised $5,300,001.00 from TMT Investments.
Senior Product Manager
2019 - 2022
Responsible for implementing strategic acquisition of new customers. Work with customers and technology partners to obtain desired business outcomes using Redfast's flexible technology. Creating a product roadmap through insights, research, and customers discussions.
Redfast helps to monitor, target, message and fulfill personalized customer experiences for subscription and engagement businesses.
Senior Software Engineer, Lead
2016 - 2019
Cloud application developer focused on increasing total team productivity and happiness through various activities including cultural initiatives, straightforward communication, testing, and documentation. Lead team of core contributors on a highly visible insurance product line that won enterprise deals generating a new revenue stream.
Kespry provides an aerial intelligence platform that transforms how organizations capture, analyze, and share insights about their business.
Raised $61,352,000.00 from Salesforce Ventures, DCM Ventures, H. Barton Asset Management, Cisco Investments, Shell Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, S28 Capital, G2 Venture Partners and ABB Ventures.
Software Engineer
2014 - 2015
Brought an aging photography website platform from web 2.0 to a modern stack. Built a distributed service leveraging AWS infrastructure allowing us to migrate from an on prem solution. Migrated customers to Stripe allowing the company to become PCI DSS compliant. Created a site builder as part of a new website builder allowing customers to leave an antiquated flash solution.
Software Engineer
2013 - 2014
First startup software role and early employee. Built out two client side devices Samsung TV and XBox One that helped win major customers. Contributor to backend services for customer administration platform and api components.
Freelance
2011 - 2012
Software consulting for customers using wordpress and magento ecommerce.
Co Founder
2009 - 2010
Education
Computer Science
2011 - 2012