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Loren Siebert

VP of Engineering at Paradigm

Mill Valley, California

Overview

Work Experience

  • VP of Engineering

    2024 - Current

  • Head of Engineering

    2023

  • Senior Software Engineer

    2022

  • Venture Partner

    2015 - 2022

    Technical advisor helping entrepreneurs at outstanding software companies execute private stock transactions.

  • Data Engineer

    2020 - 2022

    Created comprehensive Python/SQL ETL system to ingest hundreds of versioned data shapes from dozens of Kafka publishers into seven Snowflake data warehouses. Scaled to billions of events daily.

  • Software Engineer

    2018 - 2020

    Built out several multi-TB Elasticsearch clusters to support Arabic/English/Chinese-language ML products for data science team. Wrote all initial code for a data pipeline based on S3/SNS/SQS.

  • Software Engineer

    2016 - 2018

    Built first DC/OS framework on Elastic Stack using DC/OS Commons library. Helped identify requirements and troubleshoot issues with both the underlying library and the test suite.

  • Founder

    2007 - 2016

    Created language learning service that works in conjunction with existing collage and US Army Special Forces curricula. Salon.com: http://bit.ly/PxSYkf. SFChronicle front page: http://bit.ly/MVwGDu

  • Search/Analytics Architect

    2009 - 2015

    Built search/analytics solution for federal/state government agencies (e.g., usa.gov, whitehouse.gov, noaa.gov, nps.gov) that offer search to site visitors.

  • Lecturer, Arabic Language

    2006 - 2007

    Teaching Modern Standard Arabic

  • Engineering Intern

    1988 - 1992

    Held multiple software development positions in different groups within the Agency, primarily in SigInt organizations. Held TS/SCI clearance with full scope polygraph.

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