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
Paradigm is a research-driven crypto investment firm that funds companies and protocols from their earliest stages
Venture Partner
2015 - 2022
Technical advisor helping entrepreneurs at outstanding software companies execute private stock transactions.
Akkadian Ventures is a direct secondary investment firm that offers liquidity to early employees and investors of venture-backed businesses.
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.
Citadel Securities is a next-generation capital markets firm delivering critical liquidity and helping to shape the markets of tomorrow.
Raised $1,150,000,000.00 from Paradigm and Sequoia Capital.
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.
Primer develops a text analytics solution designed to automate the analysis of textual data.
Raised $237,049,995.00 from Angel Collective Opportunity Fund, Addition and US Innovative Technology Fund.
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.
DMI is a full-service commercial real estate syndication, management, construction, and brokerage firm that truly cares about delivering.
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.
FEDSIM delivers innovative solutions to the most challenging acquisitions.
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.
Defending Our Nation. Securing The Future.