Matt Curcio
Principal at Self Employed
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Principal
2023 - Current
Self Employed is a contracting company that provides independent contracting services.
Investor & Advisor
2022
GIT1K is the End-User Syndicate for IT, Eng, Data, and Security leaders.
VP Engineering and Data Services
2020 - 2022
Managed a group of up to ~80 engineers. Launched new Liquidity product, created ML engineering teams and lead internal Finance and Compliance engineering in addition to all things Data.
Interim SVP Engineering
2020 - 2020
Led team of ~200 engineers including Blockchain, Product, Data, Ops, and InfoSec engineering. Grew team by ~50, increased engagement scores by 15 points and hired full time SVP to lead the team.
VP Data
2017 - 2020
Responsible for the Data Team which focuses on Data Engineering, Analytics and Data Science to guide the future of Digital Assets, blockchain, cross border payments, and The Internet of Value.
Ripple is a technology company that provides solutions for cross-border payments, crypto liquidity, and central bank digital currency.
Raised $293,800,000.00 from Uday Kumar Bangalore Shivaraman, The K Fund and Azure Ventures Group.
Principal Co-Founder
2016 - 2020
Data and technical consulting
Consultant, Acting Chief Data Officer
2017 - 2017
Bum
2016 - 2016
Taking some time off and enjoying myself...
VP Research and Development/Chief Data Scientist
2013 - 2016
Responsible for Data Science against all Neustar products, research for new products, and directing IP strategy. Primary focus on identity, ads, privacy. Curate our research blog: http://research.neustar.biz/ (with a comment from Richard Stallman!) https://agkn.wordpress.com/2014/09/15/riding-with-the-stars-passenger-privacy-in-the-nyc-taxicab-dataset/ the genesis of this Gawker article: https://www.gawker.com/the-public-nyc-taxicab-database-that-accidentally-track-1646724546
Neustar is a tech company that offers a range of cloud-based services for marketing and IT professionals.
Raised $53,000,000.00 from ABS Capital Partners.
Chief Scientist
2010 - 2013
Led R&D and IP team focused on big data algorithms for advertising. Resulting in streaming data framework for billions of events a day. Organized data streaming conference with Aggregate Knowledge and Foundation Capital. http://mysliceofpizza.blogspot.com/2013/06/data-science-summit-in-sf.html
Director of Research and Development
2006 - 2010
Research focused around large scale recommendation engine for content and ads.
Director of Research and Development
2002 - 2006
Responsible for predictive algorithms, neural networks, bayes nets and customer facing analytics primarily focused around apparel and human body dimension predictions.
Senior Research and Development Engineer
2002 - 2004
Algorithm Development for custom clothing business. Webservices in C#. Large scale database management. Data analysis for algorithm development and business performance monitoring.