Merrill Lutsky
Founder of Graphite
Merrill Lutsky
Founder of Graphite
New York, New York
Overview
Work Experience
Co-founder/CEO
2020 - Current
Graphite is a modern code review tool for fast-moving teams.
Raised $2,499,987.00 from BoxGroup and Neo.
Product
2019 - 2020
Working with a few exceptional early-stage companies in NYC to create & refine their product strategy & process
Software Engineer
2018 - 2019
Switched to software engineering to explore a personal passion, helped to build out SelfMade's integration with Facebook's ads API and a new product to help small eCommerce stores easily run giveaways on Instagram. Worked with Meteor, Mongo, React, various AWS services...
Product Manager
2017 - 2018
Led Product at SelfMade through initial iterations of a deep learning-enhanced photo editing app for influencers and a pivot to creating Instagram content for small eCommerce brands at scale. For the 6 months prior to transitioning to engineering, I led a cross-functional effort to launch SelfMade's ads product, which integrated our content creation pipeline with Facebook's Ads API to enable our customers to easily create, launch, and manage paid ad campaigns.
SelfMade uses technology to connect members with professional image editors, allowing them to build a powerful brand at an affordable price.
Raised $16,000,000.00 from ff Venture Capital.
Product Manager
2015 - 2017
As a PM at Oscar, I worked on doctor appointment scheduling & Electronic Health Records system integrations, our doctor search engine, telemedicine interfaces, new user on-boarding flow, insurance ID card design & manufacturing, and provider-facing software platform. For my last 8 months, I led a cross-functional effort to enable Oscar plan members to instantly book doctor appointments from our web & mobile apps. This required building a platform to support integrations with multiple Electronic Health Records systems, negotiating integration deals with each EHR, launching & optimizing the member-facing booking flow, recruiting & on-boarding doctors to the program, and building tooling to minimize the operational work needed to scale instant scheduling.
Oscar is a health insurance company that offers individual and family plans, medicare advantages, and small group products.
Raised $1,632,500,000.00 from Lakestar, Reinvent Capital, Khosla Ventures, Dragoneer Investment Group, Tiger Global Management, Coatue, Baillie Gifford, Founders Fund, General Catalyst and Alphabet.
Product Consultant
2013 - 2015
Product Consultant on Square's Customer Engagement and Business Operations team, working on Square's digital receipts program.
Square is a software company that designs and develops omnichannel solutions.
CEO
2012 - 2013
Co-founded a Y Combinator-backed startup building iPad-based customer feedback solutions for retailers, restaurants, and hospitality. I ran Posmetrics’s day to day operations, managed a team of 5 developers and salespeople, and met with investors, partners, and major clients. Started as a class project, Posmetrics won Harvard’s i3 Innovation Challenge and the Kairos Society K50 award, went through Y Combinator’s Winter 2013 startup incubator class, raised $510k in seed funding, and was acquired in the summer of 2013.
Software Development Intern
2012 - 2012
Built a back-end script in PHP to collect a user’s FourSquare check-ins and convert them into “feats”, and a front-end interface for the users to watch their points be tallied and simultaneously see an animated map move to the location of each check-in.
DailyFeats is a provider of software products and services with a focus on positive actions, well-being, and behavior change.
Raised $5,960,003.00 from Costella Kirsch and Western Technology Investment.
Education
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)
2011 - 2015