Micah Jaffe

Senior Engineering Manager

2021 - Current

Director of Engineering

2019 - 2020

Sr Development Manager

2016 - 2019

Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

2015 - 2016

VP Engineering

2014 - 2015

A financial services startup backed by Core Innovation Capital, IDG, First Round, Greylock, Stanford and AngelList. Part of StartX’s fall 2014 batch of startups and after demo day was picked by TechCrunch as one of their top five. I was fifth hire to spin up engineering team and technology, growing from 1 engineer to 20+ and building from prototype to consumer product. Vouch’s first products tackled the problem of good consumer lending options for an underserved population, with a strong emphasis on reaching mobile users via web and native iOS and Android.

Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

2012 - 2014

Connected payroll providers on disparate platforms to provide a consolidated, canonical understanding of an employee's income history for FCRA approved verifiers. Joined as employee #3 to build up software and team. • FairLoan launched Dec 2012, a consumer loan product built in 3 months with Pivotal Labs, fully in-house by Jan 2013. In Jan 2014 launched private beta of income verification product, Trulify. • Built vendor agnostic payroll integration platform for pushing and pulling data, including employment history and loan repayment via ACH.

Engineering Lead

2012 - 2012

Hattery Labs was an incubator, accelerator and investment firm specializing in UI/UX design, engineering, marketing and branding. Joined as first engineer, brought up technology and team.

Co-founder / CTO

2011 - 2012

An experiment in creating low-cost, original content video for scheduled broadcast, highlighting pop culture and weird news.

Developer

2010 - 2011

Smartphone display and broadcast streamed seamlessly to HDTVs. Two years before Chromcast, Snapstick demoed at CES 2011 with great coverage from Engadget, TechCrunch, VentureBeat and PCMag naming us "Best of Show". Laptopmag.com called us one of top 10 mobile start-ups of 2011.

Principal Software Engineer

2007 - 2010

Affinity Circles, Inc. offered a private social network software as a service (SaaS) for universities and professional associations and also worked with businesses to recruit talent in its networks.

Senior Software Engineer

2001 - 2007

My time at Yahoo was split distinctly between two groups: Data Mining (2001 to 2005) and My Yahoo (2005 to 2007).