Steven Roussey
Managing Partner at Embarc Capital
Steven Roussey
Managing Partner at Embarc Capital
West Hollywood, California
Overview
Work Experience
Managing Partner
2022 - 2023
Personal investment fund invests in emerging managers in VC, their SPVs, and various direct investments in technology companies. Built some tools to shift through company data, some of which trickles out to Embarc.com.
Founder
2019 - 2020
Mentor
2013 - 2018
VP Technology
2017 - 2018
Staff Engineer: Architecture, Infrastructure, and Performance
2016 - 2017
Built a high-performing team by hiring and providing pan-engineering technical leadership, resulting in improved collaboration and innovation across the organization, and enhancing overall productivity and quality of work.
Head of Platform
2013 - 2017
Proactively proposed and led the development of Weebly's platform and app store strategy, evangelizing to partners, and leading a cross-functional team across multiple departments including product, engineering, business development, customer success, and marketing, and facilitating hiring in each area as needed.
Head of Ecommerce
2011 - 2013
* Spearheaded the design and development of a comprehensive e-commerce system for Weebly users, encompassing both back-end and front-end components. This system included a versatile shopping cart, sophisticated inventory management, streamlined payment processing, and administrative area for creating and managing personalized online stores. * Designed a custom ORM in PHP that reflects into JavaScript through a MVVM (MVC variant) system utilizing BackboneJS, Backbone-Relational, and Marionette. Patents both pending and granted.
Senior Software Engineer
2011 - 2011
Cofounder & CEO
2008 - 2011
CEO
1998 - 2010
Education
EE
1988 - 1994