Chief Technology Officer
Voio · 2026 – present
San Francisco, CA
- Building petabyte-scale data infrastructure and machine learning models for radiology.
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- Host
- San Francisco, CA
- Role
- CTO, Voio (2026–)
- Study
- PhD Student, Computational Precision Health, UC Berkeley + UCSF (2025–)
- Board
- Board Member, University of San Diego (2021–)
- Investing
- Angel investor and startup advisor (2017–)
- Previously
- Head of Engineering, Uber (2010–2017)
- Shipped
- Uber, UberEats, UberFreight, Expensify
- Patents
- 2 filed (on-demand services)
- Hobbies
- photography, wakesurfing, motorcycles
- Uptime
- 27 years writing software
- Links
- CV GitHub LinkedIn
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Files — ~/experience
1PhD Student, Computational Precision Health
UC Berkeley + UCSF · 2025 – present
Berkeley and San Francisco, CA
- Computer vision for radiology, advised by Adam Yala.
- Cardiology research, advised by Geoff Tison.
Board Member, Board of Trustees
University of San Diego · Jul 2021 – present
San Diego, CA
- Founded and funded the Center for Digital Civil Society, which advocates for equitable and responsible AI and data science.
- Created a fund that sends students to the NSBE, SHPE, SWE, SASE and ACM conferences.
- Created a scholarship for international women in computer science.
- Serves on the Investment and Academic Affairs committees.
Angel Investor and Startup Advisor
Independent · 2017 – present
San Francisco, CA
Head of Engineering
Uber · Dec 2010 – Oct 2017
San Francisco, CA
- Joined when Uber had about 10 drivers and a $1M gross bookings run rate; gross bookings reached $34.4B in 2017.
- Designed the architecture for the whole software stack: the real-time dispatch system, mobile apps, pricing, queuing and data science systems.
- Grew engineering from 3 to 40 engineers before hiring a CTO to take over management.
- Created the Growth team that helped Uber expand to cities worldwide.
- Started UberEats and UberFreight and led the engineering teams that built them.
Senior Software Engineer
Expensify · Jun 2009 – Dec 2010
San Francisco, CA
- Built the backend business logic, the website and the iOS app.
- Built a workflow that scanned receipts with AI and humans within 15 seconds of upload.
Senior Software Engineer
Akamai · Dec 2007 – Jun 2009
San Francisco, CA
- Built the client-side JavaScript library for the P2P download manager used by Adobe, Blizzard and the NFL.
- Embedded with large clients, such as Blizzard’s Battle.net, to rebuild their software on the P2P stack.