Huned M. Botee • h@e-huned.com • (415) 680-3935
Summary: Huned is a broadly experienced engineer, innovator, and planner with a bent toward using data and information visualization to understand and solve problems, inform business decisions, and close efficiency gaps.
Experience
3/2009 – Present: VP, Engineering, Crowdcast – San Francisco, CA
I lead Crowdcast’s product development efforts. I am responsible for development, product quality, software architecture, and operations at Crowdcast.
- Manage a small Agile development team that builds Crowdcast’s Social BI solutions
- Report weekly development and operational metrics to the management team and CEO
- Report product roadmap updates to the Board of Directors each month
10/2008 – 3/2009: Independent Consultant – San Francisco, CA
Successfully completing large consulting engagements for stealth-mode Bay Area start-ups, including supplying turn-key product development team to companies that don’t have a technical staff.
Advising start-ups on challenges such as hiring well, streamlining product development process, strategic planning, and generating revenue.
Incubating data-oriented products:
- Pricing history visualization and location awareness makes finding an affordable place to live in San Francisco easier.
- Quantitative finance tools to explore equity market volatility.
Selected Clients:
- Sequoia Capital, a leading Venture Capital firm. In collaboration with TacoLab, built Sequoia Capital’s website. The design was very novel and received much attention from the press. Selected Press from VentureBeat: Sequoia Capital reduces its website … to a search bar
- Truviso, a leading Real-time Database vendor founded from research performed at UC Berkeley’s Computer Science Department. I built Truviso’s white label data visualization dashboard product in just six weeks. It is used by major TV networks today to measure reach of video programming published online.
- Crowdcast, a leading Prediction Market vendor. I subsequently joined Crowdcast to lead the company’s product development efforts.
9/2006 – 10/2008: Swivel - San Francisco, CA – Senior Software Engineer
Joined as full-time employee #5. Defined the company’s long term strategy beyond public data, with attention toward establishing and owning a Collaborative BI space rather than in competing in an already crowded, fragmented, and commoditized dashboard market.
With two other engineers, built the majority of Swivel, a large scale collaborative data warehouse, and Swivel’s ROLAP Business Intelligence product, Swivel Business Edition, which includes a real-time dashboard component. Led development of Swivel’s REST API which eases integration with existing data sources, Swivel’s iPhone dashboard interface, and the Swivel Query Language (SwQL).
Selected press
- Coverage of Swivel’s launch on TechCrunch. Several similar products subsequently emerged: Data360, GoodData, IBM’s Many Eyes, Google’s GapMinder, Birst.
- Swivel partners with the OECD, WHO, and other intergovernmental data providers to foster a culture of data awareness.
- Swivel’s CEO, Brian, speaks at the World Forum.
- Swivel is profiled by Gartner (report) and Fast Company (article); blurbs in Wired (article) and Nature (article).
- The blog post I wrote announcing Swivel’s API to the public.
1/2006 – 9/2006: KickApps – New York, NY – Project Manager
As KickApps’ first employee, defined and built significant parts of KickApps’ v1 backend prior to Series A funding. My schema design supported KickApps’ growth to hosting 10s of thousands of social networks.
Managed the project Gantt, task estimation, and work breakdown for a 20 person development team. Functioned as KickApps’ technical pre-sales engineer. Presented monthly updates to the Board of Directors.
Selected press
1/2004 – 3/2006: Koos Technical Services – Maitland, FL – Consulting Engineer
Successfully completed several consulting engagements and built relationships with start-ups and large enterprises, including Lockheed-Martin, Northrop-Grumman, Invivo Research, and L3 Communications.
As principal developer for start-up Real Digital Media, I designed and built the Neocast-XF embedded media player. RDM’s deployment has grown to 1000s of media players in the field across several continents.
8/2001 – 1/2004: Agilent Technologies (formerly Hewlett-Packard) – Santa Rosa, CA – R&D Software Engineer
Software developer on Agilent’s ADS, HFSS, and RFDE product lines.
Drove organizational change in a 100 person division by reporting metrics at the GM level. This served to align the entire R&D organization behind a united, quantitative effort to increase product quality, decrease customer attrition rates, and decrease support costs.
Skills
- I am deeply experienced in Big Data, Information Visualization, and Business Intelligence
- Data modeling, schema design, schema optimization
- SQL; multi-dimensional query optimization
- Designing for data warehouse scale (1000s of GBs, tens of millions of records per table)
- Data visualization, including integration with 3rd party APIs
- ETL with excel, csv, and sql to build connectors with BI frameworks
- I work cross-functionally within companies
- Designed and built several products from concept to launch
- Functioned in lead development, product management, sales, support roles at three start-ups
- Project and product management for small and medium sized teams
- I do programming contests
- RailsRumble 2008. Built a semantic search engine for apartments in the San Francisco Bay Area. (No longer online.)
- RailsRumble 2009. Built a Massively Multiplayer Online Game: Lazeroids. Lazeroids won 1st place in the Innovation category.
- NodeKnockout 2010. TBA.
- RailsRumble 2010. TBA.
- Technical skills
- Agile methodology: SCRUM, rapid prototyping
- Languages: Javascript, Ruby, HTML(5), CSS(3), SQL, noSQL, SVG, Python, Perl, PHP, Java, C++, C, shell
- Web Frameworks: Ruby on Rails, LAMP (PHP and Perl), Google App Engine, Amazon Web Services. I speak web APIs.
- Databases: MySQL, Postgres, sqlite, Mongo
- Retrofitting existing applications to Amazon Web Services and Google App Engine; building software-as-a-service (SaaS) components and APIs into existing systems
Education
2002 – 2003: Stanford University – Stanford, CA.
Graduate courses in Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering.
1997 – 2001: Duke University – Durham, NC
BSE with a double major in Electrical/Computer Engineering and Computer Science.
- Teaching Assistant for seven semesters in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science departments
- Placed 4th in 2000 Mid-Atlantic ACM Programming Contest.
Addenda
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- +1 (415) 680-3935
- http://www.linkedin.com/in/huned