Sema Technologies Inc
Head of Engineering
April 2025 – May 2026
- Created a product-oriented engineering culture in which engineers contribute to product decisions and focus on product outcomes
- Mentored engineering and product teams on effective approaches to evals, agents, infrastructure, and LLMs
- Established observability and DevOps practices, increasing release frequency from once every two weeks to 5–8 times a day
- Led the hiring of strong heads of product, IT, and design
- Established hiring (pipeline software and interview stages designed from scratch with clear, delegable criteria that preserve hiring quality), IT (SOC 2, device management, security), and HR (a workable system with extensive automation and proper vacation tracking) processes
- Restructured and grew the engineering department from 3 to 15 engineers