Owen Brown

Senior Engineering Manager

Veryfi turns documents into structured data with in-house ML models.

• Own all training-data creation end to end: hiring and managing annotation specialists and engineers, schema design, task specification, reporting, and measuring the impact of data on model performance.
• Manage a high-performing team of data engineers who programmatically curate and label data to solve client problems.
• As an IC, build and maintain data ingestion and cleaning pipelines; measure product accuracy, data accuracy, and annotation velocity; report labeling economics (services vs. in-house); run custom analyses such as F1 on unbalanced datasets.
• Member of the five-person executive committee; designed the company's performance-review process and built the system that runs it.

Product Manager

• Researched and communicated techniques for efficiently testing ads-ranking algorithm improvements in a compute-constrained environment.

Software Engineer

ZeroCater uses software to plan perfect meals for companies.

• Designed and built a food routing and labeling system, enabling several caterers to serve a single meal.
• Built the backend of an analytics dashboard and sales tool used to win enterprise deals.
• Created API endpoints for CloudCafe, a catering product that lets employees select boxed meals from restaurants.

Technical Product Manager, Data & Platform

Unison co-invests in people's homes and manages a $1B+ real estate fund.

• Designed and launched a multi-touch attribution system on Redshift, allowing easy calculation of CPAs for a diverse set of stakeholders.
• Created features for a machine-learning model predicting direct-mail response rate and investment amount.
• Product-managed Unison's Partner API, which partners use to refer customers in exchange for a commission; simplified it, saving six weeks of engineering time and delighting our best partner.
• Managed ETL from Google Analytics 360, Salesforce, and Facebook into a single view of the customer.

Co-Founder & CTO

Starbutter AI used machine learning and NLP to build chatbots that recommend financial products. Berkeley SkyDeck portfolio company (Fall 2017 cohort, 3% acceptance).

• Built the award-winning Credit Card Helper and dozens of other voice agents that reached 95,000 users a month; won Google's "Best New Action/Chatbot" (first Actions on Google Developer Challenge) and "Most Innovative Startup" at LeadsCon 2017.
• Architected a low-latency, high-elasticity AWS serverless voice application, minimizing 99th-percentile latency, which increased organic traffic and revenue on the Actions on Google platform.
• Built a Python SDK for creating bots on Facebook Messenger, Actions on Google, Amazon Alexa, and Google AdLingo; hired and trained engineers to build on it.
• Built a data pipeline scaling to big data on AWS Firehose, S3, and Athena, plus an analytics dashboard (Pandas, Docker, AWS Batch) to track KPIs; reached profitability on the AdLingo platform.
• Created structured interview, hiring, onboarding, and performance-review processes — high engineering output, low turnover, and a 4.8 Glassdoor rating.

Senior Business Operations Analyst

Ad-tech: System1 monetized remnant email marketing inventory, a highly profitable niche.

• Managed thousands of website configurations through which flowed over $100M of annual revenue.
• Product-managed a statistical testing tool written in R; used it to analyze website A/B tests.
• Used Python and multi-armed-bandit design principles to test features across thousands of websites, then managed the rollout of optimizations across every site.

Growth Marketing Analyst

Convertro pioneered multi-touch attribution; brands used its big-data SaaS to advertise more efficiently.

• Used multi-touch attribution, SQL, Vertica, and Python to manage Dish Network's Google AdWords, SEO, and affiliate programs, resulting in client renewal and the successful launch of Sling TV.

Investment Associate

• Helped the team grow assets under management from $106 million to over $985 million.
• Placed trades, created asset allocations, and modeled derivatives.