David Azaria

dazaria@gmail.com | 510.517.5700 | San Francisco, CA

Experience

Aescape

Aescape is a pioneering robotics company revolutionizing the wellness industry by introducing exceptional massage experiences, redefining self-care as a consistent and personalized experience.

• Led the development and launch of the world's first fully automated, AI-powered massage robot, taking the product from prototype to production, delivering personalized massage experiences, and setting new industry standards.
• Scaled the engineering team from 15 to 200 engineers, leading software, hardware, robotics, and perception departments, while consistently delivering projects on budget.
• Identified and prioritized operational gaps, establishing and leading multiple engineering functions to enhance organizational effectiveness.
• Developed offshore engineering capabilities from the ground up, sourcing talent, establishing connections, and integrating them into existing processes to optimize resource allocation and operational efficiency.
• Fostered cross-functional collaboration, working closely with product management, finance, and manufacturing teams to align engineering initiatives with business objectives.
• Implemented tailored project management methodologies, applying Agile for software and Waterfall for hardware projects, enabling accurate estimations and on-budget, on-time delivery.
• Established comprehensive risk management strategies, proactively identifying and mitigating potential project risks to ensure successful outcomes.
• Developed patented technologies, contributing to Aescape's intellectual property portfolio and securing efficient legal counsel to strengthen the company's IP strategy.

Tonal

Tonal uses revolutionary dynamic weight that adjusts to your every move, delivering personalized workouts to help you be your strongest self.

• Took prototype to production, launching Tonal in September 2018
• Scaled the software engineering organization on plan and under budget, increasing team size from 5 to 110+ across eight timezones
• Established a software development and release process focused on maximizing quality and throughput, delivering weekly releases with extremely high quality, and zero misses after 2019
• Established eight high-performing departments:
  • Data Science/ML (DSP, Computer Vision, Personalization, Analytics)
  • Platform Engineering (Golang/PostgreSQL/Snowflake)
  • Content Engineering (Streaming/Encoding/Transcoding)
  • Software Infrastructure (AWS/Kubernetes)
  • Mobile Apps (Flutter/iOS/Android/AppleWatch)
  • Tonal device software (Android/Kotlin)
  • Web Development (React)
  • QA and Release Management
• Developed a custom video system supporting real-time injection of audio or video, supporting personalized content, partner workouts, and remote multi-device workouts
• Released Form Feedback, leveraging sensor fusion (motor encoder, IMUs, and Computer Vision)
• Launched algorithms to simulate various forms of resistance, and invented a new method of resistance training called Smart Flex with optimized resistance modulation per movement
• Developed live streaming multi-user workouts, synchronizing video feeds while delivering user-specific metadata for personalized workouts

Zephyr Health acquired by Anju Software

Zephyr Health's Market Insights solution uses Big Data to power precise and confident performance across the product lifecycle, from strategy to clinical research and commercial execution.

• Launched Zephyr Illuminate, high speed faceted search for Hospitals, Hospital Systems, and medical providers based on hundreds of criteria
• Scaled the Software Engineering organization to 40+ engineers and data scientists
• Presented quarterly BoD updates to Brook Byers (Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers) and Google Ventures
• Actively worked with the CEO on M&A, leading to the acquisition by Anju Software
• Modified all software to achieve HIPAA and SOC2 compliance
• Launched a high-precision record-linkage algorithm, leveraging adaptive boosting to connect Hospitals, Hospital Systems, and medical providers scraped from sparse data sources collected from the public domain, medical institutions, and customers (pharmaceutical and medical device companies)
• Created tooling to support supervised learning to continuously improve algorithm precision and recall

Keynote Systems acquired by Dynatrace

Keynote is the global leader in Internet and mobile cloud monitoring helping companies know precisely how their applications perform.

• Developed a real user monitoring product based on the navigation timing specification
• Developed a real time network operations dashboard
• Developed a single page, multi-viewed data visualization tool for synthetic and real user performance data
• Launched privacy tracking leveraging existing web scraping technology to monitor cookies and identify vulnerabilities and threats
• Re-architected software infrastructure, shipping new features while maintaining the legacy stack
• Speaker: Velocity 2013 - O'Reilly Conferences, "Real User Monitoring", June 18 - 20, 2013, Santa Clara, CA
• Speaker: O'Reilly Webcast, The Critical Path to Web Performance: Real Users' Footsteps, October 8, 2013
• Created a new application based on Backbone.js and a RESTful platform
• Introduced agile development processes and methodologies

Yodlee ipo

Yodlee is the online banking solution provider delivering core banking solutions to leading banks and millions of consumers around the world.

• Scaled the application development team from 2 to 20+, across four time zones
• Controlled the development and integration of FLEX "widgets" and a RESTful platform
• Pioneered the migration to agile development methodology from the Waterfall development process
• Led all work done between the UX/design team and the engineering organization
• Recognized as a Yodlee Key Contributor for leading the release of "Yodlee 10" and an app store
• Developed custom personal finance and payment applications for top financial institutions
• Awarded company "MVP" Award for development of tooling to automate integration and white labeling

Webpass acquired by Google Fiber

Webpass operates a point-to-point wireless mesh network in San Francisco and Oakland.

• Joined Webpass as third employee
• Developed internal management applications (LAMP stack) and registration portal from scratch as sole developer
• Managed web analytics and modified application workflows based on data and trends

Education

University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley Engineering is a community that is dedicated to creating tomorrow's leaders and supporting today's pioneers.

• Guest lecturer on computational modeling and simulation for a computational engineering course three times:
  • March, 2010
  • February, 2009
  • March, 2008
• Teaching Assistant
  • Engineering course in computational engineering, modeling and simulation
  • Lectured students in the fundamentals of programming design and execution
  • Provided one-on-one instruction to students