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I am a proven starter and tech professional, who has served in various leadership roles for early-stage and enterprise companies. 
 Achieving Billion dollar valuations on two separate startup ventures. 
  
 My undergraduate education was at Swarthmore College where I earned a BS in Engineering. Working briefly in commercial / residential land development afterwards. Fostering an early admiration for new development. 
  
 I later joined the social media startup Vkontakte. Which allowed matching analytical thinking with my love for tech. It was a natural progression. 
  
 At VK I served as Director of International Strategy under COO and 
 CFO. Noteworthy contributions include : rebranding site to VK.com, 
 iPod growth campaigns for global expansion, led partnerships 
 with likes of Apple, Google, PayPal, etc. During tenure at VK, the 
 company grew from 100 ,000 accounts to over 100 Million daily active 
 users. Achieved peak valuation of $3 Billion USD. 
  
 In 2012 , I was a Co-founder & CIO of Telegram Messenger, 
 responsible for creating / operating global businesses, overseeing 
 build-out of a custom cloud designed to optimize speed, security 
  and reliability. We launched in 2013 to much fanfare and ultimately 
 reached over 1 Billion messages per day. 
  
 Peaking initially in 2014 at 15 Million downloads per day, users on 6 continents, 
 Telegram quickly reached a valuation in excess of $1 Billion USD. 
  
 Since then, my efforts were primarily focused on US projects, 
 branching into various industries. From 2015-16 I served as CCO 
 of Blackmoon Financial Group, helping enter the US fintech market. 
 In 2017-18 , I co-founded a Voice startup for hospitality service 
  	   
  
 optimization, and drove efforts to bring a software engineering 
 bootcamp into my hometown. 
  
 The thrill of the tech remains my passion as I continue to seek 
 rewarding opportunities to help others. I desire till  to remain 
 creative while leveraging of my verifiable tech experience. My 
 current role with Indeed.com embodies this, where our company 
 motto is We Help People Get Jobs. Feel free to contact me via 
 LinkedIn.

Y Combinator Startup School

Swarthmore College

Griffith Institute High School

Product Department Head

Axel Neff

Indeed.com

Product Department Head at Indeed Research

- Built a global dispersed team of 45 Product Managers
- Onboarded a network of dedicated engineering vendors for hybrid delivery
- Launched a native mobile apps development program
- Graduated multiple employees into senior roles both internal and external

- Directed business operations from seed through growth
- Provisioned branding, trademarks and domains
- Created a private cloud network for high speed, high 
 bandwidth, multi-platform application
- Established points of presence (PoPs) on four continents with private ASN
- Won 2014 Europas award for fastest growing startup
- Became #1 app on Apple App Store and Google Play Store in more than 50 countries

Telegram Messenger

Co-Founder/CIO

- Led US based subsidiary entities for western business
- Rebranded site from Vkontakte.ru to VK.com
- Localized the site into 50+ languages
- Launched iPod promotion campaign for global expansion
- Achieved viral growth, attaining over 100 million DAU
- Ranked in top 10 most popular websites in the world
- $3 billion USD valuation in 2014 private sale

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