Professional
Product-focused and hands-on software engineering leader with a decade of experience building B2B SaaS products from 0 to 1, and scaling engineering teams from 0 to 50+.
I'm a builder. I love building products, and I love building companies. And I particularly enjoy the growth phase of a business.
Prior to B2B SaaS, I built large-scale consumer web and mobile products across several verticals reaching upwards of 100M active users per month, including health, food & drink, home improvement, travel, and others.
From small startups with just a few engineers to larger enterprises with geographically dispersed teams across time zones and cultures, I typically oversee all aspects of engineering including strategy, management, recruiting, architecture, development, infrastructure, and technical support.
But I also enjoy being hands-on and often serve a dual-role as chief architect, actively participating in software architecture, technical designs, code reviews, and writing production code.
Additionally, I'm a technical advisor for a few early-stage companies, and a minor investor in a few others.
Personal
Married, with children. Love cocktails and whisky/whiskey. Huge music fan. Avid road cyclist, but that was before I became a dad. Builder. I like tinkering and creating things. Tend to take my work seriously, so I strive to take myself less seriously as often as I can.
I consider myself a poker player (although there isn't much time for that these days) and appreciate the parallels between poker and the real world—such as using intuition to assess the probability of an outcome when making decisions. In other words, I'm a betting man.
Two truths and a lie about me:
- Climbed Machu Picchu
- Bartended Shaquille O'Neal's Album Release Party
- Once shared the same PR publicist as Steve-O (of Jackass fame)
I support Black Lives Matter, equity and inclusion, gender pronouns, higher education (does not always mean institutionalized education), youth mentoring, reducing climate change, cleaning up the ocean, decentralized currencies, and Wikipedia—yes, I donate to Wikipedia and encourage you to do so too.
Sometimes I also do a tiny bit of investing, and you may occasionally find me on social media.
How To Reach Me
Best way to reach me is via an intro.
I also read and respond to emails. However, with over 200+ emails received daily across multiple accounts, I'm unable to respond to everyone and will often times miss things.
Many marketing and salesy messages will be filtered out, and emails with incredibly cheeky openers will be visibly ignored (visibly ignored? did that make any sense at all?).
With that said, feel free to give it a go: jay at jay hung dot com.