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Adam Haney

Technology Leader, Investor, 2x Founder

New York, New York

Invests in

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,500,000.00

Skills

Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Technology Management
Program Management
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Cross-functional Team Leadership
Startups
Product Development
Early-stage Startups
Leadership
Business Strategy
Management
Web Applications
Product Management
Software Engineering
Machine Learning
Data Mining
Data Analysis
Data Science
Software Development
Start-ups

Work Experience

  • Head of Technology

    2024

  • VP of Engineering

    2021 - 2024

    Leading a fully remote international organization of 80+ team members including Machine Learning, Product Engineering, Design, Professional Services, Solutions Engineering, IT, and Analytics with responsibilities including technology vision, SDLC, team performance management, and security.

  • Limited Partner

    2022

    Advise engineering and technology teams in the Brickyard Portfolio

2020

  • Angel Investor / Advisor

    2020

2021 - 2024

  • Angel Investor

    2021 - 2024

    Acquired by Nvidia

2021 - 2021

  • Software Engineering Manager

    2021 - 2021

    - Supported the Discovery team for Bulletin.com which was a part of Facebook News department within the Social Responsibility Organization.

The House

2017 - 2021

  • Chief Technology Officer

    2017 - 2021

    I was responsible for the design and implementation of a suite of mobile and web applications that showcased live geolocated event information that allowed users to find the best live music, restaurant specials and community events near them. The application also included an extensive ads analytics platform to provide insight to our customers about the visibility and performance of their posted events. This project required me to set the overall product direction, coordinate remote contractors as well as work as an individual contributor across technologies including React Native, Kubernetes, Django, Postgres, Elastic Search, Presto, Airflow and AWS.

2013 - 2017

  • Director of Research and Development

    2016 - 2017

    Led a team of engineers working across departments to discover opportunities for new initiatives and process improvements across the company.

  • Chief Technology Officer

    2013 - 2016

    I was responsible for sourcing, onboarding and managing the engineering team, setting the technical vision for the company and creating any technical components within our product or infrastructure necessary for us to achieve our goals. I joined as the first engineer, grew the initial development team while developing processes for prioritizing our product roadmap. As the team advanced I lead the transition into discipline oriented teams while also still being responsible for the entire technology infrastructure of the business from our flagship product to telephony systems. As we continued to grow I was also tasked with leading the growth team where I set marketing strategy and developed processes for us to measure the effectiveness of our numerous marketing channels as well as developing a conversion rate optimization team that worked with our ad buyers to make sure our channels/messaging/funnels were well aligned.

2011 - 2013

  • Chief Technology Officer

    2011 - 2013

    Retickr was the #1 desktop news app in the Mac OS store. I was responsible for architecting the entirety of the application including data modeling, infrastructure and data collection. I also interviewed, hired and trained the engineering team.

  • Remote Data Analysis and Visualization Intern

    2010 - 2011

    Worked on distributed systems primarily housed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory to take scientific data and put it in a usable format for data visualization.