Jonathan Xu

Chief Technology Officer

2021

Nimble’s mission is to empower reliable consumer access to medications at reasonable cost. I am responsible for UX research, product, design, data, and engineering. 2017: re-built engineering team 2018: engineered business pivot from fully integrated pharmacy to pharmacy platform 2019+: building and scaling products and experiences for pharmacies, patients, and life science companies Since our pivot at end of 2018, we have grown gross-merchandise-value (GMV) from 0 to $3B run-rate at end of 2023. We are now serving ~2M patients per year. We have done so with an empowered team of less than 40 people across all of product organizations, and about 100 people in all of NimbleRx. We are growing, come join our mission.

VP Engineering

2016 - 2021

CTO

2014 - 2016

FunPlus is a game company with six studios worldwide. It was founded in 2010. While I was CTO, Funplus grew revenue 8X from $40M in 2014 to over $300M in 2016. FunPlus is privately valued at ~$7B as of 2021.

Co-founder, CTO

2012 - 2014

GemShare is a local recommendation network from friends and friends of friends. It is funded by Second Avenue Partners, Rich Barton, and Greylock Partners. GemShare iOS app was featured by Apple as Best New App in Lifestyle category, and had averaged 5-star reviews. GemShare was acquired by Nextdoor in 2014.

VP Engineering

2010 - 2012

Kabam creates free-to-play games for mobile and web. While I was there, Kabam grew revenue more than 20 fold to more than $200M. Kabam was valued at over $1B as of August 2014; and it was partially acquired for $800M in December 2016.

First Engineer

2009 - 2010

Social network for activities and hobbies.

Engineering Manager

2008 - 2009

AtHoc provides network-centric emergency notification systems and protect over 2 million personnel. AtHoc is funded by Greylock. In 2015, AtHoc was acquire by BlackBerry for $250M.

Engineering Lead, Principal Member of Technical Staff

2004 - 2008

Fortify pioneered a new approach to software security. Fortify builds product on Java stack. Fortify was funded by KPCB. In 2010, Fortify was acquired by HP for $275M.

Founder (Part-time)

2006 - 2008

FreePledge enabled consumers to support their nonprofits by shopping online and donating affiliate fees from retail websites. FreePledge was a finalist in Stanford Social Entrepreneurship Competition 2006.

Senior Software Engineer

2000 - 2004

ePeople developed consumer Q&A product. ePeople was funded by Redpoint. ePeople developed on Java stack. I completed a 2-year Stanford master degree in 9 months while working part time.

Technology Evangelist (Part-time / senior year)

1999 - 2000

Database research. Campus recruiting.

Software Design Engineer (Intern)

1999 - 1999

2-time SDE intern in Windows 2000 Network team. C/C++.