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Alex Andon

Product at Meta

Menlo Park, California

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Work Experience

2019

  • Product

    2019

2016 - 2019

  • Senior Product Manager, Fraud Analytics

    2016 - 2019

    Led product initiatives across business, engineering and data science teams on digital payment fraud. Drove development of machine learning algorithms to detect risky customer behavior, delivering highly accurate prediction for the world's largest company.

2015 - 2016

  • Product Manager

    2015 - 2016

    Simility was acquired by PayPal for $120M. I was the first PM at this startup building advanced fraud-fighting tools for the new kinds of fraud enabled as the world moves to a digital marketplace economy.

2008 - 2014

  • Founder & CEO

    2008 - 2014

    Jellyfish Art was incubated by Y Combinator and acquired in 2014. I founded this company by selling pet jellyfish aquariums, then expanded it into a Shopify-like e-commerce platform. - Built e-commerce platform for specialty businesses, e.g. international live animal shipments. - Crowd funded product launch in Kickstarter's top-10 biggest campaign. - Built out live animal breeding facility and manufacturing across several factories. - Authored 3 product patents, won multiple product awards, and was featured on top media outlets: NY Times (cover), NBC, Wired, NY Mag, ABC, etc.