Jonathan Xu
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Belmont, California
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Work Experience
2016
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
2014 - 2016
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.
2012 - 2014
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.
2010 - 2012
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.
2009 - 2010
First Engineer
2009 - 2010
Social network for activities and hobbies.
2008 - 2009
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.
2004 - 2008
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.
2006 - 2008
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.
2000 - 2004
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.
1999 - 2000
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++.