Steven Roussey

Engineer and Investor

West Hollywood, California

Skills

Database Modeling
Debugging
Startup Environments
Large Language Models (LLM)
Next.js
Development Tools
Cross-functional Team Leadership
Technical Advisory
TypeScript
Data Privacy
Application Programming Interfaces (API)
Entrepreneurship
Mobile Applications
Web Development
Start-ups
User Experience
E-commerce
Product Management
Software Development
Analytics

Education

Work Experience

2022 - 2023

  • Managing Partner

    2022 - 2023

    Personal investment fund invests in emerging managers in VC, their SPVs, and various direct investments in technology companies. Built some tools to shift through company data, some of which trickles out to Embarc.com.

2019 - 2020

  • Founder

    2019 - 2020

2013 - 2018

  • Mentor

    2013 - 2018

2017 - 2018

  • VP Technology

    2017 - 2018

2011 - 2017

  • Staff Engineer: Architecture, Infrastructure, and Performance

    2016 - 2017

    Built a high-performing team by hiring and providing pan-engineering technical leadership, resulting in improved collaboration and innovation across the organization, and enhancing overall productivity and quality of work.

  • Head of Platform

    2013 - 2017

    Proactively proposed and led the development of Weebly's platform and app store strategy, evangelizing to partners, and leading a cross-functional team across multiple departments including product, engineering, business development, customer success, and marketing, and facilitating hiring in each area as needed.

  • Head of Ecommerce

    2011 - 2013

    * Spearheaded the design and development of a comprehensive e-commerce system for Weebly users, encompassing both back-end and front-end components. This system included a versatile shopping cart, sophisticated inventory management, streamlined payment processing, and administrative area for creating and managing personalized online stores. * Designed a custom ORM in PHP that reflects into JavaScript through a MVVM (MVC variant) system utilizing BackboneJS, Backbone-Relational, and Marionette. Patents both pending and granted.

  • Senior Software Engineer

    2011 - 2011

AppCenter Inc.

2008 - 2011

  • Cofounder & CEO

    2008 - 2011

  • CEO

    1998 - 2010