DAVID STANKE davidstanke@gmail.com 281 4th Street, Jersey City, NJ 07302 917-902-0055 http://davidstanke.com Engineering Leader * Inspiring engineering teams to deliver polished, performant, intuitive solutions for users * Hands-on engineering, DevOps, project management, and product management experience * Strategic product leader of Google Cloud software build solution, Bazel * Founding CTO of event ticketing startup OvationTix, acquired by AudienceView * Small-company urgency launching e-commerce, media, and SMB SaaS products * Enterprise discipline and operational rigor at Google * Recruiting, organizational strategy, customer engagement, stakeholder communications EXPERIENCE 2014 - Present Technical Product Manager, Google Cloud Google's next-generation software build system, Bazel, is an OSS software development tool used by engineers at companies including Stripe, Spotify, Wix, Uber, SpaceX, and Google itself. * Lead product manager, responsible for defining, achieving, and demonstrating success * Inspire 50+ engineers, plus user experience designers, technical writers, and marketers to deliver highly refined, beautiful, performant solutions * Design and implement integrations with multiple Google Cloud and third-party technologies: CICD, storage, UI, packaging * Establish, monitor, and communicate success metrics to leadership and stakeholders * Mentor team members in technical and non-technical roles * Expand and coordinate international community of users and contributors * Optimize flow of code and information between GitHub and Google-internal sources 2002 - 2014 CTO, OvationTix / TheaterMania OvationTix.com (a service of TheaterMania) is the leading SaaS ecommerce platform for performing arts, processing over $100 million of event tickets annually. It was recently acquired by AudienceView, a competitor, which is in the process of transitioning its customers to the OvationTix system. TheaterMania.com is the Web’s leading portal for theater news and information, with monthly traffic of over 1 million visitors. * Reporting to CEO, led technology and product from inception through launch and rapid expansion * Hired and mentored integrated team of 20+ engineers and product designers * Recruited and managed overseas engineering team on Java/MySQL/Linux stack, then transitioned to in-house engineering team * Spearheaded intensive performance optimization project to achieve 60,000+ simultaneous e-commerce transactions per minute on OvationTix * Developed mobile application for synchronized real-time barcoded ticketing access control * Introduced Agile methodology * Implemented service-oriented architecture to minimize security vulnerabilities and streamline PCI-DSS regulatory compliance * Designed and managed migration of active TheaterMania content and users from legacy technology onto highly scalable LAMP stack on the AWS cloud * Maximized brand exposure through aggressive SEO and 500,000+ daily email volume * Developed supporting ecosystem of products including iOS app, Facebook entertainment application, and monthly digital magazine for multiple mobile platforms 2001-2002 Programming & Design Consultant Clients included Vivendi Universal, iN DEMAND pay-per-view, and Atlantic Records. * Led international team of designers and engineers to relaunch Vivendi’s global consumer site 1998 - 2001 Director of Development, Goldcap Design A full-service design and engineering firm for websites and print materials. * Led the company’s expansion from 2 founders to 10+ engineers and product designers * Hired and managed all engineering, design, and operations resources EDUCATION Columbia University MS, Technology Management, 2012 Brown University BA, Social Psychology, 1998