Hal J Eisen

Portrait of Hal

Experienced Technical Leader and VP of Software Engineering at top Silicon Valley high-growth startups (Fintech, Series C, $90M funding; Biotech, Seed Round, raised $5M funding; Adtech, $1MM/day revenue program, 4MM visitors per day, top 5 advertiser in the world). Proven history of successfully increasing revenue while lowering costs and reducing time to market. Inspirational leader who builds high-performing organizations (onshore, offshore or nearshore) through cross-functional relationships, systems thinking, and mentoring/coaching.

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BIOGRAPHY

Born and raised around New York City. At age 8, he wrote his first program in BASIC on the Commodore PET microcomputer, and soon after learned 6502 assembly. Attended the Exploration summer program at Wellesley where he programmed a medieval combat simulator, and studied electronics at Harvard summer school where he built a single board computer from scratch. Graduated with a BS in Computer Science from The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD. Ran the first benchmark of a commercial RDBMS on a Cray supercomputer. Took a commision from the Maryland Science Center to build a computer kiosk to teach and demonstrate fractals and chaos theory, which was installed and in active use for over 10 years. Moved to the SF Bay Area in 1997, just in time for the dot com boom. Went backpacking in New Zealand and Australia during the dot com bust. Worked at 5 startups over 20+ years in Silicon Valley. Volunteered with The Center for AIDS Services in Oakland, CA.

PASSIONS

INSPIRATION

RESULTS

Compliance Speed Revenue
Achieved PCI and SOC2 certifications Improved software speed by more than 100x Increased revenue by onboarding enterprise clients

EXPERTISE

EDUCATION

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