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Ad Hoc Labs

Ad Hoc Labs

We make tools that help people connect without giving up their privacy. Burner is a second phone number that lets you set boundaries, screen calls, and keep your personal number personal.

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adhoclabs.co

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Google: SocialSoundSystem I am one eclectic eccentric Social Sound System with a healthy frustration with the world around me. I am a pragmatic-idealist who refuses to accept that simply because it is the ideal that it is unattainable... That there are always steps, we just gotta find the right ones even if they conflict with our own self interest. To achieve the impossible, "it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought." I want to change the way people think about music. If music is a measure of cultural identity, then I am for ANYTHING and EVERYTHING that keeps music moving forward. Technology and social media are pushing music beyond the reach of corporate dollars by placing it back in the hands of the fan. Music isn't a business... IT'S AN INALIENABLE RIGHT. And remember kids, the RIAA is not your friend. Specialties: Music, Online Media, Mobile Apps, Topspin Certified, Microsoft Office, knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite, Salesforce.com, Web 2.0, social media, social networking, personal branding, account management, data entry, community management, business development

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David is co-founder and Managing Partner of Founder Collective, a seed-stage VC fund. FC's portfolio includes Uber (NYSE: UBER) and TheTradeDesk (NYSE: TTD). Frankel was ranked as the #1 seed investor on the 2022 & 2023 Midas lists. He is the lead investor for Founder Collective in Coupang (NYSE: CPNG), Seatgeek & PillPack (acquired by Amazon). Previously, David was co-founder and CEO of Internet Solutions (IS), the largest ISP in Africa, ultimately acquired by NTT. Before Founder Collective, David provided the first capital for numerous companies including Olo (NYSE: OLO) where David continues to work closely with the company’s founder, Noah Glass. David is the co-founder of NextUp - a youth employment accelerator in South Africa (https://nextup.org.za/about-us/). In 2000, he was voted the South African Technology Achiever of the Century. The World Economic Forum later selected him for the Global Leader of Tomorrow (GLT) program. David holds an honors degree in Electrical Engineering (Wits) and, post selection for the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Program, earned an MBA with distinction from Harvard.

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Lead application developer with in-depth experience in software design, project/team leadership, performance and UX/Design. Extensive background with Kotlin and the Android SDK.

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I am a seasoned and business-focused technology leader with proven track record spanning 20 years in various domains such as mobile/desktop/web app development, multimedia/platform development, Microservices/cloud technologies, and embedded systems. Throughout my career, I've demonstrated exceptional relationship skills and business acumen to create strategies to consistently deliver complex enterprise-grade apps and micro services solutions at cost effective way. My main strength lies in converting complex customer requirements and business plans to strategy which can be used for seamless execution. I have successfully managed product lines generated 100s of millions of revenue. At TextNow I helped company reduced the operating cost while increasing the product quality and velocity helping company with profitable operation at scale of $100+ million. At 8x8 I managed their UCaaS Apps, backend micro services, CPaaS SDK/APIs which generated $400+ million in ARR. At Samsung led the development of world 1st commercial RCS stack and worked with various telecom operator to perform IOT Customer obsession is another trait which I embodied deeply, I led engineering efforts for customer sponsored program started by CEO at 8x8, resulted in saving millions of dollars through customer retention and churn reduction. I built and managed high performance geographically distributed full stack organizations to develop complex and innovative SaaS products. My understanding of business, customer focus and drive for innovation and impact I made, was acknowledged through various awards in past organizations • 8x8 Critical Talent Award for engineering excellence and help reduce churn by increasing customer satisfaction resulting in 10s of million of revenue conversation • TextNow Phonie Award for saving millions of dollar in carrier cost • Dialpad Thomas Edison award for Innovation for developing their Video conferencing full stack solution helping them gain Unicorn status • Samsung Business Contribution Award for year 2006 and 2007 • Samsung Core Employee Award and Samsung Spot Award for outstanding contribution

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I have over a decade of software engineering experience, specializing in functional programming, distributed systems, and Kubernetes. At Ripple, I've overseen AWS and Kubernetes architecture, led observability stack migrations, and driven infrastructure automation with Crossplane, Karpenter, and CDKTF. Previously at IBM, I led Kubernetes operator development for Red Hat Marketplace. At Pinpoint, I built cloud infrastructure using AWS services like Lambda, ECS, RDS, and Mongo Atlas. I enjoy tackling technical debt, revitalizing projects, and accelerating value delivery. I'm proficient in Golang, Java, Scala, Clojure, JavaScript, TypeScript, C#, and Ruby, with deep expertise in Kubernetes applications built with Golang.

Casey Marie Crowe

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Senior Product Designer at Ad Hoc Labs

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Identify, understand, plan, execute. Software engineer with a penchant for problem solving and sharing what I know. Experienced in full-stack web development, scalable system design, CI/CD, database design, etc.

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Engineer. Entrepreneur. Builder. From 0→IPO: I build systems and teams that help founders scale with confidence.