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Modern Treasury is hiring: https://www.moderntreasury.com/careers?utm_source=yGoQp0pjoG
Experienced Founder, CEO, and product manager with a demonstrated history of working in FinTech, SaaS, and platform technologies. Worked across the industry—built acquired companies from the ground up, learned from both bootstrapped and venture-backed startups, and drove product for larger companies Strong product manager, having managed products in analytics, content management, machine learning, personalization/recommendations, financial services, and online video. MIT Engineer with skills in Ruby on Rails, APIs, user experience and interface design, and front-end frameworks. 
For the last 18 years, I’ve built and scaled tech companies with a focus on SaaS and marketplaces cos that serve a wide range of audiences. My experience spans marketing, sales, product, operations, and business development, giving me a holistic perspective on what it takes to drive growth, operational excellence, and build teams.
Equal parts data-driven and creative, I thrive on crafting and growing intuitive, impactful solutions that solve real-world problems while scaling teams and organizations effectively. Moving fast is and getting quick feedback loops is a must.
I'm currently focused on how AI is remaking all aspects of business - from GTM to back office.
Specialties: GTM strategy and execution, paid and organic growth, demand generation, content marketing, PR, fundraising, building and nurturing communities, strategic and channel partner development, organizational design, scaling companies and teams. 
- Chief Technology Officer | Head Of Product | Vice President Engineering @ Private Equity Backed And Fortune 500 Companies
- An entrepreneur, hands-on cross functional leader and software architect with 25+ years of creating products
- Built 18 scalable enterprise, web, and API products utilizing .NET, JAVA, open source and cloud systems
- Adept at crafting product vision and technology strategy to create improved customer experience
- An accomplished software engineering leader with rich industry experience in various verticals including employee engagement and fulfillment, travel, partner management, machine learning, big data, online services, location-based gaming, CMS, ecommerce, OCR, green energy, pet insurance and education
- A team builder and people connector with proven communication skills to develop, motivate and mentor independent, peak performing remote and geographically distributed teams
- Trustworthy, responsive and collaborative executive team member with deep business and technical acumen managing multi-million-dollar budgets
- Innovative, value driven and Lifelong learner with technology consulting background who rapidly learns, assimilates and leverages new and emerging technologies
- Empathetic and value driven technology leader with high EQ. Have attracted, developed and retained top talent building a strong network of engineers, product managers and people leaders
- Data Sciences and Machine Learning led product design and development
TECHNICAL EXPERTISE
- Expert in Cloud and Infrastructure Architecture on Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform
- Established Enterprise Architect with expertise in Microservices, Kubernetes, Docker, SOA, Design Patterns, .NET and Java
- Proficient in major SQL and No-SQL databases including Microsoft SQL Server and PostgreSQL
- Familiarity with Cassandra, Hadoop, Node.js, MongoDB, React, Vue and Angular, iOS, Android, Ruby on Rails, Python
STRENGTHS
- Entrepreneurial spirit, positive growth mindset and data engineering led application development
- Technology strategy and vision with crisp decision-making building experiences instead of focusing on features
- Strong business acumen with deep understanding of customer centric design and leveraging data driven decisions
- Security, governance and regulatory compliance professional
- Expert in global collaboration and partnerships 
Damon Clinkscales loves to help others along their path by sharing what he's learned, making connections, and building community.
Damon is a Backend Engineering Manager at HEB Digital, which operates out of the Eastside Tech Hub on East 6th Street in Austin.
From 2017 to 2022, Damon served as the Chapter Director of Startup Grind Austin, which is part of a global entrepreneurial community, originating in Silicon Valley over a decade ago.
Since 2005, he founded and cultivated Austin on Rails, Austin Open Coffee Club (entrepreneurs and investors meet over coffee), and Cafe Bedouins (a weekly hack night). He served as a mentor to Techstars Austin since it launched in 2013 and mentored entrepreneurial students in UT's Longhorn Startup Lab for its 6 years since launch in 2011.
He also helped launch FounderDating's Austin chapter, a Silicon Valley company focused on co-founder matching, by serving as its Managing Director from 2012-2014. 
