Alfred Chiesa

• Own end-to-end delivery across product engineering, platform, security, and compliance while serving as the primary execution leader under customer and regulatory deadlines. • Stabilized and scaled a distributed engineering organization by establishing clear ownership, delivery cadence, and escalation paths across multiple concurrent product streams. • Aligning Product and Engineering leadership around execution priorities, reducing delivery friction and restoring predictability across roadmap commitments. • Led successful SOC 2 and PCI-DSS 4.0.1 compliance programs, materially shortening enterprise security review cycles and enabling larger customer deployments. • Developing leadership depth across North America and India to support sustained scale from early growth to enterprise delivery.

• Led engineering for market-aware signaling and order systems on next-gen trading platform. • Established and led SOC 2, PCI-DSS, and EU compliance programs from ground zero to full certification. • Managed detailed design and optimization of critical machine learning models, improving efficiency and accuracy. • Led complex technology acquisition planning, execution, and success. • Fostered effective teamwork and processes in a dynamic, fast-paced technical environment.

• Built and managed the founding engineering team to transition external development in-house. • Identified and collaborated with new technology partners for clearing, custody, KYC/AML, and infosec functions. • Contributed to coordinating and executing cross-functional initiatives beyond technology, such as compliance, creative, and product efforts.

• Created an automated OCR product utilizing computer vision and natural language processing technologies. • Directed a distributed team of product, engineering, and sales professionals to achieve Midnight's product objectives. • Secured over $1 million in Seed funding. • Successfully sold to Fortune 250 corporations.

• Led the development of product, engineering, and sales roadmaps. • Promoted to CEO by board for organizational restructuring, overseeing office consolidation, headquarters relocation, and asset sale. • Successfully retired $1.4m in debt. • Designed and implemented an Engineering Operating Model along with a hiring plan. • Recruited top talent in machine learning, computer vision, platform engineering, and Ph.D. research.

• Developed technology staffing and mentorship plans in collaboration with territory managers to support local offices, maintain clear communication, and optimize resources. • Managed engineering and product teams to deliver a variety of digital and in-person experiences aimed at boosting monthly active users and acquiring new accounts. • Offered consistent engineering mentorship and organized professional skill development sessions in software, networking, and leadership. • Supported BizDev in forming key partnerships with Visa, Sony PlayStation, Oculus, and other industry leaders. • Organized and conducted an annual Directors of Technology summit.

• Collaborated with onsite and remote engineering teams to build Homes.com and RE/MAX mobile products. • Contributed to the transition of native code to a new javascript-to-native virtual machine for all mobile products. • Created custom user interfaces and native service components for iOS and Android platforms.

• Designed and implemented a web-based, FINRA approved stock brokerage. • Presented at LAUNCH Festival 2011 and TechCrunch Disrupt 2010. • Company successfully exited through acquisition in FY2011.

• Developed software, hardware, and process solutions to digitize ~190 AutoTrader publications nationwide. • Served as an engineering stakeholder for a multi-year data center consolidation initiative.