Eli Tucker

Leading engineering at Tumblr.

Leading product and engineering for the core Tumblr product.

Leading all of Tumblr's product feature, ads, and monetization engineering teams.

Started Tumblr's west coast engineering office. Lead teams working on the core product experience, advertising, and publisher support. Currently leading all product engineering teams in NYC and SF focused on community features and user retention.

Tried to make RussFests and Exit Events ring true.

Explained startups to Hollywood writers. Wrote code, resumes, and whiteboards. And shared some stories about hot dogs.

Leading engineering efforts of next generation content creation and publishing for teams based out of Yahoo's San Francisco and New York offices.

Leading engineering efforts on media projects based out of Yahoo's San Francisco office.

Co-founder of Vizify.com, the best place to show who you are online. Grew business to 500k signed up users. Sold to Yahoo in 2014. --- I have been involved with nearly every aspect of the business including fundraising, software architecture and development, cross org hiring, product direction, product management, operations, customer support, cloud management and spend, and marketing. But at heart I’m a software engineering leader and developer. I manage the day-to-day development and operations of our product while leading the software engineering team, including the core responsibilities of all feature planning, release planning, and engineering team management using agile development techniques. Initially developed backend systems of Vizify responsible for interacting with and mining data from external services, as well as developing a scalable architecture which has been tested to sustainably handle nearly a thousand sign-ups per minute using a custom distributed worker platform that retrieves and analyzes a user’s social data. We give new users a beautiful full bio in seconds and they barely need to lift a finger. I routinely create and execute analytical marketing/growth hacking plans using A/B testing and funnel analysis that have resulting in 5x returns in various aspects of the product, from email opens/clicks to sign-ups to shares. We regularly make changes to Vizify in an effort to increase both user growth and activity every week.

Managed the company's main engineering team which was responsible for developing major new features and maintaining the company's core product. Implemented Agile techniques that resulted in a 10x drop in production bug count and predictable quarterly release schedules all while consistently adding dozens of new major product features that improved revenue, customer retention, and customer acquisition.

Member of initial team of three developers who built and launched Monsoon Commerce's inventory management system for online retailers. During tenure, took product from initial launch to one that represented over 45 million active listings on marketplaces such as Amazon and eBay, priced over 6 million items each hour, and processed over 70 million orders worth over $1 billion.

Co-designed and developed a time, material, and equipment data tracking application for the construction industry designed for use on mobile devices and desktop PCs.

Architected and created mission critical web-based applications for placing calls over the internet (VoIP). Dealt directly with product management, quality assurance, and other developers as a technical lead. IP later sold to eStara, now Oracle.

Designed and created a multi-platform testing environment to measure speed of SwiftPro product line using multiple simulators and devices. Responsible for all stages of development from assessing what tool was needed to creating the final product and training others how to use it.