Gene Drabkin
VP Of Engineering at Level All
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGene Drabkin is a seasoned engineering executive with 15 years of experience scaling product and platform teams across startups and tech giants, now serving as VP of Engineering at Gusto in San Jose. He has led organizations from early-stage co-founder roles to running 300+ engineer global teams as CTO of FLYR, specializing in deploying AI and deep learning to optimize high-stakes revenue systems. At Meta he built platforms serving over a billion business users and oversaw payments and billing flows that processed the vast majority of the company's revenue, demonstrating comfort at the intersection of infrastructure, ML, and global payments. Earlier roles at Atlassian and Groupon show a track record of rebuilding teams, migrating large products, and integrating acquisitions. An active mentor through First Round Fast Track and advisor to startups, he pairs operator experience with a penchant for pragmatic engineering culture change. Not obvious from titles: he’s repeatedly delivered rapid product migrations and rebuilt engineering organizations from the ground up, a strength that makes him effective at late-stage scaling inflection points.
15 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Computer Science, Bachelor Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Github Skills (14)
ruby-client10
hash10
data-api10
ruby-hash10
converter9
api9
xml9
ruby8
faye7
translator2
messaging2
rails2
zuora1
api-client1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
cloocher/aggcat
Mar 2013 - Jul 2016
Ruby client for Intuit Customer Account Data API
Contributions:126 commits, 5 PRs, 12 pushes in 3 years 3 months
apidata-apiaccountruby-clientruby
cloocher/xmlhasher
Apr 2013 - Sep 2018
Fast XML to Ruby Hash converter
Contributions:68 commits, 6 PRs, 19 pushes in 5 years 5 months
hashxmlrubyruby-hashconverter
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