Sebastian Slight
Product Manager at Roku Inc.
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSebastian Slight is a product manager and MBA graduate based in Boston with nine years of cross-functional experience at the intersection of finance, data and ad tech. He currently leads product strategy for ad performance at Roku, optimizing over $1B in advertising spend and guiding a 10-person engineering team on auction and ML-driven solutions. His background in investment banking, corporate finance and research—where he structured $300M+ deals and managed multi-hundred-million dollar portfolios—gives him a rare blend of quantitative rigor and product intuition. An early adopter of engineering practices, he has contributed backend improvements to the open-source Orchest project to boost code quality and developer experience. Results-oriented and proactive, he seeks roles that scale revenue and operational efficiency through data-informed product design.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Academic Exchange Program, Academic Exchange Program at University of OtagoMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at The University of Chicago Booth School of BusinessBachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Ingeniería Comercial, Business Administration and Economics, Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Ingeniería Comercial, Business Administration and Economics at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Spanish, English
Github Skills (17)
static-typing10
python10
dynamic-typing10
authentication10
user-authentication10
implicit-typing10
flask-ask10
optional-typing10
strong-typing10
flask10
data-pipeline8
data-pipelines8
dockers7
docker7
kubernetes-pods6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
orchest/orchest
Aug 2022 - Aug 2022
Build data pipelines, the easy way 🛠️
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 6 commits, 1 PR in 1 day
Contributions summary:Sebastian primarily focused on enhancing the auth-server component of the Orchest project. Their contributions centered around adding type hints to the `utils.py` and `views.py` files to improve code maintainability and readability. They also updated imports within the auth server application, removing the runtime loading of the `_typeshed` module. These changes demonstrate a focus on improving the backend code quality and developer experience.
pythondataorchestdagproduction
sbarrios93/dotfiles
Feb 2022 - Jul 2023
Contributions:145 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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