Stu West
Advisor, Investor at Precanto
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolStu West is a seasoned finance and operations executive with 31+ years of experience scaling technology companies from early-stage ventures to billion-dollar freemium/SaaS businesses. He served as the first CFO at Grammarly and Automattic, leading large financings, global restructurings, M&A and the build-out of finance, HR, legal and analytics teams while managing distributed organizations of 1,000+ people. Comfortable in both board/advisor and hands-on operator roles, he advises startups and investors and has helped orchestrate strategic exits, acquisitions (including Tumblr) and high-profile financings. A former investment banker and early public-company finance leader, Stu pairs deep capital markets expertise with product-oriented operational instincts and occasional software development experience. Based in San Francisco, he blends pragmatic scaling playbooks with experience across consumer internet, enterprise SaaS and digital media.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Deerfield AcademyBachelor's Degree History, Bachelor's Degree History at Yale University
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Github Skills (46)
javascript10
translation10
wordpress10
internationalization10
redux10
screensaver10
localization10
api10
cldr10
nodejs10
react10
dataflow-programming9
solidity9
contract9
blockchain9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
stuwest/wp-cldr-plugin
Feb 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 3 days
data-repositoryleverageslocalewordpresscurrency
Automattic/wp-cldr
Mar 2015 - Jun 2019
Use CLDR localization data in WordPress
Contributions:6 releases, 132 commits, 65 PRs in 4 years 3 months
wordpresstranslationinternationalizationlocalizationcldr
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