Summary
Yuri Broze is a seasoned technology leader and principal with over a decade of experience building high-performance data and engineering organizations for consumer and enterprise platforms. He has led mission-critical data systems at scale—ingesting and serving global product catalog data at Wayfair and optimizing subscription e-commerce engines at Birchbox—while also building analytics and ticketing foundations at TodayTix and Nomi. Equally comfortable in executive roles and hands-on technical work, he has established engineering organizations, career ladders, and recruiting strategies as VP Engineering at Noteable and Birchbox. Yuri pairs a strong academic background in statistics and music theory with practical expertise in operations research, cloud migration, and production machine learning pipelines. He’s now advising startups and investing through TFPI Enterprises while focusing on applying Generative AI to augment workflows across engineering, analytics, product, and marketing. A proponent of servant leadership and Deming-style quality, he’s driven by measurable outcomes and scaling teams that consistently deliver business impact.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Parkway Central High School
University of Michigan Medical School
Bachelor of Science - BS, Chemistry (2nd major Music), Bachelor of Science - BS, Chemistry (2nd major Music) at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Music Theory, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Music Theory at The Ohio State University
German, Spanish, French, English