Dan Siroker

Dan Siroker

Co-Founder at CarrotSticks

San Francisco Bay Area

Current
  • Co-Founder at CarrotSticks
Past
Education
  • Stanford University
  • Stanford University
Connections
132 connections
Industry
E-Learning
Websites

Dan Siroker’s Experience

  • Co-Founder

    CarrotSticks

    (E-Learning industry)

    February 2009Present (6 months)

  • Deputy Director

    Presidential Transition

    (Government Administration industry)

    November 2008January 2009 (3 months)

    Helped define the role of New Media during the transition and the administration. Implemented several pilot programs to achieve improved transparency, participation, and accessibility including "Open for Questions", "Join the Discussion", and "Your Seat at the Table"

  • Analytics Lead

    Obama for America

    (Non-Profit; 201-500 employees; Political Organization industry)

    July 2008November 2008 (5 months)

    Lead a team of software engineers and analysts to maximize voter contact, sign-ups, and donations. Helped the campaign raise more than half a billion dollars from small donations from millions of voters.

  • Product Manager

    Google

    (Public Company; GOOG; Internet industry)

    September 2006July 2008 (1 year 11 months)

    Lead the backend team that built Google Chrome. Previously responsible for launching several AdWords features with a total annual run rate of hundreds of millions of dollars.

  • Founder

    Sentiment Solutions

    (Computer Software industry)

    October 2005September 2006 (1 year)

    Founded a financial services company to predict the stock market using sentiment classification of financial news articles.

  • Research Assistant

    Stanford University

    (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)

    July 2000September 2003 (3 years 3 months)

    Spent four summers as a research assistant in research groups at or affiliated with Stanford. In chronological order: Database Group, NASA Ames, Robotics Lab, and the Natural Language Processing Group.


Dan Siroker’s Education

  • Stanford University

    M.S. , Computer Science with Distinction in Research (on leave) , 20052006

  • Stanford University

    B.S. , Computer Science with Honors , 20012005

    Thesis: Predicting the Stock Market using Sentiment Classification of Financial News Articles

    Activities and Societies:
    RA in Twain for two years

Additional Information

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Dan Siroker’s Honors:

BASES E-Challenge Business Plan Finalist (2005)
Best Undergraduate Research Award from Stanford Magazine (2005)
Stanford President’s Scholar (2001)
AP Scholar (2001)
Silicon Valley Scholar (2000)


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