Jason Crawford

Past

Lead SDE, Mobile Software at Pelago
Team Lead, Landing Page Optimization at Amazon.com
Research Engineer and Business Developer at D. E. Shaw Research and Development, LLC

Research Intern at Akamai Technologies
Research Intern at Caltech Center for Advanced Computing Research
Undergraduate Researcher at CMU Parallel Data Lab
High School Intern at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

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Education

Carnegie Mellon University

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Jason Crawford’s Summary

Entrepreneurial mind with a strong technical background. Spent over a year as Lead Engineer for Mobile Software at Pelago, the first investment out of the Kleiner Perkins iFund. Responsible for Pelago’s flagship iPhone app, Whrrl, available now in the App Store. Prior experience includes Amazon (Team Lead, Landing Page Optimization) and D. E. Shaw & Co (Research Engineer. Computer Science degree from Carnegie Mellon University (2001).

Accepting immediately for contracting and consulting engagements by phone or onsite in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Jason Crawford’s Specialties:

Software development (especially iPhone and Java); computer science; product and program management; teambuilding; quantitative analysis; writing and speaking.

Jason Crawford’s Experience

Lead SDE, Mobile Software

Pelago

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

February 2007 — October 2009 (2 years 9 months)

Lead engineer for Pelago's mobile software efforts, including J2ME and iPhone. Made major contributions to the Whrrl client on both platforms, especially in the mapping features.

Previously, was an SDE working on a broad range of server-side and back-end technologies.
Team Lead, Landing Page Optimization

Amazon.com

(Public Company; AMZN; Internet industry)

November 2004 — January 2007 (2 years 3 months)

Founded the Landing Page Optimization team, which focuses on the first page view in each customer visit. Built the team from scratch: defined the mission and key business metrics, hired and trained the engineers, defined and managed projects, established team software development process.

Before that, was a PM and SDE on the Automated Advertising team, which writes the software that places and manages sponsored links for Amazon products on search engines such as Google, Yahoo, and MSN.
Research Engineer and Business Developer

D. E. Shaw Research and Development, LLC

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Research industry)

June 2001 — October 2004 (3 years 5 months)

Primary project was a venture led by David E. Shaw to build a new supercomputing architecture for modeling and simulation of biomolecules. Coordinated the architectural specification of one subsystem of the core ASIC for this architecture; managed vendor selection and negotiated associated multi-million dollar contracts. Previous projects included discovering and evaluating new business opportunities for D. E. Shaw’s India office.
Research Intern

Akamai Technologies

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; AKAM; Computer Networking industry)

May 2000 — August 2000 (4 months)

Investigated certain aspects of the structure of the Internet; developed algorithms to automatically analyze network structure. Research findings and algorithms became part of architecture of next-generation "mapping" system.
Research Intern

Caltech Center for Advanced Computing Research

(Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Research industry)

May 1998 — August 1999 (1 year 4 months)

Summer '98 and '99. Developed a kernel-space distributed shared memory system for Beowulf architectures.
Undergraduate Researcher

CMU Parallel Data Lab

(Research industry)

September 1997 — May 1999 (1 year 9 months)
High School Intern

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

(Government Agency; Defense & Space industry)

May 1995 — August 1997 (2 years 4 months)

Worked in the high-performance computing department, primarily on the Beowulf project.

Jason Crawford’s Education

Carnegie Mellon University

BS , Computer Science , 1997 — 2001

GPA 3.8, graduated with university honors.
SAT 1590 (1997).
Phi Beta Kappa, inducted Spring 2001.
Teaching assistant for various CS classes.

Activities and Societies:

Objectivist Club, Concert Chorus, Repertory Chorus, Jazz Vocal Ensemble, Scotch 'n' Soda, Fringe