Jean Sini

Current

Founder, Chief Technology Officer at Untangly, Inc.

Past

Chief Technology Officer at BuzzLogic
Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Activeweave
Senior Director, Software Engineering at Symbol Technologies, Inc.

Director, Software Engineering at Oracle Corporation

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Education

Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI)
Ecole nationale supérieure des Télécommunications

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Industry

Computer Software

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Jean Sini’s Summary

Jean is a proven software entrepreneur, executive, and architect. Put differently, he's a passionate builder.

He's currently Founder and Chief Technology Officer at data integration startup Untangly, Inc. focused on deep web mining.

He sold his previous startup, Activeweave, to Buzzlogic in April 2008, and joined as Chief Technology Officer, heading Buzzlogic's core technical vision and architecture, aimed at targeting relevance and influence across social media.

Prior to running Buzzlogic’s engineering, Jean co-founded Activeweave, Inc. in 2005. As its CTO, he built and scaled its contextual, personalized relevance engine. Jean also held Director and Senior Director of Software Engineering positions at Oracle and Symbol Technologies.

Based in Silicon Valley since 1996, he has honed his leadership and software engineering skills over the last 15 years, building large-scale multi-tiered platforms and managing international engineering teams.

His expertise and interests are primarily focused on the design and development of distributed computing infrastructures and web-scale services.

Jean holds Masters Degrees in Computer Science from Telecom Paris and the Computer Science Laboratories at the Paris University.

Jean Sini’s Specialties:

Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Software Executive, Distributed and Internet Systems, Software Architecture, Software Engineering, Project Management, Web Mining, Data Integration, Internet Scale, Distributed Computing, Knowledge Management, Social Software, Collaboration, Mobile, Wireless, Web 2.0, Object Oriented Design, Programming, Web Architecture, Rich Internet Applications.

Jean Sini’s Experience

Founder, Chief Technology Officer

Untangly, Inc.

(Computer Software industry)

March 2009 — Present (5 months)

Untangly, Inc. is a young, well-funded software startup located in downtown Mountain View, California. We build a system powering large scale data integration and deep web mining.

We’re currently hand-picking a team of outstanding architects and engineers, moved by a shared passion for building amazing software at Internet scale, and excited by the opportunity to build a company and a product from the ground up.

Untangly, Inc. is currently stealth, and goes live in early 2010. To become part our very initial and core DNA, apply now by sending your resume to jobs@untangly.com
Chief Technology Officer

BuzzLogic

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

April 2008 — March 2009 (1 year)

Jean sold Activeweave to BuzzLogic in April 2008; Buzzlogic thus complements its technology to analyze relevance and influence in blogs and social media, to power its ad network using conversation-specific influence and ultimately to improve ad engagement and performance.

At Buzzlogic, Jean heads the company's core technical vision, strategy, and architecture. He also runs Buzzlogic’s engineering team, to develop and deliver a family of search, web analysis, and advertising solutions.

Buzzlogic unlocks the power of conversations and influence, with applications that help players across the social media ecosystem—businesses, online publishers and the bloggers contributing to influential communities— reap the rewards and engage its constituents.
Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer

Activeweave

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

July 2005 — April 2008 (2 years 10 months)

Jean co-founded Activeweave in mid-2005. He co-led its fund-raising, co-created and wrote its patents, and drove its overall vision and strategy.

As CTO, he was directly in charge of architecture, design and implementation. He built, scaled, ran the company and its infrastructure from inception to over 10 million daily hits.

Activeweave makes Stickis and BlogRovR. Both help create a truly participatory web, enabling individuals to share perspective and commentary among their social groups.

BlogRovR, one of Firefox's recommended add-ons, has garnered over 300,000 registered users. It lets you bring your favorite bloggers along as you browse: our personalized, on-the-fly contextual relevance engine fetches stories related to the page you're on, right into the browser, as you go.

Stickis augments the web with your personal and social annotations.

Activeweave, funded by angels and VCs including Esther Dyson and Eric di Benedetto, was acquired in April 2008 by Buzzlogic.
Senior Director, Software Engineering

Symbol Technologies, Inc.

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; SBL; Computer Networking industry)

May 2004 — July 2005 (1 year 3 months)

Mobility Software Division
Director, Software Engineering

Oracle Corporation

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ORCL; Computer Software industry)

October 1996 — May 2004 (7 years 8 months)

Server Technologies Division

Jean Sini’s Education

Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI)

DEA , Computer Systems, Distributed Computing , 1995 — 1996
Ecole nationale supérieure des Télécommunications

MS , Computer Science , 1993 — 1996