Dave Fetterman

Summary

Experience

• Advisor

  Nylas

  June 2015 – Present (11 months)San Francisco Bay Area

  Nylas is building a new platform for email-powered apps, starting with simple REST APIs and infrastructure for developers.

• Advisor

  blispay

  May 2015 – Present (1 year)Baltimore, Maryland Area

  Mobile credit for businesses and consumers.
  

• Advisor

  Playpass Sports

  November 2014 – Present (1 year 6 months)San Francisco Bay Area

  Advisor · November 2014 to present · San Francisco, California
  

• Advisor

  Quizlet

  February 2013 – Present (3 years 3 months)

  Quizlet builds very popular educational software.

• Head of Famous Labs

  Famo.us

  August 2014 – November 2014 (4 months)San Francisco Bay Area

  famo.us builds software frameworks to enable native-level interfaces using web technology.

• VP Engineering

  Famo.us

  August 2013 – August 2014 (1 year 1 month)

  famo.us builds software frameworks to enable native-level interfaces using mobile web technology.

• Advisor

  famo.us

  March 2013 – August 2013 (6 months)

  famo.us builds software frameworks to enable native-level interfaces using mobile web technology.

• Consultant

  Fetterman Software LLC

  2009 – March 2013 (4 years)

  Helping people who ask for it in evaluating their software projects' mobile, development platform, and engineering personnel aspects. Recent work has been with entertainment companies of size 10-ish, 10000-ish, and 100000-ish.

• Engineering Manager, Mobile

  Facebook

  February 2009 – November 2012 (3 years 10 months)

  Engineering Management of Facebook Mobile, overseeing all of m.facebook.com, Facebook for iOS, Facebook for Android, and associated functions (growth, data, performance, developer platform, etc.) across Menlo Park and Seattle offices.

• Engineering Manager, Hiring

  Facebook

  August 2008 – February 2009 (7 months)

  Figuring out how to compete against Google and similar in hiring software engineers. Led engineering hiring evangelism efforts, including course participation, tech talks at Facebook campus, programs like TopCoder, and on-campus university recruiting. Hired ~100 engineers during this time.

• Software Engineer

  Facebook

  January 2006 – August 2008 (2 years 8 months)

  Founder of the Facebook Platform project at Facebook: api.facebook.com, developers.facebook.com, f8. Eventually the team would grow from one guy and one app to hundreds and hundreds of thousands, respectively. For better or worse, this is why your feed has games on it and why you see Facebook buttons everywhere.

• Software Design Engineeer

  Microsoft

  February 2005 – December 2005 (11 months)

  Personally owned (ahem, bug fixed) the entirety of .NET's most core managed namespaces, including System, System.Collections, System.Threading, System.Diagnostics.Process, System.Text.RegularExpressions, System.ServiceProcess, and System.Math. Shipped .NET Framework version 2.0 in late 2005.

• Software Design Engineeer

  Microsoft

  July 2003 – February 2005 (1 year 8 months)

  Project Coriolis: Designed software for small, undisclosed project aimed to re-engineer the .NET engine and associated technologies (IIS / ASP.NET / ADO.NET) for UNIX architectures.

Publications

• Beautiful Architecture

  O'Reilly

  January 2009

  I wrote the chapter on FB platform architecture (the API, FQL, FBML, etc.)

  Authors:

  • Dave Fetterman

Projects

• Facebook for iOS

  Starting June 2009

  Facebook: the most popular application for iOS devices.

  Team members:

  • Dave Fetterman

• Facebook for Android

  Starting September 2009

  Facebook: the second most popular application for Android devices (behind Google Maps, I think).

  Team members:

  • Dave Fetterman

• m.facebook.com

  Starting February 2009

  Facebook's mobile web site

  Team members:

  • Dave Fetterman

Skills

• Software Design
• Engineering Management
• Engineering Recruiting
• Mobile Product Development
• Platform Development
• Product Management
• ASP.NET
• Python
• Start-ups
• Strategy
• Scalability
• Mobile Devices
• Engineering
• Software Development
• Architecture
• See 7+
• .NET
• JavaScript
• Android
• Program Management
• Unix
• Mobile Applications
• Software Engineering
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Education

• Harvard University

  M.S., Computer Science

  2002 – 2003

• Harvard University

  B.A., Applied Mathematics

  1999 – 2003

  Activities and Societies: TF for Applied Math 107 (Graph Theory and Combinatorics), TF for CS50 (Intro to Computer Science), Harvard Glee Club, Harvard Glee Club Lite,