Before Facebook, he worked at Yahoo on search technology including the Web Crawler and Hosted Vertical Crawler. His focus has been scaling both storage and compute resources across thousands of nodes and tens of thousands of disks. He’s been involved with many startups in NYC including Metrobeat/Citysearch and CityRealty. He graduated with a BS EE from Columbia University’s School of Engineering and Applied Science, before becoming CEO of his first startup, Mediabridge Infosystems.