The requested bio ended with the Ironman.
I was Reonomy's CTO, with about a decade of experience leading technology organizations through growth. Before this, I had led global technology operations and core systems and data-engineering teams at Shutterstock, from the early-stage years through the IPO.
That sentence compressed a lot. At Shutterstock, the work had moved across digital content, ecommerce, infrastructure, storage, search, and the people needed to run all of it. I had left for Reonomy earlier that year, where the product and organization were being built at the same time.
Reonomy was exactly that kind of place.
We were working with commercial real-estate data. Raw property data would get easier to obtain over time. The valuable part was turning it into useful intelligence: cleaning open data, connecting it, and using scoring, algorithms, and heuristics to help people understand properties and markets.
That required more than an engineering team. Real-estate researchers and analysts worked beside product, design, engineering, and data. The mix was part of the company, not support around the edges.
The bio said I was passionate about building scalable teams and data services. It also said I was an avid endurance athlete and an Ironman finisher.
That final line belonged there. Training was not separate from the person showing up at the startup. It was in the calendar, in the company run club, and occasionally in the meeting room when I arrived in run gear. In a paragraph about work, it still fit.
CTO, infrastructure builder, data person, Ironman finisher. The bio was short, but the combination felt accurate.