Zachary Goldberg, Product Manager in Los Angeles, United States

Zachary Goldberg

Product Manager

Location
Los Angeles, United States
Toptal Member Since
October 10, 2018

Zach Goldberg is an experienced technical entrepreneur, having recently served as the CTO of Lottery.com, an entrepreneur in residence at Tencent, the CEO/CTO of three of his own startups, and many others. Zach is passionate about using technology to improve the human condition, and has served as a consultant to over a dozen tech startups. Zach also has a private pilot's license, races sports cars, and is an expert at Kerbal Space Program.

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Project Highlights

Lottery.com Rebrand
Rebuilt the tech stack and team from AutoLotto to Lottery.com, including a shift in culture and development of internal org.

Expertise

AgileBitcoinEthereumKanbanLeadershipProduct ManagementTeam BuildingTeam Management

Education

Bachelor's Degree
University of Pennsylvania

Select Certifications

Private Pilot
FAA

Work Experience

2016 - PRESENT

Chief Technology Officer

Lottery.com
  • Led a team of 20.
  • Transitioned to a new brand.
  • Rebuilt the entire tech stack.
  • Built the hiring process and managed team culture.
  • Built the product and engineering organization structure.
2016 - 2016

Engineer | Engineering Manager

OBeN
  • Managed a technical project with a client and an outsourced developer.
  • Built a demo app to win a deal with a client.
  • Managed a remote developer.
  • Built a WeChat API.
2016 - 2016

AWS, React

Foodida
  • Optimized the client's cloud infrastructure.
  • Built an HTML5 app version of the client's product.
  • Worked with React and HTML5.
  • Maintained and fostered client relationships and performed consultancy management.
2015 - 2016

Engineering Consultant

MW Delivery
  • Updated and rebuilt Android and iOS apps.
  • Migrated a production web app to a new platform.
  • Revamped a web platform by adding many new features.
  • Provided technical consulting and advising for the company, including IT-related tasks (mail migration, DNS migrations, etc.).
2014 - 2015

Co-founder | CTO

Sticks and Brains
  • Built the Erlang back-end for a mobile messaging app.
  • Developed the Android client for the messaging app.
  • Experimented and developed new features based on Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) technology.
  • Updated and maintained the iOS app.
2013 - 2014

Entrepeneur in Residence/Product Manager

Tencent
  • Developed internal processes for analyzing customer data.
  • Created new product features (translation).
  • Developed and iterated a product roadmap.
  • Planned international expansion and exposure plans for products.
  • Worked with senior management and VPs for product planning.
  • Implemented A/B testing as a process and core competency of the product team.
2011 - 2013

Co-founder | CEO | CTO

ZenReach
  • Carefully selected and interviewed a team of approximately 15 people.
  • Developed an initial Android app and web framework.
  • Built an internal tool for testing company software on hundreds of embedded devices.
  • Managed the teams and culture.
  • Developed and tested a number of business models.
  • Raised a series seed and series A funding.
2010 - 2012

Product Manager

Google
  • Led the SRE and DevOps team for a product with eight figures in yearly revenue.
  • Worked as a PM in advertising and cloud computing.
  • Developed internal product dashboards in Google's codebase.
  • Coordinated multiple teams across the country.
  • Worked with sales and marketing to plan new product launches.
2008 - 2010

Lead Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Invite Media
  • Developed, as an early engineer, a demand-side platform for the real-time bidding of display advertising.
  • Contributed to the build of infrastructure automation and operations.
  • Involved with the server memory and performance profiling.
  • Developed the operational alerting management.
  • Implemented load balancing and worked on the global scaling of the infrastructure.

Project History

Lottery.com Rebrand

Rebuilt the tech stack and team from AutoLotto to Lottery.com, including a shift in culture and development of internal org.

Rebuilt the entire tech stack and team from AutoLotto to Lottery.com, including a shift in company culture and the development of internal organizational structures.

Education

2006 - 2010

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science and Engineering

University of Pennsylvania - Philadelphia, PA ,USA

Certifications

SEPTEMBER 2018 - PRESENT

Private Pilot

FAA