Brad Hefta-Gaub

- 2023-present: Artificer Innovations, LLC, Fractional CTO & Strategic Advisor - Advising engineering leaders and executive teams at small product companies on building with agents inside a real software process, rather than treating AI as autocomplete. - Working from clear specs, with review gates, automated testing, and observability agents can use, and holding AI-generated work to the same standard as human-written code. - Building and shipping production software on a shared stack with a small agent team I run myself, so the practice stays grounded in current tools rather than theory. - Providing strategic direction on product development, technology, and business operations to executive teams in startup environments. - Designing engineering team structures, driving recruitment, and leading talent management across multiple ventures. - 2021-2023: 98point6, Senior Vice President, Product Engineering - Recruited by the CEO and CTO during rapid growth to raise delivery performance through improved culture and process. - Turned around a struggling engineering organization that had missed SLAs for six consecutive quarters, establishing tracking and accountability that produced 100% SLA attainment in five of the following six quarters. - Led development of a healthcare platform using machine learning, expert systems, HL7 FHIR, and AWS to expand what practitioners could do and improve the patient experience. - Implemented security practices ensuring HIPAA and SOC 2 compliance for protected health data. - Led an organization of more than 100 engineers. - Led technical due diligence and negotiated a multi-year platform licensing agreement during a corporate restructuring and divestiture. - 2013-2020: High Fidelity, Chief Technology Officer - Joined as an early engineer, responsible for building the majority of the real-time streaming server and networking stack for an open-source, shared virtual reality platform. - Designed and developed the spatial database powering a massive virtual world. - Transitioned to CTO role, overseeing engineering management and providing technical direction during the company's expansion from six to over one hundred employees. - Member of leadership team raising $68m in B through D venture rounds. - 2010-2012: Korrio, Chief Technology Officer - Collaborated closely with the founder/CEO as the first employee to shape product vision and technical strategy. - Led technical operations and development of a youth sports organization and social media platform, benefiting parents, players, and teams. - Member of leadership team raising $8m in A and B venture rounds. - 2007-2010: Konamoxt, Co-Founder/CEO - Founded and led Konamoxt, an early social network for everyday athletes. - Pioneered a unique platform integrating fitness journals, blog posts, and health content. - Achieved significant consumer adoption with several hundred thousand active accounts. - Successfully transitioned the business to focus on corporate wellness, securing partnerships with Fortune 500 companies, including Starbucks and Brooks Running. - 2005-2006: Revenue Science, Senior Vice President Media Operations - Managed the P&L responsibility for a premium portfolio of businesses, collaborating with influential partners such as AOL, Edmunds.com, Financial Times, Jumpstart Automotive Media, Kelly Blue Book, and Reuters. - 2003-2005: Revenue Science, CTO & Senior Vice President Engineering - Led the development of the industry's first large-scale behavioral targeting platform, processing over 1 billion data points daily. - Pioneered the commercial use of pixel-based technology for web traffic tracking, revolutionizing online advertising analytics. - Spearheaded the early proprietary implementation of NoSQL-based datastores for enhanced data processing efficiency. - Member of leadership team raising $36m in D and E venture rounds. - 1995-2003: RealNetworks, Vice President Software Products - Joined as the 20th employee and contributed to the growth of the company to over 1500 employees and its IPO. - As VP, led a team of over 200 engineers in the Media Systems Division. - Managed the development of the core multimedia client/server platform that formed the foundation of RealNetworks' streaming media technology. - As a Senior Developer, implemented the first commercially available browser plugin for both Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer. - 1988-1995: Asymetrix, Development Manager - Joined as an IT technician while completing a B.S. in Computer Science at the University of Washington, progressing to Development Manager.