I am excited to be the Chief Technology Officer at Electronic Arts.
Previously, I was the Vice President of the Marketplace Technology, Science and Data organization at eBay. As leader of this over 1300 person globally distributed organization, I got to help enable commerce -- delighting buyers, helping sellers make a living which often is what they support their families on -- and making the world a smaller place. I ran the end to end services platform that powers eBay across all devices and around the world.
My goal is simple: to create services that makes people's lives better. I was very fortunate to spend 20 years working on amazing projects at Microsoft. My years on Search (5), MSN (5) and Excel (7) all let me learn how to create huge-scale services and software from a very unique vantage point. Yes -- ask me about PivotTables! I focused on leading teams to develop software to meet 100's of millions of users needs. My years in services has opened my eyes to the powerful combination of software with huge and increasingly cheap hardware and the amazing information and social phenomenon that is the web, which is in the process of becoming a society-changing technology right up there with the invention of writing, paper, the printing press and the telephone.
After being part of several start-ups within Microsoft I have also experienced first hand starting up a company from scratch. At CrowdEye, I had the pleasure of working to create an early twitter search engine that did things nobody else did. Real-time search is a blast -- and putting on filters like location and sentiment make it more so. At CrowdEye, we also spent over a year pivoting to work on automated trading system which I still work on.
Specialties: Commerce. Search. Large scale, distributed web services. Data-driven development. Leading large teams to ship high quality releases. Globally distributed services. Services platforms that power both mobile and web.
Chief Technology Officer @ From July 2014 to Present (1 year 6 months) CEO and co-Founder, Algorithmic Trader @ CrowdEye -- What all the Twitter is about
Real time … Social … Search …
That’s what those of us at CrowdEye are obsessed with. The internet has been evolving for years into a place where information flows quicker and quicker. Now it is becoming increasingly possible to tap into that stream of bits and bytes and use it to draw conclusions and make informed decisions based on the "wisdom of the crowds". From September 2008 to Present (7 years 4 months) Vice President Marketplaces Technology, Science and Data @ I was the Vice President of the Marketplace Technology, Science and Data organization at eBay. As leader of this over 1300 person globally distributed organization, I got to help enable commerce -- delighting buyers, helping sellers make a living which often is what they support their families on -- and making the world a smaller place.
I ran the end to end services platform that powers eBay across all devices and around the world.
Checkout, Search, Shipping, Trust, Seller Tools, Geo Expansion, Structured Data, Marketing Technologies, and more -- super fun stuff!!! I was also the GM of the eBay Seattle office -- which has turned into an amazing office full of truly inspirational people, and the executive sponsor for our growing presences in India and Israel. Managing geo-distributed product and technology groups is one of my passions. I have also been the champion for growing our customer focus at the company through an initiative called "Rapid Response". As part of that effort, I have become a Top Rated Seller on eBay. From November 2011 to June 2014 (2 years 8 months) General Manager, Director of Development, Founder - Internet Search (aka Bing, MSN Search) @ I founded, built and led the engineering and product team that builds Search at Microsoft. That includes end-to-end web search, image search, video search, news search, and lots more.
We built the Search engine from the ground up, and worked on advancing the state of the art in all aspects of search and super scale services. That includes deep platform components that are helping Microsoft scale its productivity dramatically in the future both in search and in Azure, right down to shaving 30 ms off the download time of a search results page and analyzing the user impact and producing a new way to think about image search UI. AutoPilot and Cosmos were two infrastructure automation and data crunching technologies that I am very proud of.
Search is at the intersection of Microsoft Research, Advertising, Distributed computing and more. I count myself lucky to have played such a central role in Microsoft's transition into large-scale services. From January 2003 to September 2008 (5 years 9 months) Greater Seattle AreaProduct Unit Manager @ As General Manager in charge of MSN.com and the content platform underlying all of MSN, I was able to focus on the heart of Microsoft's online business.
As Product Unit Manager of MSN MoneyCentral, I led the business and technology around Microsoft's personal finance strategy on the web. From 1998 to 2000 (2 years) Development Manager, MSN MoneyCentral @ As the first employee on MSN MoneyCentral, I was able to experience a start-up within Microsoft. We pushed the limits on the types of services that could be created on the web in this time period. I helped us create award-winning finance software including our: portfolio manager and stock screener. From 1995 to 1997 (2 years) Software Development Eng Lead @ As development lead on Microsoft Excel, I created many features as part of Microsoft Excel versions 3, 4, 95. Those features include: PivotTables, AutoFormat, AutoFilter and rich text annotations.
Even 20 years years later I love getting hugs for people who love PivotTables :-) From 1991 to 1995 (4 years)
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Molecular Biology @ Princeton University From 1984 to 1988 Ken Moss is skilled in: Big Data, Scalability, Distributed Systems, Cloud Computing, AJAX, Product Management, Commerce, Software Development, Start-ups, Web Services, Algorithms, E-commerce, Agile Methodologies, Analytics, Strategy