I lead product development and product strategy for Twitter's advertising platform.
Formerly: product manager for Twitter's advertiser-facing data products, and before that tech lead of Twitter analytics, where I was the first member of the team and built much of our original analytics stack.
Background: software/network/information engineer trained in physics, mathematics, and computer science, with an emphasis on large datasets and distributed computing (Hadoop, Pig, etc).
SVP Product @ Responsible for product, product marketing, and design at Twitter. Twitter is an incredible product that reaches every corner of the Earth and touches hundreds of millions of lives every day. I get to work with an awesome team—if you'd like to join us, DM me! From February 2015 to Present (11 months) VP Product @ Responsible for product and design at Twitter. Twitter is an incredible product that reaches every corner of the Earth and touches hundreds of millions of lives every day. I get to work with an awesome team—if you'd like to join us, DM me! From October 2014 to February 2015 (5 months) VP of Product, Revenue @ Leading a fantastic team of product managers, working with an outstanding group of engineers and designers, creating and refining Twitter's advertising platform.
We're building a complicated system from scratch, and it's a lot of fun. We're hiring data scientists, systems engineers, web and mobile developers, and product managers. Connect with me here or email me (first initials at twitter.com) if interested! From July 2013 to October 2014 (1 year 4 months) San Francisco Bay AreaSenior Director of Product, Revenue @ Leading a fantastic team of product managers, working with an outstanding group of engineers and designers, creating and refining Twitter's advertising platform. From January 2013 to July 2013 (7 months) San Francisco Bay AreaDirector of Product, Revenue @ Leading a fantastic team of product managers, working with an outstanding group of engineers and designers, creating and refining Twitter's advertising platform. From July 2012 to January 2013 (7 months) San Francisco Bay AreaProduct Lead, Revenue @ Monetization products at Twitter. From December 2010 to July 2012 (1 year 8 months) Engineering Lead, Analytics @ Managing and mining big data at Twitter. From May 2009 to December 2010 (1 year 8 months) Engineering Lead, Analytics @ Bridging the gap between the web and the desktop with intuitive and powerful hardware-accelerated interfaces. Wrote client-side C++ for our multithreaded, hardware accelerated browser plugin, wrote backend code in Java and Python. Founded and led the analytics team last 12 months, created company-wide analytics platform on top of Hadoop, Apache Pig, and Google Protocol Buffers. From November 2007 to May 2009 (1 year 7 months) Scientist/Engineer @ From October 2006 to November 2007 (1 year 2 months) Physicist @ From June 2003 to August 2003 (3 months) Software Engineer @ From June 2002 to August 2002 (3 months) Software Engineer @ From June 2001 to August 2001 (3 months)
MS, Physics @ Stanford University From 2005 to 2006 BA, summa cum laude, Physics and Mathematics @ Harvard University From 2001 to 2005 Inglemoor High School From 1998 to 2001 Kevin Weil is skilled in: Analytics, Product Management, Programming, Hadoop, Python, Distributed Systems, Java, C++, Apache, Big Data, Mobile Applications, Perl, Mobile Devices, Software Engineering, Cloud Computing
Websites:
http://www.twitter.com/kevinweil