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{
  "answers": [
    {
      "question": "How did you first hear about Flexport?",
      "answer": "Career Platform (LinkedIn, Glassdoor, BuiltIn, etc.)"
    },
    {
      "question": "Will you now or in the future require Flexport to commence (\"sponsor\") an immigration case in order to employ you (for example, H-1B or other employment-based immigration case)? This is sometimes called \"sponsorship\" for an employment-based visa status.",
      "answer": "No \u2014 I am authorized to work in the United States and do not require employer sponsorship now or in the future."
    },
    {
      "question": "Are you authorized to work lawfully in the United States for Flexport?",
      "answer": "Yes \u2014 I am fully authorized to work lawfully in the United States without restriction."
    },
    {
      "question": "Have you previously been employed by Flexport or any of its entities; or by an agency representing Flexport?",
      "answer": "No \u2014 I have not previously been employed by Flexport or any of its entities, nor by an agency representing Flexport."
    },
    {
      "question": "Current / Most Recent Company",
      "answer": "Streamio AI / Fintellect AI"
    },
    {
      "question": "Current / Most Recent Title",
      "answer": "Founder & CEO"
    },
    {
      "question": "This role is based in San Francisco, CA or Bellevue, WA with a in-office work schedule. Are you located in or willing to relocate to either of these areas?",
      "answer": "Yes \u2014 I am based in Oakland, CA, which is in the San Francisco Bay Area, and am fully available to work on-site in San Francisco."
    },
    {
      "question": "Briefly describe a product or feature you owned that required coordinating between multiple distinct user groups (e.g., buyers/sellers, drivers/riders, or automated service providers). ",
      "answer": "At Intuit, I owned the ICE (Intuit Commerce Engine) Self-Service platform, which served three distinct user groups simultaneously: internal platform engineers who maintained the infrastructure, product developers across ~20 mobile apps and 30+ SKUs who consumed the platform to build features, and business stakeholders who needed visibility into service health and costs. Coordinating across these groups required me to build a DevPortal that surfaced GitOps configuration and an ICE Playground for developer self-service, while also maintaining a roadmap that balanced developer onboarding speed (reduced from 2\u20133 weeks to minutes in pre-prod) against platform reliability at scale (675M+ engagements in FY23, 50K TPS). I used SQL and BigQuery telemetry to identify friction points specific to each user group and sequenced investments accordingly \u2014 for example, the MSaaS Drift Detection program addressed platform engineers' reliability concerns while the SDK Starter Kits directly unblocked product developers. The result was 275% YoY growth in ICE engagements and $1M+ in projected opex savings, outcomes that required all three groups moving in the same direction."
    }
  ],
  "skipped": [
    "First Name",
    "Last Name",
    "Email",
    "Phone",
    "Resume/CV",
    "LinkedIn Profile",
    "Let us know which specific channel/event/medium/etc you heard about us:"
  ]
}