Our Team
We are ads engineers from Meta and Google, and we've built this before together. Questions? Email Andrew at ayates@promoted.ai.
Andrew Yates
Chief Executive Officer
Andrew Yates
Chief Executive Officer
Andrew Yates formerly led ads ranking, auction, and marketplace engineering and research teams at Facebook and Pinterest. He specializes in designing billion-dollar content marketplaces that maximize long-term revenue while protecting both seller and user experiences. Andrew has published over a dozen patents in online advertising optimization.
Dan Hill
Chief Technology Officer
Dan Hill
Chief Technology Officer
Dan Hill led ads management engineering teams at Google and Pinterest for over a decade. He specializes in designing and building interfaces for advertisers to manage and optimize their ads. At Google, his projects included Google Ads Opportunity Center and Google Search Ads 360 (formerly DoubleClick Search), which increased Google’s market capitalization by billions of dollars. After Google, Dan joined Pinterest as the Head of Ads Manager Engineering responsible for ads UI, API, reporting, and billing.
Jun Sun
ML Engineer
Jun was a founding member of Facebook Marketplace, where he contributed to their personalized recommendation system. Later he initiated the marketplace integrity team and led the modeling team responsible for auto-detecting policy violation contents. After Facebook, Jun joined Strava as their first Machine Learning Engineer and built a generalized ML platform to power applications of PYMK, notifications, and feed. Jun obtained his Ph.D. from NUS, where he specialized in Natural Language Processing and Machine Translation.
Angela Chang
Head of Operations
Angela Chang
Head of Operations
Angela has been in sales, onboarding, operations, and project management for 10+ years. Previously, she led Carta operations, and prior to Carta, she was a top sales manager at various startups.
James Hill
Engineer
James Hill was formerly a senior software engineer at Google for 5+ years working across Display & Video 360 (formerly DoubleClick Bid Manager) leading multiple teams including the BigQuery’s vectorized runtime. He specializes in high-performance C++.
Elsa Birch-Morgan
Engineer
Elsa Birch-Morgan
Engineer
Elsa was recently the engineering lead for unifying cloud infrastructure cost and usage data at Pinterest, having earlier established analytic datasets and observability for their SMB ads interfaces. She specializes in organization and quality of datasets engineers need to maintain, improve, and communicate about their complex systems. Elsa has also consulted for failure analysis and litigation, and holds a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Stanford for simulations of metabolic and viral infection processes.
Nawaf Alhumaid
Engineer
Nawaf was formerly the Head of Data & Analytics at Zid “SaaS e-commerce platform for online stores”. He’s built and led an outstanding data team to success and contributed his experience building a self-service data platform and real-time customer-facing analytics. He is passionate about building data products to guide the decision-making processes and create impactful results. Recently he’s earned his M.S. in Data Science at Drexel University.
Xingcan Cui
Engineer
Xingcan Cui is a committer of the Apache Flink project. He has been working on Big data management, especially distributed stream processing for 10+ years. Formerly at Wealthsimple, he was in charge of the Flink infrastructure and led the development of streaming applications such as Oracle/Postgres CDC and data-lake ingestion pipelines. Before joining industry, he was a Postdoc at York University.
Kevin Grandon
Engineer
Kevin Grandon is an engineer who’s passionate about web technologies and developer productivity. As a Staff Engineer at Uber, Kevin owned the Continuous Integration system for the entire company and contributed to the web platform team. As a tech lead at Pinterest, he contributed to many web projects and libraries and implemented their next generation CI system. At Mozilla he architected many parts of Firefox OS, their mobile operating system, and to the JS standard through TC39.
Steven Hill
Software Engineer
Steven Hill
Software Engineer
Steven, a senior backend engineer with over four years of experience primarily within the Google Cloud Platform, previously served as a committed member of the Containers team. He specialized in Serverless technologies, including Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, and Google App Engine, with a strong emphasis on refining the container execution environment and image filesystem.
Vlad Artamonov
Site Reliability Engineer (part-time)
Vlad Artamonov
Site Reliability Engineer (part-time)
Vlad has over 15 years of industry experience in Site Reliability Engineering and Systems Administration. At Facebook, Vlad improved the efficiency, scalability, and reliability of ads services. At Amazon, he hardened EC2 and extended IAM. Most recently, at Cockroach Labs, he launched Database-as-a-service for Cockroach DB.
Scott McMaster
Engineer (part-time)
Scott McMaster
Engineer (part-time)
Scott has over 25 years of industry experience in databases, advertising, and cloud computing at companies including Microsoft and Google. He was the founding engineer and manager for ads engineering at Grab and most recently ran the team responsible for campaign management and reporting at Twitter. Scott earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Maryland, doing work in software testing and program analysis.
