CONVEX - Key Persons
Abhi is a creator at heart who specializes in the production of technical art and content. He has been an early-stage engineer and early-stage DevRel at multiple infrastructure startups and has a background in leading technical marketing initiatives. During his off-time, he is a DJ, music producer, Magic the Gathering Judge, competitive Super Smash Bros. player, and jazz drummer.
Bryan is the Head of Talent at Convex which encompasses all things Recruiting & Talent Acquisition to building a world-class team.
Prior to joining Convex, Bryan spent over 10 years hiring for the early teams at Dropbox, Pinterest, and Plaid scaling from hundreds of employees to becoming pre-IPO ready companies.
Outside of recruiting, Bryan is best known to have a love for good food (pizza and cookies) and mediocre exercise (slow-jogging and barely-powerlifting) to burn the calories away.
Delivering exceptional assistance has always been an essential part of a day's work for Cheree. As Convex's very own Office Manager (and Executive Assistant to two of the Founders), Cheree works behind the scenes to support the team's internal operations relating to office procedures, events, space utilization, and perks to name a few.
Cheree began her career with Convex in 2022 after having already gained 8 years of experience as both an Office Manager and Executive Assistant. Prior to joining Convex, Cheree worked with several other California-based companies over the last decade with an emphasis on Systems Administration, Vendor Management, and Employee Appreciation, ranging from startups to well-established corporations. As our Office Boss Extraordinaire, Cheree brings with her a dedication to fostering an inclusive workplace and a passion for cultivating strong, lasting relationships.
In her spare time, Cheree enjoys spending time with her two children, organizing spaces, road-trips, and overly committing to DIY projects that cause her to reevaluate her life choices in the process of their completion.
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Emma is a software engineer at Convex working primarily on Convex's backend services.
Explore Stack Stack is the Convex developer portal and blog, sharing bright ideas and techniques for building with Convex.
Ian works on Developer Experience at Convex.
He has been a full stack freelancer for companies such as The New York Times, backend engineer and technical lead at Dropbox, mechanical engineer at MindTribe, and iOS engineer back before the term "iOS" was coined.
He loves ideas and ergonomic tools.
Jordan is a software engineer at Convex. Before Convex, he studied at Harvey Mudd College. While in school, he worked on backend infrastructure at various companies including Netflix and Asana. He obsesses over making complex things simple and brings a passion for programming languages.
When he's not coding, he spends most of his time traveling, snowboarding, playing basketball, reading, and hanging out with his friends. He also likes to dabble a bit in poker.
Myoung joins us on a part time basis as she is a fractional CFO for startups and the finance expert in residence for First Round Capital.
Previously, she worked at Notion, MyFitnessPal, and many other companies that were acquired. She manages the finance function at Convex.
Indy Khare He/Him
Nipunn is a software engineer at Convex, where he loves figuring out how to make the developer experience simple, magical, and indispensably useful for customers.
Prior to Convex, Rebecca worked on various platform and infrastructure teams at Dropbox and DoorDash. She contributed to projects ranging from rewriting the document store of the Dropbox search engine to building on the logistics platform that powers the execution of DoorDash deliveries.
She cares deeply about mental health and creating a culture where people feel seen and empowered to be their full selves.
Outside of work, Rebecca loves being in nature and going to as many national parks as possible, learning self-defense at her local dojo, binging anime, and playing with her dog Moxie.
Sujay is Chief Scientist/Cofounder at Convex, where he's still trying to find a way to spend the Science budget on Erlenmeyer flasks. In the meantime, he spends most of his time working with code, designing systems, and dreaming about the best version of everything.
Before Convex, he was a Principal Engineer at Dropbox, where he worked on file synchronization, large object storage with James and Jamie, and the email system. In particular, he was the tech lead for Nucleus, a full rewrite of Dropbox's sync engine in Rust that made file syncing faster, safer, and more hackable than ever. He also did a stint at Microsoft Research, working on a kernel bypass TCP stack that attained 30 Gbps per core and 7µs roundtrip times in the datacenter.
Outside work, his interests range from reading Knuth to curating small food goods.
Tom is a software engineer at Convex, what fun! He's interested in empowering programmers of all stripes with developer tools, from reactive backends to clear mental models to the hottest new spreadsheet formulas.
Tom previously worked on a platform for reactive documents and visualizations at Observable and on a variety of projects at Dropbox including migrating the desktop client to browser-based UI.
He's taught compiler and computer architecture courses and facilitated at the Recurse Center primarily by goading people into writing BitTorrent clients. He has a special place in his heart for REPLs and is going to switch from vim to VSCode any day now.
Job Titles:
- Head of Community and Events
Wayne is the Head of Community and Events at Convex with the Developer Experience team.
Previous to Convex, Wayne has led the community at early-stage startups and organized tech conferences around the world.
Outside of his professional life, Wayne is passionate about blending photography with his love for motorcycle adventures.