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title: Developed local yelp-like app
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lang: en
date: 2013-09-01T12:00:00.000Z
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**stealth startup** · Chief Technology Officer

for ~2 years in early 2010s

## What I did

- Made a version of Yelp for the local market
- Designed the architecture and framework; managed developers, Ops, UX and QA specialists as hands-on CTO
- Set up infrastructure and CI/CD

## What I achieved

- Launched the project
- Moved on

## What I learned

- Big data makes you do wild things: I once had 7 versions of the same data structure in one collection