Hi thanks for visiting. I'm Noel Curtis, a technology leader, ex Y-Combinator startup graduate and current CTO at BookMyShow (Big Tree Entertainment). I live in Mumbai, India and you can find details about my professional experience here, feel free to get in touch on LinkedIn.
Rokt: Before BookMyShow I was Head of Engineering at Rokt. I ran a multidisciplinary team across Product, Engineering, Applied ML and Analytics.
At Rokt:
I was part of the Executive Leadership Team.
I grew our US Engineering presence across New York and Seattle.
Ive driven customer acquisition outcomes for some of the largest brands in the world like Apple, Disney and Capital One, across a diverse set of verticals.
Lead a group to build a technology platform that scales to over 5B+ transactions.
Made strategic technology and data decisions to drive outcomes in an environment with stringent privacy and security regulations.
You can find press about my time at Rokt here:
Grubhub: Prior to Rokt I was Head of Consumer Facing Technology at Grubhub. This included Search & Discovery, Subscriptions, Rewards & Offers, Pricing, SEO, SEM, CRM and Experimentation. I was deeply involved in long term technology direction, product development and empowering teams to drive customer growth.
At Grubhub I lead teams to:
Build information retrieval and recommender systems using machine learning, that optimize the funnel experience at Grubhub, and scale to serve billions of requests a day.
Improve diner engagement and retention by building a subscriptions program that accrued millions of active subscribers in just a year after it launched and has partnerships with the likes of Amazon, Lyft, T-Mobile and Instacart.
Enable loyalty and perks integrations with some of the biggest restaurant brands and chains on the Grubhub marketplace like Wendys, Sweetgreen and Gregorys Coffee.
Integrated decision making frameworks to price menus, deliveries and fees optimizing unit economics and business outcomes.
Develop frameworks and processes to communicate to stakeholders, plan resourcing and cultivate and grow individuals.
Set goals, key performance indicators and service level objectives to ensure a high bar of observability on distributed software systems, product and business metrics.
I enjoy giving talks about technology and product development and you can find some recent talks below:
SmartAsset: Prior to Grubhub, I was founding engineer at SmartAsset, where we went through the 2012 Y-Combinator incubator program and emerged to build educational tools to help people navigate life's big financial decisions.
There I:
Built full stack web applications that scaled to millions of users.
Developed and integrated financial models to predict outcomes for loans and large financial purchases.
Prior Experience / Education
Dell/EMC (Senior Software Engineer): 2008 - 2012
Masters in Computer Science (Robotics / AI specialization): University of North Carolina - Charlotte