Paul Lo
M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University. Co-Founder and Chief Architect of E-Steam. Director of Engineering and Principal Architect at Yahoo!. Founder of OfferCal.
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Work status: | Employed Full-Time |
| Industries: | Computing, Education, Entertainment, Financial, Food and Drink, Gaming, Health, Information Technology, Internet, Lifestyle, Media, Real Estate, Retail, Sports, Travel |
| Skills: | AJAX, C/C++, Databases, Engineering, Facebook platform, HTML / CSS, Java, Javascript, Languages and Platforms, Perl, PHP, Software Engineering, SQL, Web Development, Windows applications |
| Next step: | I am currently looking for a partner in the Vacation, Travel, Leisure, E-Commerce, Search, and Advertising space to help on the marketing strategy and business development. We also need superstar software developers who can build high performance, scalable systems and consumer facing applications in this domain, as well as E-Commerce, Online Advertising, and Data Mining experts. We are also looking for a current Stanford student to join the Stanford E-Challenge competition. |
| Groups: | E-Challenge Competition 2009, [INACTIVE] BASES E-Challenge 2010 |
| Interested in: | Advising startups, Brainstorming, Career advice, Consulting opportunities, Creating a group, Employment opportunities, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding engineers, Finding experts, Finding hot stories, Finding mentors, Finding team mates, Getting press, Giving back, Growing my group, Helping friends, Helping members of my groups, Investing in projects, Joining a startup, Learning about entrepreneurship, Meeting new people, Mentoring, Offering Expertise, Participating in a competition, Partnering with other groups, Patenting my idea, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Providing services to startups, Raising money, Receiving feedback, Recruiting, Recruiting for my startup, Shadowing, Sharing my projects, Starting a company, Supporting my investments, Trading services |
| Tags: | bay area, cloud computing, consumer internet, cto, E-Commerce, entertainment, entrepreneur, executive, facebook, food, founder, Gaming, lifestyle, marketing, marketplace, new ideas, open web, saas, san francisco, semantic web, shopping, silicon valley, social networking, software, startup, Travel, Venture Capital, virtual goods, web 2.0 |
| Schools: | Stanford University |
FEATURED STARTUP
OfferCal
OfferCal
Online personal offer exchange platform for the vacation, leisure, lifestyle, and entertainment industry.
- Startup type: Company
- Status: Active
- Stage: Prototyping
FULL BIO
Paul has a M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University with extensive background in web technologies, software development, data mining, & engineering management. He has served as co-founder and chief architect at E-Steam, inc. and later as director of engineering and principal architect at Yahoo!. Paul has extensive connections in the software & web industries. He is also the key developer and original inventor of the personalized offer recommendation framework behind OfferCal, an online offer exchange platform for the vacation, leisure, lifestyle, and entertainment industry.
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | OfferCal |
| Position: | Founder |
| Time period: | November 2009 - Present |
| Description: | Founded and developed the core technology and some of the key business methods behind OfferCal, an online personal offer exchange platform for the vacation, leisure, and entertainment industry, currently in stealth mode. |
| Employer: | Yahoo!, inc. |
| Position: | Technology Strategist |
| Time period: | November 2007 - Present |
| Description: | Technology strategist for Yahoo!'s Open Strategy, responsible for evaluating acquisitions/partnerships, long-term architecture and product strategy, cross-architecture initiatives: social platform, application platform, web services, network aggregation, etc. |
| Employer: | Yahoo!, inc. |
| Position: | Director of Engineering |
| Time period: | May 2006 - Present |
| Description: | Head of Engineering for the Identity Management Engineering team at Yahoo!, overseeing 2 – 3 sub-divisions responsible for the Yahoo! Membership Web Services and all user flows/applications covering registration, authentication, account information, service provisioning, account lifecycle management, and account recovery for Yahoo!. Team size grew from 12 to 20. |
| Employer: | Yahoo!, inc. |
| Position: | Senior Engineering Manager, Principal Architect |
| Time period: | May 2005 - May 2006 |
| Employer: | Yahoo!, inc. |
| Position: | Engineering Manager / Senior Software Engineer |
| Time period: | August 2004 - May 2005 |
| Employer: | Yahoo!, inc. |
| Position: | Senior Software Engineer |
| Time period: | December 2002 - August 2004 |
| Employer: | Yahoo!, inc. |
| Position: | Lead Software Developer |
| Time period: | December 2001 - December 2002 |
| Employer: | E-Steam, inc. |
| Position: | Co-Founder, Chief Architect |
| Time period: | August 2000 - November 2001 |
| Description: | Co-founded and developed the core technology for E-Steam, a data mining startup that integrated predictive modeling technologies with businesses in several industries. |
EDUCATION
| University: | Stanford University |
| Degree: | Computer Science, MSc |
