About Us | Promoted

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 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.

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.

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.

Matt Stults

Engineer

Matt has been writing software and leading engineering teams for over 15 years. At Google, Matt led the Google Partners product and initiatives across Google Ads and Search Ads 360. Prior to that, he was the tech lead for NCSoft's City of Heroes where he led its engineering team. Matt's interests include combining programming, art, and entertainment, and his projects include interactive fine art for museums, an epidemic disease simulator, and several free-to-play games.

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 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.

Darrow Hartman

Intern

Darrow is a 1st year student at Stanford University, hailing from Seattle, WA. He is currently gaining practical experience as a software engineering intern at Promoted, where he is honing his skills in building software solutions. Prior to that, Darrow showcased his data science skills as an intern at illume, where he created health analytics dashboards and devised effective user-growth plans. Darrow is experienced in programming languages such as Python, JavaScript, Java, and C++

Yash Narayan

Software Engineering Intern

Yash Narayan, a talented undergraduate at Stanford, is pursuing a CS degree with a passion for various fields, including artificial intelligence, electrical engineering, and computer systems. Driven by his engineering spirit, Yash finds joy in creating and materializing his ideas. Remarkably, he has been actively participating in Hackathons since the age of 10, an experience that has earned him the title of a six-time Hackathon winner.
Currently, Yash is contributing his skills as a software engineering intern, working on the development of Promoted’s generative AI applications. His dedication and enthusiasm for building innovative solutions showcase his potential as a promising engineer.