Dav Yaginuma
Education
East Carolina University
B.S., Computer Science - 1994-01-01Work Experience
Apple Inc
Current
Apple Inc
Unchained Logistics
2018-05-01 - 2021-12-01
Unchained Logistics
Magic Instruments, Inc.
2016-01-01 - 2020-02-01
Magic Instruments, Inc.
Shyp
2015-09-01 - 2018-03-01
Shyp
Freelance
2015-06-01 - 2015-09-01
Freelance
Live Nation Entertainment
2013-11-01 - 2015-06-01
Live Nation Entertainment
10x Management
2013-07-01 - 2013-11-01
10x Management
Meexo
2011-03-01 - 2013-07-01
Meexo
Incredible Labs
2013-02-01 - 2013-06-01
Incredible Labs
Lumos Labs (Lumosity)
2008-02-01 - 2011-03-01
Lumos Labs (Lumosity)
Skills
Summary
- Three decades of experience, primarily in startups, years 0-5. Often leading the engineering and leading or contributing on product direction as well. - Have been a founder 3 times as CEO or CTO, raising ~$4M. Have contributed to MVP stage development dozens of times as an employee, founder or consultant. - Particularly skilled at MVP building, then transforming early stage engineering code and teams to scalable and maintainable code quality and development practices. - Pick up new languages easily. Extensive work experience with Ruby, Objective-C, Javascript & Java, also have occasionally employed Dart (Flutter), Go, Swift, Kotlin, C/C++, Python, C# (Unity), Elixir, Prolog. - Particularly interested in working with diverse teams and leadership. If your company fits that profile, please mention it in any outreach. Career Highlights: - In the first year of the iOS app store, created an iOS app that logged 10+ million downloads and reached #1 free app in the AppStore and for years ranked in the top 100 highest grossing apps. - At a company backed by top VCs (Kleiner Perkins, Homebrew, etc), began directing mobile engineering and ended running all of product and engineering. - Have led teams of up to 40 engineers, at Director or VP level, for companies with valuation in the 100Ms. - Two co-founded startups ending in acquisition. - Part of the early team at Pivotal Labs, perhaps the best regarded Agile Development (extreme programming) consultancy operating out of the bay area and was represented by 10x Management, an agent-based contract firm for A-list tech talent. - TechCrunch Disrupt 2011 finalist, SXSW 2012 Accelerator finalist.
