the quixey team
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MEET THE QUIXEY TEAM
We strive for an environment of creativity and
positive energy. We put in every effort to make
our office a fun, interactive, and innovative
workplace. Equality, transparency and mutual
respect for the individual, team and company are
core to our cultural values.
Akshay DayalSenior Build and Release Engineer
Akshay, originally from India, has worked in
Engineering a Leica, Yahoo, Sun, Twitter and
Google. He's a graduate of the Georgia
Institute of Technology.
•Software Engineer @ Google
•Software Engineer - Release @ Twitter
•Release Engineer @ Sun Microsystems
•Sr. Build & Automation Release Engineer @
Yahoo
•Software Engineer @ Leica
Eric GloverFellow
Eric has been involved with Quixey from
very early on, first as an advisor, later
joining the team full time as Engineering
Fellow. He leads the Science team,
which is responsible for short and
medium-term projects, as well as
relevance and advertising algorithms.
•Principal Scientist, SearchMe
•Principal Scientist, Ask.com
Jaeik has an impressive background in Product
Operations, having worked in operations/service
roles at multiple companies. He is known for his
adeptness at putting out fires and maintaining
smooth system operations in the event of a crisis.
•Service Engineering Manager, Yahoo! Mail
•System Administrator, Scios/Johnson & Johnson
•System Administrator, Postini
•System Administrator, Incyte Genomics
Jaeik SongDirector of Product Operations
Leigh KlotzSystem Architect
Leigh holds numerous software patents and is
proud to have developed Logo for the Apple II and
Commodore 64 computers. He has also chaired
the W3C Standard Committee and been on the
research staff of the MIT Lab for Computer
Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
•Author/Editor, ARRL
•Senior Software Architect, Xerox
•Startups: Terrapin (Cambridge), LES (Tokyo)
Jeff FanPrincipal Designer
Jeff created UC Berkeley's first graphic design
student organization, which he grew from 7
members to 100+ active members. Upon
graduating, he founded a design agency,
Innovative Design Studio. It was here that
Quixey found Jeff, initially contracting him to
redesign quixey.com, and eventually hiring
him to head design.
Paresh VakhariyaDirector of O&O and UX
Paresh has led major product
enhancements and integrations into
existing products and conducted Digital
Goods User Experience research and
design in seven countries around the
world.
•Sr. Product Manager, PayPal - Digital
Wallet Coupons
•User Research, eBay
•User Research, Intel
Tomer KaftanSoftware Engineering Intern
Liron recognized Tomer Kaftan’s talent at
an early age and quickly began to mentor
him. Over the past two years, Tomer has
excelled as an engineer, rivaling PhD’s in
Search in his abilities. After graduating
from UC Berkeley at age 19, he will join
Quixey as a full time employee.