Micah Jaffe

I joined Autodesk's Construction Cloud (ACC) to lead engineering in their pre-construction planning software. My first two years at Autodesk were focused on rebuilding teams (post M&A), integrating the legacy software and technology into the new construction cloud platform, and improving our stances on security and devops/SRE. Currently focused on further integrating and growing the influence and capabilities of the Builders Network and TradeTapp products. Technology areas: Node (React), Python, ElasticSearch, Mongo, Postgres, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, etc.

Tophatter was a fun shopping site that connected sellers to buyers via 90 second auctions. I joined to build the new Portland, OR engineering office, recruiting and hiring 5 engineers for that effort (25% of engineering). In the COVID-19 era, I guided the transition of the physical office to become fully remote. Technology stack: React, React Native, Ruby/Rails, MySQL; AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, CircleCI, etc.

Lending Club is a leader in online consumer lending with over $100b originated (Q1 2025). I managed teams (10-15 people) responsible for maintaining and enhancing the backend borrower application process. Areas of focus: product expansion/growth, operational stability (SRE), platform optimization/performance, native mobile. Technologies primarily in Java, SQL, JavaScript, React & React Native; AWS, New Relic, Splunk.

Vouch offered best-of-class loan products for an underserved population. Vouch's "secret sauce" was to use real world connections as an alternative signal for risk to assess credit-worthiness. Series A backed by Core Innovation Capital, IDG Ventures, First Round, Greylock, Stanford and AngelList. Part of StartX's fall 2014 batch of startups and after demo day was a top five pick by TechCrunch.

I started engineering, growing from 1 to 20+ engineers and multiple products on web and mobile. Published native mobile apps on iOS and Android for consumer loan applications and financial goal keeping. Server-side technologies in Ruby/Rails, Heroku and AWS.

FairLoan connected disparate payroll platforms to understand credit risk for loan originators. I started engineering, first with Pivotal Labs then hiring a small team.

• Built and launched consumer loan origination product within 3 months of start. Pivoted to an income verification product for lenders in 2014.
• Built vendor agnostic payroll integration platform for pushing and pulling data, including employment history and loan repayment via ACH.

Hattery Labs was an incubator, accelerator, and investment firm specializing in UI/UX design, engineering, marketing, and branding. I was the first engineering hire and led the growth of the firm's capabilities.

• Built first Engine Advocacy site, with a web service/widget that ended up connecting thousands of voters to their legislators via phone directly to protest against anti-net neutrality legislation (SOPA and PIPA).

Two years before Google's Chromecast, Snapstick was a hardware and software solution for broadcasting web content from smartphones to HDTVs. Snapstick demoed at Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2011 with great coverage from Engadget, TechCrunch, VentureBeat and PCMag naming us "Best of Show". Laptopmag.com called us one of top 10 mobile start-ups of 2011.

• Joined as first mobile developer, employee #4. Architect of iPhone and iPad product, a web-based content discovery and on-TV playback control application. Technology: iOS, C, C++, Objective-C, Objective-C++, JavaScript, Virtual Network Computing (VNC) – all in one app.

Affinity Circles offered a private social network SaaS for universities and professional associations. Pivoted to recruiting search platform. I led product and engineering for recruiting service.

• Built search service to query ~20m users on any combination of 20+ dimensions with unbounded, unique values (best: 15ms, worst: 150ms, median: 30ms). Technology: Java, Lucene (pre-dated Solr).

Data Mining (2001 to 2005) and My Yahoo (2005 to 2007).

• Replaced 10+ year-old My Yahoo infrastructure with platform that was later used to replace Yahoo's front page.
• Systems and content architect for AT&T and 2Wire partner products for DVR-on-web.
• Designed and built distributed virtual filesystem for ~700 TB data warehouse across dynamically expandable disk volumes for analytics teams (2005).
• Optimized major revenue generator in data analytics for targeted ad content with 500m daily user data set (2002).

Web proxy platform that allowed dynamic, real-time modification of HTTP-based content.

At that time, the world's second-largest, free, full-text, science archives and leader in online publication of academic journals, a division of Stanford University Libraries.

• Lead developer of online edition of the English Dictionary (OED), Mar 2000.
• Lead site developer of the British Medical Journal (BMJ), Jan 1998.

Helped many efforts get off the ground, including:

• Novel multi-factor (geospatial, biometric) authentication.
• Original content news and entertainment video network.
• Marketing data analytics based on big brand deal-tracking.
• iOS mobile development.