Dwayne Jamal Hayes

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Director of Engineering at Pebble AI · Growth engineering

Pebble AI
San Francisco, CA · PT (UTC-8)
12+ years experience
Virginia Tech
English
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Overview

I've spent 17 years on growth engineering - first at HubSpot, now at Pebble AI. Grew the growth team from 4 to 14 engineers. Reduced cloud spend on growth by 25% in two quarters. Before that: ServiceNow and Nvidia. Most at home with Node.js and React. Learning to sail.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Candidates for the role I'm hiring for
  • Advice on growth engineering
  • Working sessions on VS Code extensions
  • Second opinions on PostgreSQL decisions
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
Please don't message about
  • Recruiters for roles outside my stack
  • Courses and coaching offers
  • Unpaid work or spec projects

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Skills
ReactPostgreSQLVS Code extensionsNode.js
HiringHiring for a role
closes in 3 months

Looking for an sre who has worked on VS Code extensions at scale

Role
Sre
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
Hybrid
Compensation
$165k-$206k
Team
Growth, 6 people
Start
Within a month
Must have
Production experience with Node.js Production experience with PostgreSQL Comfort with ambiguity
Process
Decision within 10 days

Comp $174k-$294k. We decide within ten days. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

San Francisco, CA · remote OKvs code extensionsnode.jspostgresql
Open
AdvisingOpen to advising
closes in 3 months

Office hours for new engineering managers: growth engineering and VS Code extensions

Topics
growth engineering, Node.js, VS Code extensions
Format
Office hours
Terms
Free for early founders
Capacity
One call a month
Best for
Seed to Series A teams

17 years of growth engineering. Can review plans, decks and hiring loops.

San Francisco, CA · remote OKreactvs code extensionsnode.js
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Experience

  1. Director of Engineering
    Sep 2023 - Present
    Pebble AI · 3 yr 1 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Moved 70% of growth traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 39 minutes to under 5.
  2. Principal Engineer
    Aug 2020 - Sep 2023
    ServiceNow · 3 yr 1 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Sit on 6 boards.
    • Previously an operator for 10 years before investing.
  3. Staff Full-Stack Engineer
    Feb 2019 - Aug 2020
    Nvidia · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Reduced cloud spend on growth by 39% in two quarters.
    • Led the migration of 61 services to Node.js.
  4. Senior Full-Stack Engineer
    Feb 2017 - Feb 2019
    American Express · 2 yr · Contract · San Francisco, CA
    • Reduced cloud spend on growth by 26% in two quarters.
  5. Senior Full-Stack Engineer
    May 2014 - Jan 2017
    HubSpot · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Reduced cloud spend on growth by 42% in two quarters.
    • Shipped 26 launches on the growth team without a rollback.

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Education

  1. Virginia Tech
    BS, Mathematics
    2005 - 2009

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