Garrett Grant

Overview

Founder of Spindle Ops (D2C food brands). 18 years of building before that. Raised $35 million across 3 rounds. Before that: Adobe and Capital One. Open-source contributor on weekends.

Experience

1. Founder

   Oct 2021 - Present
   Spindle Ops · 5 yr · Full-time · New York, NY
   • Grew the team to 102 people across 4 countries.
   • Signed 312 paying customers, 21 of them enterprises.
   • Previously built and sold a small D2C food brands company.
2. Staff Backend Engineer

   Oct 2018 - Oct 2021
   Adobe · 3 yr · Full-time · New York, NY
   • Shipped 20 launches on the data platform team without a rollback.
   • Wrote the B2B SaaS service that now handles 6 million requests a day.
3. Director of Engineering

   Jun 2017 - Oct 2018
   Capital One · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
   • Cut p99 latency on the data platform services from 700ms to 158ms.
4. Senior Engineering Manager

   Mar 2014 - Jun 2017
   Etsy · 3 yr 3 mo · Contract · New York, NY
   • Shipped 6 launches on the infrastructure team without a rollback.
5. Engineering Manager

   Jul 2012 - Mar 2014
   Bain & Company · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
   • Brought on-call pages for search down from 24 a week to 2.

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Education

1. Harvard Business School

   MBA, Business Administration
   2008 - 2010
2. University of Washington

   BS, Engineering
   2004 - 2008