Andrew W. Hogue

Director of Engineering

VP Engineering

Responsible for all internally-built technology, including consumer products, marketing, customer support, culinary design, forecasting, planning, inventory, manufacturing, packing, logistics, data warehousing, devops, product management, and project management. Member of executive leadership and operating team.

• Grew engineering team from 30 to 100+ engineers over 2 years.
• Built ML team to rebuild forecasting system from scratch, significantly raising margins through lower food waste and higher labor efficiency.
• Responsible for technology support for IPO, including SOX compliance, internal controls, audit, PCI, and data security.
• Executive Champion for Diversity and Inclusion across all of Blue Apron.

SVP Engineering

SVP and Head of Engineering (Nov 2014 onwards). Prior to that, engineering lead for all search- and data-related efforts, including the Explore recommendations, contextual/passive search, user location, venue database, and the superuser community.

• Built the team and technology that powered Foursquare's search and recommendations. Grew the team from 4 to 20 engineers.
• Personally coded a significant portion of the Foursquare Explore search ranking algorithm, infrastructure, and evaluation suite.
• Primary technology liaison for strategic partnerships, including Microsoft's $15m strategic investment in 2014.
• As SVP, responsible for 100 engineers across all application engineering, infrastructure, SRE, and IT.

Senior Staff Engineer / Engineering Manager

Built structured data engineering group from 5 to 35 engineers. Architected and built Google's core representation for structured annotations on documents, still in use across Google across products including Web Search, Maps, Ads, and Product Search. Responsible for both long-term strategic planning as well as direct team leadership, development, and recruiting.

Key accomplishments:

• Annotations Framework: Designed and implemented a system for annotating structured information on documents. Built team of 12+ engineers from scratch to develop and implement new extraction techniques and drive product integrations across Google. This system drove features like Places Mode, Rich Snippets, and Recipe Search on Web Search, as well as "Web Pages" and "Reviews" sections on Google Maps.
• Structured Data and NLP Strategy: Responsible for Google's overarching strategy for structured data, information extraction, and document understanding. Engineering lead for M&A in the space of semantics and structured data. Co-sponsored acquisition of Metaweb Technologies (Freebase) in July 2010.
• Question Answering and NLP: Helped build Google Search's first system for directly answering questions on the search results page. Led the development of a world-class query and document understanding framework that has answered more than a billion questions on google.com.
• Google Squared: Lead engineer and manager for team of 10 engineers building a next-generation structured search product.
• Google Goggles: Helped build and lead the New York Google Goggles team from a single engineer to 9 in New York.

Research Assistant

Worked on the Haystack project, a Java- and XML-based information management client. Research included designing and implementing data model, algorithm, and user interface for learning patterns for semantic information extraction on the World Wide Web.

Senior Developer / Team Lead

Managed design, development, and implementation of "DAX" (Data Acquisition and Transformation), a system for consolidation and aggregation of disparate financial data using J2EE components.

Co-founder and CFO

Co-founded e-commerce solutions startup. Lead development of "Natural Fit" software to match a given shopper's measurements with the correct clothing size.

Consulting and advisory roles on engineering leadership, machine learning, and organizational issues, at companies including Noom, Opus, Scout, and others.

Scout

Angel investing scout for Kleiner Perkins, actively seeking pre-seed, seed, and angel investment opportunities. Investments include Partsimony, Opus, Scout (formerly Merit), Shelf Life, and Future Air.

Principal

Angel investing and advising as part of a partnership of 5 current and former Googlers. Seed-stage investments include Hyperpublic (sold to Groupon), SetJam (sold to Motorola), and Lucid Software.

Master of Engineering in Computer Science, June 2004. GPA: 4.8/5.0
Thesis: Tree Pattern Inference and Matching for Wrapper Induction on the World Wide Web
Advisor: David Karger

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, June 2001. GPA: 4.5/5.0