Victor Quinn

Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer

Texture

Jun 2023 - Current (3 years 1 month)

I lead all technology, architecture, and engineering at Texture, where we’re building the industry cloud for energy—a unified platform for utilities, OEMs, and energy providers to connect, manage, and act on data from distributed energy resources (DERs), meters, grid topology, and more. Texture started as a developer-focused integration layer for energy devices; it has since evolved into a full data and operations platform powering grid modernization. Our products include a Device Cloud for OEM connectivity, a Workflow Engine for demand response and DERMS operations, and Ops View, our enterprise UI for program enrollment, dispatch, and analytics. My role spans technical and operational leadership: - Defining system architecture across a m

VP of Engineering

Extra Card Acquired by Orchard

May 2022 - May 2023 (1 year 1 month)

I was leading the Tech team at Extra, a fintech startup which is helping people navigate their financial journey and build credit with a debit card. Valued as a tech unicorn with strong backers (a16z, Firstmark, Lerer Hippeau, and Green Bay Ventures), Extra rapidly went from a small Series A to a Series B company with the need to mature its engineering team, tech stack and architecture, processes, etc. I rapidly scaled the team increasing engineering velocity significantly and then focusing on maturing the org and its processes while working to navigate the business and find a sustainable model. My day-to-day was leading all technology and operations. Everything from software engineering to IT to technical project management to data engi

Senior Director Of Engineering

Better

Feb 2020 - May 2022 (2 years 4 months)

I report directly to our CTO and essentially lead everything on engineering outside of our core refi mortgage business. This includes Purchase (helping people to navigate the home ownership journey, find their dream home, get a mortgage for it, and possibly sell their existing home), Real Estate (powering our in-house brokerage Better Real Estate), Property Search (including MLS and other public record sources), and what we call the Better+ businesses (Title, Appraisal, Homeowner's Insurance, Inspection, and other horizon two and three businesses). I have very wide scope across many different lines of business and work across various Product leaders. I have scaled and grown my teams to around 70 engineers today, especially going through

Head Of Engineering

Knotel

Jun 2018 - Feb 2020 (1 year 9 months)

Exit: Company fell apart and declared bankruptcy I lead the engineering and data teams at Knotel. As engineering hire number 1, I have grown our Engineering team from just me to a startup unicorn valuation. In that journey, I started by working with our Product team to figure out what we needed to build and mapped out our systems architecture. From there I was able to figure out who we needed to hire and worked to grow our team, from me to ~35 total including in-house engineers and contractors and we're still growing with aggressive hiring goals. In my capacity as Head of Engineering, I am leading and growing the engineering team, figuring out a hiring and growth plan which aligns with the company's explosive growth and allows the engi

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Columbia Engineering Coding Boot Camp

Jun 2018 - Jul 2019 (1 year 2 months)

I am teaching a full stack coding bootcamp to students, mostly working professionals looking for a career change. The course I teach is part-time on nights and weekends and is an intensive 24-week course. Students start with no knowledge of coding and finish as full stack developers having experience with frontend technologies like HTML/CSS/JavaScript, Node.js, React, MySQL, MongoDB, and computer science algorithmic concepts. The intent is that they can go from zero to fully capable and employable in just 24 weeks. I find it incredibly rewarding to take students on this grueling and fast-paced journey and to see their remarkable growth through the relatively short duration of the course.

Instructor

Rutgers Division of Continuing Studies

Aug 2017 - Feb 2018 (7 months)

I am teaching a full stack coding bootcamp to students, mostly working professionals looking for a career change. The course I teach is part-time on nights and weekends and is an intensive 24-week course. Students start with no knowledge of coding and finish as full stack developers having experience with frontend technologies like HTML/CSS/JavaScript, Node.js, React, MySQL, MongoDB, and computer science algorithmic concepts. The intent is that they can go from zero to fully capable and employable in just 24 weeks. I find it incredibly rewarding to take students on this grueling and fast-paced journey and to see their remarkable growth through the relatively short duration of the course.

Director of Engineering

Spring Inc

Dec 2016 - Jun 2018 (1 year 7 months)

Exit: Acquired in part by Shoprunner, in part by Compass Leading teams of engineers at Spring, a rapidly growing tech startup focused on fashion. At Spring we are building the future of shopping, helping brands make the transition from brick and mortar to mobile and web. We have built and are scaling a single source marketplace for a growing list of great brands to sell their products direct to consumer. I am leading teams to build solutions that scale. Our engineering organization is growing rapidly -- doubling last year and on track to double again this year. I am helping this organization grow. I am bringing my expertise at building scalable systems to the problems Spring is solving and I am mentoring engineers to grow with the compan

VP of Engineering

SocialRadar

Sep 2013 - Dec 2016 (3 years 4 months)

Exit: Acquired by Verizon Leading the engineering team at SocialRadar, a startup specializing in location technologies reporting directly to the CEO. Architecting systems and ensuring applications are built to scale. Managing engineers by building out the team, working to keep morale and retention up, maintaining a positive engineering culture, providing technical guidance, acting as a mentor, and leading by example. Polyglot coder, committing code to anything needing attention on the front end, back end, or ops. Led team and kept most engineers on board through multiple pivots. This was very rough to navigate but through it I learned immensely. Eventually, we were able to pull out a successful acquisition by Verizon.

Senior Web Developer

NGP VAN

Mar 2012 - Sep 2013 (1 year 7 months)

Led an engineering team to revamp the process by which the company took and processed contributions for political campaigns. Spearheaded a rewrite of the core API for taking monetary contributions and the dynamic client-side form generation. This resulted in forms that were more extensible, better looking, and auto-filling which led to significantly increased conversion rates.

Web Programmer

Amherst College

Sep 2008 - Mar 2012 (3 years 7 months)

Collaborated with a team to create custom tools to empower faculty and staff to create rich education content. Primarily focused on the full stack of media uploads, from UI to storage, my work resulted in making it easier for educators to create content, students to upload files, and educators to review them.

Senior Developer

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Jul 2005 - Sep 2008 (3 years 3 months)

Specialized in software design and programming for internal processes including web development, custom Windows application development, and other various scripting. Each project I developed helped automate some processes and liberate others from antiquated systems such as moving from an emailed MS Access file to a true database application.

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