Jeff Zira

Jeff Zira

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Co-founder (CTO / VP Product)
Mountain View, California, United States

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  • Lark Health
    Co-founder (CTO / VP Product)
    Lark Health
    Jul 2011 - Current (15 years)
    Leading product, engineering, and data teams in building lark, a caring (automated) health coach. We're hiring! More info at Lark.com
  • Yahoo
    Product Management Intern @ Yahoo.com
    Yahoo
    Jun 2010 - Aug 2010 (3 months)
    Product management on yahoo.com, Yahoo's key strategic property with 240M UU, and over $300M in yearly revenue. Created teams to build next generation of homepage.
  • MIT Sloan School of Management
    MBA (Entrepreneurship / Product focus)
    MIT Sloan School of Management
    Jul 2009 - Jul 2011 (2 years 1 month)
    Focusing on entrepreneurship, product development, and computer science. Coursework included grad-level MIT CS courses Co-founded Saner.gy, MIT $100K startup competition winner (and successful social enterprise).
  • Kiva
    Kiva Fellow / Full-stack engineer
    Kiva
    Feb 2009 - Jul 2009 (6 months)
    Independently built a web-based tool (PHP/MySQL/js) used by hundreds of Kiva employees/volunteers to streamline workflows. Prototyped new features to increase lender engagement using Kiva API. Streamlined CREDIT's (Kiva's largest partner) Kiva-facing operations
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    Co-founder (product/engineering)
    Tysam Networks
    Jun 2006 - Oct 2008 (2 years 5 months)
    Co-founded Tysam Networks, a social networking website for students. Defined/engineered product features and headed all marketing efforts. Contributed to around 1/4 of the codebase for the website (PHP/MySQL/javascript) Sold company in 2008 to Eqal.
  • Roche
    Research Associate
    Roche
    Jan 2005 - Dec 2006 (2 years)
    Synthesized over 100 novel test compounds for testing against the p2x3 receptor. Led team to scale production of potent compound I discovered 500x.
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  • MIT Sloan School of Management
    MBA
    MIT Sloan School of Management
    Jan 2009 - Dec 2011 (3 years)
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management
    MBA
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management
    Jan 2009 - Jan 2011 (2 years 1 month)
  • UC Santa Barbara
    BS, Chemistry (organic)
    UC Santa Barbara
    Jan 2001 - Dec 2005 (5 years)
  • International Christian University
    International Christian University
    International Christian University
    Study abroad, Tokyo, Japan
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    NHHS
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