Hugo Troche

Hugo Troche

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VP of Engineering
Menlo Park, California, United States

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  • Angi
    Senior Vice President of Engineering
    Angi
    Aug 2026 - Current (3 months)
    I lead the engineering organization building Angi's agentic front office: AI that responds the moment a homeowner raises a hand, matches them with the right pro, books the job, and brings them back for the next one.

    What my teams and I do:

    - Ship agentic AI against real marketplace outcomes: conversion, bookings, repeat business.
    - Own the platform end to end, from first contact and instant response through scheduling and re-engagement.
    - Build the AI-native engineering organization behind it, with agentic development embedded across the SDLC.
    - Partner across product, operations, and go-to-market to scale it from public launch into the daily workflow of every pro and homeowner.

    The operati
  • Angi
    VP of Engineering
    Angi
    Mar 2025 - Aug 2026 (1 year 6 months)
    Angi is a leading home services platform that connects homeowners with local contractors for a wide range of home improvement and maintenance needs. The platform offers tools such as upfront pricing, cost estimates, and financing options to make the process seamless.

    - Lead multiple engineering teams responsible for PRO acquisition, experience, and back-office enterprise support, ensuring a seamless experience for professionals using Angi to grow their businesses.

    - I drive operational and delivery excellence across the organization, leveraging innovative technical solutions to enhance PRO acquisition, engagement, and overall customer experience.
  • Angi
    Director of Engineering
    Angi
    Mar 2024 - Mar 2025 (1 year 1 month)
    Angi is a leading home services platform, offering users access to local contractors for a wide range of home improvement and maintenance needs. Angi provides tools such as upfront pricing, cost estimates, and financing options.

    - Lead multiple engineering teams in charge of top-of-funnel user experiences, SEM, SEO, marketing tech stack, analytics, and growth initiatives.

    - Drive operational and delivery excellence across the organization, enhancing customer acquisition and engagement through innovative technical solutions.
  • Fanatics Inc
    Director of Engineering
    Fanatics Inc
    Jul 2022 - Mar 2024 (1 year 9 months)
    Fanatics is the market leader in online sports apparel, sportsbook and casino, collectibles and live events in the sports world operating in all major global markets in the US, Europe, Latin America and Asia.

    - Recruited and led 3 engineering teams with over 35 engineers to build the entire loyalty and growth programs in our sportsbook applications.

    - Our team successfully implemented all growth and loyalty features in the Sportsbook apps and drove significant growth and reduced CAC to be the lowest in the industry using AI/ML technologies.

    - Currently I am in charge of building 2 new teams to build the Fanatics “Free to Play” games and revamp the Fanatics native e-commerce applications. In process of revamp
  • Carvana
    Associate Director of Engineering
    Carvana
    Mar 2021 - Jul 2022 (1 year 5 months)
    Carvana (CVNA) is a Fortune 500 company that sells used cars online. It currently sells over $12+ billion worth of cars every year and it is the second biggest used car seller in the United States.

    - I was in charge of 5 engineering teams (40+ engineers) handling all growth and mobile technical activities.

    - My teams were in charge of all customer acquisition, ownership experience and SEO engineering and Data Analysis efforts.

    - We drove 70% revenue growth YoY.

    - The mobile applications my teams were responsible for developing drove 30%+ of Carvana’s revenue.

    I gained the responsibilities for the growth teams after my promotion from Engineering Manager.
  • Carvana
    Engineering Manager
    Carvana
    Oct 2016 - Mar 2021 (4 years 6 months)
    - Recruited and led 3 mobile engineering to develop the Carvana consumer facing applications and manage all internal mobile applications.

    - Recruited and led a full stack web team to develop our loyalty programs and post purchase engineering efforts. We managed to reduce the average time between car purchases for a consumer from 4.7 years to 2.9 years.

    - The mobile applications ended up driving 30% of Carvana’s revenue.
  • Carvana
    Team Lead
    Carvana
    Oct 2016 - Aug 2018 (1 year 11 months)
    - Started the Carvana engineering office in the San Francisco Bay Area. Recruited and led a team of 6 native iOS engineers.

    - We developed a logistic iPad app that improved car delivery time by 20%. This allowed our customer advocates to deliver one extra car per day.

    - Started all or Carvana’s mobile efforts, until I was hired Carvana was a web only experience.
  • F
    CTO and Co-Founder
    Firstline Medical
    May 2014 - Jul 2016 (2 years 3 months)
    Firstline was a telemedicine startup that raised $3.5M+ in seed funding and had over 20,000 patients in California with 26 medical providers.

    - Led the design and development of a top-ranked telemedicine mobile application that helped over 20,000 patients and provided 50,000+ medical consults.

    - Recruited and led a team of 7 onsite engineers and 10 offshore engineers.

    - Successfully fundraised a large seed round from tier 1 investors.
  • Appsperse Acquired
    CEO and Co-Founder
    Appsperse Acquired
    Jun 2011 - Oct 2013 (2 years 5 months)
    Appserse was a startup that provided LifeTime Value (LTV) Analytics to Mobile Games segmented by acquisition channel. Appsperse was acquired by AdRoll. The platform was used by 3 or the top 10 games in the iOS app store. Appsperse raised $500K+ of seed financing.

    - We developed a platform that allowed mobile application publishers to calculate the ROI on their user acquisition campaigns.
    - We tracked the monetization activities of over 65 million iOS devices in 3 of the top 10 mobile games.

    - Appsperse was acquired by AdRoll.
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  • Auburn University
    Master in Software Engineering, Software Engineering
    Auburn University
    Jan 2003 - Jan 2004 (1 year 1 month)
  • Auburn University
    Bachelor in Science, Computer Science
    Auburn University
    Jan 1999 - Jan 2002 (3 years 1 month)
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