Paul Devine Email Address

Vice President of Engineering

TaskRabbit, the nation's first service networking platform, is pioneering the way people get things done. TaskRabbit leverages the latest technology and the social networking movement to bring neighbors together to live smarter and more efficiently. A two-way marketplace, TaskRabbit connects 'TaskPosters,' people who need help, with 'TaskRabbits,' a network of pre-approved and background-checked individuals, who have the time and skills needed to complete the job. Based in San Francisco, Calif., TaskRabbit is backed by notable investors, including Baseline Ventures, First Round Capital, FLOODGATE Fund, Collaborative Fund, and Shasta Ventures. The company has been featured in the Wall Street Journal as well as on NBC's The Today Show.

•Led teams of 10-100 engineers to build scalable, high-performance software that solved computing problems with deterministic throughput and latency. •17 years experience building award-winning applications and sites. •Inventor of four awarded patents related to VOIP and mobile-blogging applications. •Managed large engineering teams distributed in US, Sweden, Finland, India, Singapore, China and Japan. •Brought agile product development process and continuous integration strategy to two companies, significantly increasing product quality and bringing predictability to engineering schedules. •Before Hadoop and Cassandra, led a team that built a world-class in-memory distributed data processing algorithm to solve computing problems at large scale, still used today in Oracle products. Specialties: Large scale computing, Java, in memory databases, virtualization, cloud computing, deterministic performance, agile product development