Juan Figuera

Product Manager, Software Engineer, Entrepreneur | juan@figuera.co

ABOUT

Hi! I'm Juan, I'm an Engineer turned Product Manager / Entrepreneur.
I love all things Product i.e. analysis, strategy, management, design and development.
I'm also into surfing, snowboarding, reading, traveling, peanut butter & Thai food.
Say hello at juan@figuera.co

WORK

Co-Founder & CTO
HarvestYield, Inc. - New York, NY

• Led product team of two engineers and established engineering processes, implementing weekly code sprints, agile methodologies, and code reviews.
• Prioritized features on product roadmap by analyzing revenue impact, engineering efforts and user engagement metrics from Mixpanel and SQL queries.
• Led project to redesign mobile app and developed new data-driven approach resulting in a 30% increase in user engagement.
• Developed web and mobile apps along with co-founder using Ruby on Rails, Swift, PostgreSQL, Redis, Bootstrap, jQuery, Amazon S3 and Heroku.
• Led fundraising efforts resulting in interviews with Y Combinator and Techstars accelerators as well as two $50K investment offers from AgLaunch and Food-X.

APR 2015 - PRESENT

Software Engineer
Daily Burn Inc. - New York, NY

• Collaborated with Product and Design teams in definition of new feature specs resulting in successful front-end redesign of web app.
• Developed key onboarding feature that customized user experience based on user input resulting in 25% increase in user engagement.
• Updated back-end API endpoints optimizing overall API performance by 20%.

SEP 2013 - APR 2015

Business Analyst
Deutsche Bank AG - New York, NY

• Liaised between Design, Engineering and Business teams to implement new products and features.
• Developed detailed business requirements for new products based on analysis of clients’ needs.
• Responsible for designing, developing and launching an incident management tool that enabled 24/7 monitoring of High Frequency Trading platforms within Global Market Equities team.

SEP 2011 - SEP 2013

Product Engineer
Tyco Electronics Corporation - Lowell, MA

• Responsible for the release of five RF semiconductor products from experimental to mass production stages allowing the company to win orders of more than 12.5 Million units.
• Performed several statistical analysis models using Excel and Minitab® in order to develop standard operating procedures for semiconductor product testing.
• Actively participated in the tuning process of semiconductor products which allowed the company to win order for 5,000 units.

JUL 2007 - JAN 2009


LEADERSHIP

Founder
Geeks & Suits NYC - New York, NY

Founded and led entrepreneurs group with 400+ members.

SEP 2011 - APR 2014

Founder
NU Graduate Consulting Club

Founded and led management consulting club with over 45 graduate students from Northeastern University.

SEP 2010 - SEP 2011


AWARDS

Winner
2017 Latino Tech's Winter Startup Pitch Night

APR 2017

Best Presentation Award
NU Husky Innovation Challenge

DEC 2010


EDUCATION

M.S. in Engineering Management
Northeastern University - Boston, MA

MAY 2011

B.S. in Electrical Engineering
University of Massachusetts - Lowell, MA

MAY 2008


SKILLS

Ruby on Rails


Swift


JavaScript


HTML/CSS


Sketch


Photoshop/Illustrator



PORTFOLIO

HARVESTYIELD

Fleet management app for row crop agricultural services.

SaaS

BOXPITALITY

Subscription box service delivering travel size toiletries to Airbnb hosts.

eCommerce

REPLYBNB

Chrome extension providing response templates to Airbnb hosts.

SaaS



CONTACT

Email
juan@figuera.co

I live in
New York, NY

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