Paul Thurlow

San Francisco, CA / github.com/pthurlow / linkedin.com/in/pthurlow

Professional
Summary

Engineering leader with 20 years of experience delivering products for large consumer and B2B websites reaching tens of millions of DAUs. Track record of scaling engineering teams from founding members to 60+ person departments, driving architecture decisions across the full stack, and shipping products from concept to production.


Employment History

Hotdata

Technical Consultant

Brief engagement advising on AI product strategy for a data infrastructure company, building a Rust CLI tool that accelerates AI agent work with data.

TDM Inc.

Founding Principal Engineer

Joined as first engineer to define the AI vision for an AI-native data analytics startup, building an AI agent for data analysts and co-creating an open-source benchmark adopted by dbt Labs.

ThoughtSpot Inc.

Formerly, Mode Inc.

Director of Engineering & Principal Engineer

Joined as founding engineer of Mode and grew with the company through its acquisition by ThoughtSpot, scaling the engineering org from the ground up to 60+ people while shipping the products and charting platform that defined the company.

Microsoft

Formerly, Yammer Inc.

Senior Software Engineer

Joined Yammer and stayed through its acquisition by Microsoft, working across the full stack — frontend, backend, and iOS.

Yahoo! Inc.

Software Engineer

Built features for the Yahoo! homepage and personalized products used by millions, including the first iPad-compatible homepage and Twitter integration.


Skills

Product Engineering: Full-stack development, web performance, AI products
Languages & Frameworks: TypeScript, JavaScript, Ruby on Rails, Python, Rust, Angular, React, RxJS, SQL, Objective-C
Leadership: Team Building, Career Development, Hiring Process, Technical Mentoring, Collaboration

Education

Carnegie Mellon University

B.S. in Electrical & Computer Engineering, Minor in Computer Science

Patents

Open Theme Builder and API

US Patent US-20100299586-A1 — Co-inventor, Yahoo! Inc.