I’m experienced in building large global teams, scaling to 150 members. I have managed mature businesses and early-stage ventures, emphasizing product and engineering excellence. I thrive in high-pressure environments common in startups and turnarounds, I’ve achieved notable outcomes through resilience & strategic thinking.
VP Product & Engineering
WeWork
2022 to present
As part of our mission of creating the future of work, we are on the cusp of our next wave of growth and building out a SaaS product called Workplace. WeWork Workplace is a product that will let companies (around the world) manage their employees and their office space (whether it’s their leased or owned office property or at a WeWork or any other coworking company). The software can be used for tasks such as booking conference rooms, coordinating flexible desk usage with hybrid workers and analyzing which spaces are used the most while saving rental costs and increasing employee engagement.
VP Engineering
WeWork
2020 to 2022
Managed, mentored and coached engineering directors, managers, senior, staff and principal engineers to deliver high-quality software that helps WeWork as a business run efficiently and enables the world to reserve and use office space flexibly
Responsible for products, services, and experiences (web & mobile) that are member (consumer) facing, internal (employee) facing, application services, backend services & developer platform/ infra teams that support them.
Delivered one app that merged two mobile applications (by consolidating the swift/kotlin code on the frontend; tweaking our APIs to serve our logged-in members' needs and the general public's query on availability and inventory; making sure that we can enable everyone to switch between their personas (work account/personal account) on the app, managing multiple payment profiles per member), provided a seamless experience for wework full-time members and on demand members
Delivered technology that supported launching WeWork franchise business in 9 markets around the world, generating billions of dollars in annual revenue
Scaled the Direct-to-Consumer products including All Access and On Demand internationally driving millions of dollars in ARR
Customized, build & delivered a technology solution that helped a landlord (Saks fifth ave) to launch their cowering venture called Saksworks - powered by wework
Helped WeWork go public (via SPAC) in October 2021
Head of Engineering
WeWork
2018 to 2020
Hired & Led a team of ~100 Software Engineers.
Built a technology brand in China by hosting, organizing & sponsoring meetups, tech conferences, etc.
Managed, mentored and coached three engineering directors, several managers, senior and staff engineers to successfully deliver high-quality software products that are used by the members and employees of WeWork in China
Responsible for overall on-time software delivery, people happiness, engineering culture & excellence.
Designed and implemented a well-balanced, mission-based organization structure that could easily scale 10x
Maintained & optimized budget on vendor spend, technology operations & hiring.
Educated & evangelized about technology & more specifically about the role & business value tech brings to WeWork core business both internally & externally. Spoke at QCon, MWC, TECOM, RICS, CES Asia, etc.
Built a developer platform team that was responsible for dev tools on Alicloud and Machine Learning support
Provided technical guidance and oversight to multiple teams across product areas to drive engineering excellence and hygiene required to build highly performant, robust and reliable software products.
Helped launch the localized China app in the local app stores
I was referred to as "韩睿世" in the Shanghai tech scene.
Engineering Director
WeWork
July 2015 to 2018
Scaled the member experience tech team from ~15 to ~60 software engineers by recruiting top software engineers in the new york tech scene.
Managed, mentored and coached two engineering directors, five engineering managers, staff and principal engineers across New York, Singapore and Shanghai to successfully deliver high-quality software products that are used by all the members globally
Guided 7 cross-functional teams across 3 cities to coordinate with each other and build features in the member-facing applications (iOS, Android & Web) for WeWork
Scaled the product & platform from 1 to 25+ countries by optimizing the service oriented architecture, payment processors, l10n, cloud infrastructure and consumer-facing applications (iOS, Android & Web)
Accountable for overall on-time software delivery, people happiness, strong engineering culture & engineering excellence
Contributed in code (writing code, performing code reviews, design docs, architectural decisions)
Staff Software Engineer
Samsung Research America
Jan 2014 to July 2015
As a backend engineer at Mapzen (Part of Samsung Research America) I contributed to the vector tile service that powered the android map app & the tangram projects and the open source geocoder project called Pelias, which helps make geographic data easily searchable.
Worked with large-scale spatial datasets and built public-facing APIs.
Worked towards getting the most value out of the increasing amount of open data available to us.
Worked with Elasticsearch to retrieve data efficiently, while yielding the most relevant results.
Investigated & implemented NLP techniques into the geocoder’s search function to enhance user experience.
I was a founding member of a budding open-source community around our geocoding solution.
Played the role of an ambassador of open-source geocoding and open data by writing and speaking publicly about our projects at FOSS4GNA, SOTM-US
