The Quixey Team

MEET THE QUIXEY TEAM

We strive for an environment of creativity and

positive energy. We put in every effort to make

our office a fun, interactive, and innovative

workplace. Equality, transparency and mutual

respect for the individual, team and company are

core to our cultural values.

Akshay DayalSenior Build and Release Engineer

Akshay, originally from India, has worked in

Engineering a Leica, Yahoo, Sun, Twitter and

Google. He's a graduate of the Georgia

Institute of Technology.

•Software Engineer @ Google

•Software Engineer - Release @ Twitter

•Release Engineer @ Sun Microsystems

•Sr. Build & Automation Release Engineer @

Yahoo

•Software Engineer @ Leica

Eric GloverFellow

Eric has been involved with Quixey from

very early on, first as an advisor, later

joining the team full time as Engineering

Fellow. He leads the Science team,

which is responsible for short and

medium-term projects, as well as

relevance and advertising algorithms.

•Principal Scientist, SearchMe

•Principal Scientist, Ask.com

Jaeik has an impressive background in Product

Operations, having worked in operations/service

roles at multiple companies. He is known for his

adeptness at putting out fires and maintaining

smooth system operations in the event of a crisis.

•Service Engineering Manager, Yahoo! Mail

•System Administrator, Scios/Johnson & Johnson

•System Administrator, Postini

•System Administrator, Incyte Genomics

Jaeik SongDirector of Product Operations

Leigh KlotzSystem Architect

Leigh holds numerous software patents and is

proud to have developed Logo for the Apple II and

Commodore 64 computers. He has also chaired

the W3C Standard Committee and been on the

research staff of the MIT Lab for Computer

Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

•Author/Editor, ARRL

•Senior Software Architect, Xerox

•Startups: Terrapin (Cambridge), LES (Tokyo)

Jeff FanPrincipal Designer

Jeff created UC Berkeley's first graphic design

student organization, which he grew from 7

members to 100+ active members. Upon

graduating, he founded a design agency,

Innovative Design Studio. It was here that

Quixey found Jeff, initially contracting him to

redesign quixey.com, and eventually hiring

him to head design.

Paresh VakhariyaDirector of O&O and UX

Paresh has led major product

enhancements and integrations into

existing products and conducted Digital

Goods User Experience research and

design in seven countries around the

world.

•Sr. Product Manager, PayPal - Digital

Wallet Coupons

•User Research, eBay

•User Research, Intel

Tomer KaftanSoftware Engineering Intern

Liron recognized Tomer Kaftan’s talent at

an early age and quickly began to mentor

him. Over the past two years, Tomer has

excelled as an engineer, rivaling PhD’s in

Search in his abilities. After graduating

from UC Berkeley at age 19, he will join

Quixey as a full time employee.