Ariel Perez
@arielperez
Experienced product leader and engineer driving growth through technology.
What I'm looking for
I am a seasoned engineer and product leader with over 20 years of experience across startups, scale-ups, and Fortune 50 companies. My expertise lies in bridging product and technology to drive growth, accelerate release cadence, and create impactful products. I thrive in building high-performing, adaptive organizations that deliver exceptional business results.
Currently, I serve as the Head of Product & Technology at Tinybird, where I lead the development of enterprise-grade data infrastructure for real-time analytics. My leadership has transformed engineering culture, improved platform stability, and significantly increased business profitability. I am passionate about fostering autonomy and clarity within teams, enabling them to take ownership of their outcomes and initiatives.
Throughout my career, I have consistently delivered results, from cutting lead times for data-intensive features to architecting platforms that enhance product responsiveness. My commitment to operational excellence and innovation has not only saved millions in operational costs but has also driven substantial improvements in product delivery and customer satisfaction.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Field CTO
Tinybird
Jul 2024 - Present (1 year)
As Tinybird's first Field CTO, served as the technical bridge between the company and the market, working with global customers, prospects, partners, and internal teams to communicate complex real-time analytics solutions as tangible business value. Led DevRel and Sales Engineering teams, tripling high-quality technical content production while significantly increasing win rates.
Head of Product & Technology
Tinybird
Nov 2024 - Present (8 months)
Led the product and technology organization in building enterprise-grade data infrastructure that enables real-time analytics at scale while simplifying the developer experience. Transformed engineering culture by ensuring teams consistently had clear strategy, vision, context, and themes, enabling autonomous decision-making and increased ownership of outcomes and initiatives.
VP of Engineering - Measurement & Learning
Split Software
Jun 2022 - Jun 2024 (2 years)
Led a high-performing engineering team in building real-time data pipelines, consuming over 100 GB of data per day from hundreds of customers. Re-platformed the big-data analytics infrastructure, migrating 100s of TBs of data to a real-time streaming data platform in under a year, saving over $1.2M annually in licensing and operational costs, while accelerating innovation and delivery.
Head of Digital and Communications Platforms
JP Morgan Chase & Co.
Jan 2022 - Jun 2022 (5 months)
Led the strategy and development of the native mobile and web platforms, graphql backend-for-frontends, and cross-channel communications platform, enabling product, marketing, and engineering teams to efficiently and effectively deliver Chase UK. Architected platform to facilitate bi-weekly releases of the mobile app on both Android and iOS platforms, enhancing product responsiveness and feature d
Head of Marketing Technology
JP Morgan Chase & Co.
May 2019 - Dec 2021 (2 years 7 months)
Delivered a customer waitlist system that enabled rapid onboarding of tens of thousands of users—188% above target. Migrated chase.co.uk to a Jamstack architecture, cutting lead times from weeks to hours.
Co-Founder/Chief Technology Officer
MSCLVR
Jul 2013 - Apr 2017 (3 years 9 months)
Empowered music content creators and marketers with a suite of tools that optimize the way that music content is promoted, shared, and monetized. Designed and developed an application that grew to tens of thousands of users with no marketing and only a 2-person team.
Head of Product & Engineering - Dark Canary
JP Morgan Chase & Co.
Sep 2017 - May 2019 (1 year 8 months)
Conceived, built, and launched JPMC's first full-stack feature-flagging platform for progressively delivering features to Chase’s 65MM+ active digital users. Built an autonomous, cross-functional team to take a scalable, cross-platform, user-friendly feature-flagging platform from concept to implementation in under 9 months.
Head of Core Web Engineering and Solution Architecture
JP Morgan Chase & Co.
Apr 2017 - Dec 2018 (1 year 8 months)
Led expert teams responsible for shared components, platform-level non-functional requirements, hybrid web & native integrations, and solution architecture for Chase Online. Improved average page load time by 4.25 seconds by reducing JS bundle sizes through systematic identification and removal of redundant and obsolete code, and increasing cache hit rates.
Chief Technology Officer
Try the World
Oct 2015 - Feb 2017 (1 year 4 months)
Led junior engineering team in building a robust, performant, service-oriented architecture on top of Shopify with Ember, NodeJS APIs, and Postgres on Heroku. Re-engineered subscription product management process reducing lead time for new product listings from days to minutes.
Senior Engineer
Birchbox
Jan 2003 - Jan 2015 (12 years)
Built and scaled core services; unified global e-commerce platforms. Modernized global brokerage trading platform.
Web Engineer
Diving Tank Studios
Jan 2003 - Jan 2015 (12 years)
Delivered client websites and design work across verticals. Built and scaled core services; unified global e-commerce platforms.
Engineering Lead
JP Morgan Chase & Co.
Jan 2003 - Jan 2015 (12 years)
Modernized global brokerage trading platform. Delivered client websites and design work across verticals.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
University of Pennsylvania
Bachelor of Science, Computer & Cognitive Science
Studied Computer & Cognitive Science with a minor in Mathematics and Economics. Focused on the interdisciplinary aspects of computing and human cognition.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
Availability
Location
Authorized to work in
Website
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