Jean Barmash is currently VP of Engineering at Merchantry, an eCommerce Technology startup. He has over 15 years of experience in software industry, and has been part of 4 startups over the last seven years, 3 as CTO / VPE and one of which he co-founded. Prior to his entrepreneurial adventures, Jean held a variety of progressively senior roles in development, integration consulting, training, and team leadership. He worked for such companies as Trilogy, Symantec, Infusion and Alfresco, consulting to Fortune 100 companies like Ford, Toyota, Microsoft, Adobe, IHG, Citi, BofA, NBC, and Booz Allen Hamilton. Jean is passionate about raising the level of technical leadership, and for the last five years has been organizing CTO School meetup, an organization he co-founded and grew to over 1,600 members. Jean speaks frequently at conferences, meetups, blogs (infrequently) at http://hellofoobar.com, and tweets almost just as infrequently at @jbarmash. Jean lives in NY with his awesome and supportive wife and two hilariously-funny kids.