Relationship
How we worked together
Amos replaced Alan Braverman as Geni's CTO after Yammer spun out of Geni. He is one of the most brilliant engineers and engineering leaders I have worked with. After Geni, he went on to serve as CTO of Flexport and continued his career as a technology executive.
Influence
What I learned
Amos combined deep algorithmic thinking with pragmatic engineering leadership. When I later needed to reproduce Geni's family-tree layout for a mobile application, I ultimately used the API he had designed—a reminder that the best abstraction is often the one that makes an extraordinarily difficult problem reusable.
Projects
Projects we built together
Geni · 2007 – 2013
Geni — one shared family tree for humanity
Amos figured out the extraordinarily complex layout mechanism that allowed Geni to render a global genealogy graph containing millions of people, one family at a time. When I later needed the same capability for a mobile application, reproducing the algorithm proved so difficult that I used his API instead. His work turned a nearly intractable graph-visualization problem into reliable platform infrastructure.
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The work we shared
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