# David Gee > Product at Imply Location: Oakland, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/davidgee I am an experienced engineering manager and technical lead with a focus on front-end and UI development. I enjoy managing and growing teams, guiding product development, and contributing materially to the products I build. Having worked as both a developer and a designer in the past, I take pride in my expertise with the engineering aspects of user experience, and in facilitating realization of product vision through deep collaboration across all facets of the organization. ## Work Experience ### Chief Product Officer @ Imply Jan 2026 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area Leading a global team across Product, Engineering, User Experience, Technical Docs and Developer Relations. Responsible for strategy, execution, P&L for all Imply products, both proprietary and open source. ### Senior Vice President of Engineering @ Imply Jan 2024 – Jan 2026 ### Vice President of Software Engineering @ Imply Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 ### Senior Director Of Engineering @ Imply Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 ### Director Of Applications Engineering @ Imply Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Oakland, California, United States ### Applications Engineering Manager @ Imply Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 Line manager leading the application design and engineering teams at Imply. Delivered multiple new capabilities for visual analytics, alerting, reporting, and enterprise security, driving account growth and retention with strategic customers. Optimized SDLC, build and release, recruiting. ### Senior Product Manager @ Imply Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area Worked with executive team as the initial product manager for Imply to set product roadmap and drive execution. Delivered multiple high-impact customer-facing capabilities and enhancements for our visualization product, Pivot. Helped to scale out the product management team, establish product and development process, and coordinate internal training and rollout planning with the field org. ### Director of Applications Engineering @ PIX System Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area Led the web, native apps, and design teams, managing development of collaboration tools delivered as iOS, Apple TV, Web, and desktop applications. Defined and improved engineering processes and standards, grew out development and design teams, delivered multiple new products and headline roadmap features. Worked cross-functionally across the organization to set product strategy and execution plans, co-ordinating the delivery of the infrastructure and APIs needed for my teams' applications. ### Engineering Manager, Web Applications @ PIX System Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area Led development of a rewrite of the legacy web application with an initial team of 3. Transitioned the team to an agile development methodology. Matured the development practices of the team by introducing formalized coding standards and code review workflows. Worked to spread these practices to other teams in the organization. Doubled the size of the team. Delivered multiple features to bring the web application into feature parity with the existing native apps. Delivered the first externally-facing administration tools for the company. ### UX & Front-End Engineering @ Compass Quality Insight Inc. Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | San Francisco Bay Area Designed, prototyped and implemented a real-time, websockets-enabled AngularJS web application. Worked with external vendors to define branding and the marketing website. Compass Quality created QA tools for manual and exploratory testing analytics. ### Independent UX Consultant @ Self Employed Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Greater Los Angeles Area Independent consultant on various mobile and enterprise web applications. ### Lead Interface Designer @ Co-Exprise Jan 2004 – Jan 2012 Led the interface design for a next-generation sourcing and supply chain management platform. Modules included e-sourcing, real time negotiations, spend analysis, program & project management, contracting, awarding, and total cost sourcing. Worked alongside principals to analyze and refine end-user and customer requirements. Created and refined platform information architecture, interface design, and interaction design. Responsible for rapid iterative prototyping, delivering high-fidelity interactive prototypes, usability evaluation, and front-end development. ### Sr. Information Designer @ Freemarkets Jan 2003 – Jan 2004 Worked on a large-scale redesign of the enterprise sourcing platform. Responsible for information and interaction design, rapid iterative prototyping, high-fidelity interactive prototypes, and usability testing. Served as technical lead and mentor to the design team. Worked with the development team to implement the final design and provide quality assurance. Provided technical mentorship to the development team on front-end technologies. ### Interface Design Lead, Front-End Engineer @ Right Hand Manager Software Jan 2002 – Jan 2003 Designed and developed a spend-analysis web application in a start-up environment. Responsible for information architecture, interaction design, user interface, and front-end development. ### Web Developer @ MAYA Design Jan 2000 – Jan 2002 Worked as front-end development consultant with an interdisciplinary team. Clients included ABN AMRO, Merrill Lynch, Highmark, Dun & Bradstreet, and Lutron Electronics. Responsible for providing technical guidance to design team, rapid iterative prototyping, front-end development across a range of client and server-side technologies, and Linux systems administration. ### Web Developer @ eToys Jan 1999 – Jan 2000 Front-end engineer, built static web pages with DHTML/CSS/Javascript, dynamic pages using custom Perl-based templating language. Built and maintained company Intranet. Some Linux admin. ## Education ### University of Cape Town ### UC San Diego ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/davidgee - Website: http://davidgee.net --- Source: https://flows.cv/davidgee JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/davidgee/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-05