# Lawrence Bruhmuller > Engineering Leader, Husband, Dad Location: Oakland, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/lawrencebruhmuller Startup technology leader, with over a decade in senior engineering leadership roles for growth stage products. Flexible leader comfortable managing teams from 10 to 200. Have been through multiple acquisitions (on both sides). As time allows, share experience about engineering management on Medium (https://lbruhmuller.medium.com) and within investor networks. ## Work Experience ### Eng Mgmt @ Sigma Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States Leading Sigma’s query compiler and query serving teams, as well as doing whatever else I can to improve our engineering function and keep up our amazing growth curve. Actively hiring for both teams, DM me if you want a challenging role in data infrastructure software at a rocket ship company! ### Consultant / Advisor @ PeakSpan Capital Jan 2022 – Present | Remote Pre-investment diligence + advising CEOs and eng leaders within portfolio ### SVP of Engineering @ Great Expectations Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area Great Expectations is the world’s most popular data quality solution. The team behind the ubiquitous open source project (20M downloads a month on PyPi) now provides a groundbreaking “batteries included” SaaS product, GX Cloud, that allows for easy set up and seamless collaboration across an enterprise. Joined GX post Series B to take the engineering org to the next level and build out a brand new SaaS product, with both freemium users and enterprise customers. Along the way, grew and matured the engineering team from 10 to 25, rewrote much of our open core to create GX 1.0, and in 2025, launched our first core LLM-based capability. ### Chief Technology Officer @ Pave Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco, California, United States Pave is the best compensation toolset on the market, with an automated, real-time approach to data integration, a delightful, modern SaaS experience, and the largest shared data set by far. Joined as CTO to lead a small but mighty team into the post Series B growth stage. Doubled the size of the team in 6 months and drove many areas of maturation for the team, particularly around data integration, security and observability. ### Chief Technology Officer @ Optimizely Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area Optimizely is the market leading web experimentation platform, used by the Fortune 500 and small businesses alike to optimize their user experiences. Joined as CTO, led the shift toward more developer-focused products (feature flagging / progressive delivery), and managed a team of 100+ through a global pandemic and a successful acquisition by Insight Partners. Executive sponsor for top accounts including eBay, Alaska Airlines, and Fox. ### Vice President Of Engineering @ WeWork Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area WeWork is the world’s biggest coworking company, pioneering the concept of “space as a service” on a global scale. Joined as VP of Engineering focused on all things Growth: Attracting new members to WeWork, converting them into customers, and retaining them. Grew team from 60 to 200+ in 18 months, and fully overhauled back end systems to allow for new membership based products and a self-serve buying experience for space. ### Vice President of Engineering @ ClearSlide Jan 2013 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area ClearSlide is the original “sales engagement” platform, providing a single system for customer content, integrated tools to share that content over the web, and seamless integration with Salesforce or other CRM solutions. Joined as VP of Engineering, taking over a small team of 15 people from the cofounder/CEO and grew it into a mature, streamlined organization of over 70, shipping multiple new products and maturing the product to be both cloud native and enterprise grade. ClearSlide was acquired in the fall of 2017 and is now part of BigTinCan. ### Vice President, Data Loss Prevention @ Symantec Jan 2007 – Jan 2013 | San Francisco Bay Area Vontu pioneered the Data Loss Prevention (DLP) category during a time when security products were oriented on malware and protecting infrastructure from outside intruders, instead of focusing on the most valuable or sensitive data assets and how to protect them. Symantec acquired Vontu in 2007 and the Vontu DLP solution still provides the foundation to their data security portfolio. Symantec was acquired by Broadcom in 2019. Joined Vontu as first external manager hire for the engineering team, grew to Director with product level responsibility, and post-acquisition grew to Sr. Director/VP with full line-of-business responsibility. As overall departmental leader, grew the engineering team from 80 to 250 engineers. ## Education ### Bachelor of Science in Engineering and Applied Mathematics Harvey Mudd College ### Master of Science in Applied Mathematics Claremont Graduate University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/lbruhmuller - Portfolio: https://lbruhmuller.medium.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/lawrencebruhmuller JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/lawrencebruhmuller/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-10