The 6SensorLabs team has been growing across the board.
We've got new hires in operations, software, marketing and hardware. These experts are instrumental in delivering Nima to your hands.
Hardware
We searched high and low for an electrical engineer who had the experience of getting products to market. John Artiuch has jumped right into the thick of things.
John Artiuch
John joins the team at 6SensorLabs after spending eight years in new product development consulting. Working with small startups to large companies, such as GE Oil & Gas, he has helped take many new ideas from concept to the market. John holds a B.S. in electrical engineering, and his passion is in electronics and hardware design. When not playing with circuits, John likes spending time in the mountains, backpacking in the summer and snowboarding in the winter.
Food Identity: Allergy-free; Love sampling all sorts of ethnic cuisines; At home, I like to cook with fresh ingredients, matching recipes to wine.
Software
Once we hired Ryan and explained the scope of our vision for the software side of Nima, he suggested we double the software engineering team to two and hire a back-end engineer. Vat joined the team to help us figure out back-end infrastructure and data management and to provide us with the some of the funniest links each week on Slack.
Vat Raghavan
Vat joins 6SensorLabs after a successful career with 15 years experience at both large and small software companies, most recently as Managing Engineer at Tilt.com. When not at work Vat likes to plays tennis & experiment on his next culinary creation.
Food Identity: Allergy-free, but I have tons of friends and family with various allergies and food restrictions. Growing up vegetarian, I have a huge appreciation for healthy, meat-free diets.
We also knew that having Ryan, Vat and Carla design the actual app would only make people cry. After meeting with lots of actual candidates, we found Cindy Terdiman as our product designer. We got into a flow in our interview and that continues as she thinks about what we have to do on the software side to make it easy for you to use.
Cindy Terdiman
Cindy comes to 6sensor labs after spending 12 years in UX/visual design, most recently designing mobile tools for Bechtel. After a search for her next meaninful project, she is excited to empower people to know what is in their food. In addition to design, Cindy has a BA in Political Science from UCSB and an MBA from Emory University. When away from her computer, Cindy is most likely climbing somewhere in the Eastern Sierras.
Food Identity: Allergy-free but struggles with dining out. Relies on home-cooked meals to stay full and happy. Most appreciative of home made pie.
Marketing
As we ramp up our marketing activities, we needed more full-time on the marketing team. Heather joins us as our public relations lead, helping with communications, media relations, events and social media.
Heather Sliwinski
Heather comes to 6SensorLabs with more than seven years of public relations experience, specializing in enterprise and consumer technology. She has worked with some of the biggest innovators in the industry today as her clients, including salesforce.com, Samsung and VMware, leading their corporate and product communications programs. She loves to find the human element in technology, telling stories about how tech is impacting our everyday lives. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a B.A. in journalism and mass communications and a certificate in business. Outside of work, you'll find Heather running half marathons with Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America, cooking paleo meals and exploring San Francisco's many neighborhoods.
Food Identity: No diagnosed food allergies, but live a life free of grains, lactose, sugar, corn and soy to manage symptoms of Crohn's disease. Cook at home whenever possible with fresh and organic foods. Still learning to master the art of grilling the perfect steak. Hate cilantro.
Office
We were having a hard time organizing ourselves before Kerri showed up on the scene, and the whole team heaved a collective sigh of relief. She makes certain the office runs smoothly.
Kerri Bierman
Kerri joins 6SensorLabs from the non-profit world, most recently as a program manager for a local non-profit, where she took groups of teens on innovative educational trips to Israel to shoot self-produced documentary films. In her free time, Kerri enjoys cooking and entertaining, photography, spending time with family and is always planning the next great travel adventure with her husband!
Food Identity: Allergic to eggplant and sensitive to eggs and dairy, but I'm a big fan of brunch so sometimes I choose to suffer! I love to cook fresh healthy meals and experiment in the kitchen. Lover of sushi, hater of bananas!