San Francisco – (Business Wire) – Algolia, the leading API-first search and discovery platform, today announced Sean Mullaney as the company’s new Chief Technology Officer (CTO). With experience scaling a best-in-class engineering organization, developing AI search and discovery technologies, and growing API-first solutions globally, Mullaney is well-suited to support Algolia’s rapid pace of growth and innovation.
Co-founder and former CTO Julien Lemoine, who built Algolia into a $2.25B search and discovery industry leader processing 1.5 trillion search queries per year, helped lead Mullaney’s search process and continues to be active as an advisor Involvement in Algolia. He will also remain on the Board of Directors.
“We had a long list of what we were looking for in a new CTO, and Sean checked every box,” said Algolia CEO Bernadette Nixon. “His deep engineering experience, customer-centric mindset, strong values, and willingness to roll up his sleeves make him a perfect fit for Algolia. We are excited to welcome him to our organization and can’t wait to see what we can do together What has been achieved.”
Mullaney joins Algolia from Stripe, where he most recently served as European CIO and led a global engineering organization that oversaw the development and operations of more than 40 native payment methods in Europe, Asia and the Americas that processed hundreds of billions of dollars.
Prior to Stripe, Mullaney oversaw the development of an AI-driven discovery experience including search, recommendations, personalization and browsing as VP of Engineering at Zalando, Europe’s largest e-commerce fashion retailer with nearly 50 million active customers. Mullaney also led innovation teams at Google for more than seven years, including three years at Google Research Labs in Silicon Valley.
“Online search and discovery of new products and information is a fundamental part of the Internet economy,” Mulaney said. “It’s exciting to be part of an R&D organization that is scaling state-of-the-art artificial intelligence to help improve trillions of customer searches each year. My experience in scaling engineering organizations and delivering API-first products to builders is a perfect fit Supporting Algolia’s continued global expansion.”
In addition to being Algolia’s CTO, Mullaney is on the board of Manna Drone Delivery, a member of the Risk Advisory Board at Elkstone Ventures, a member of the European Central Bank’s Market Advisory Group, advising on the design of the digital euro and an active startup advisor and a Sequoia Scouting angel investor. Mullaney holds a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge.
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Algolia is revolutionizing search and discovery by delivering the world’s most powerful API-first search and discovery platform with its unique hybrid search engine that combines keyword and vector-based semantic search in a single API through neural search technology. Algolia gives builders and business users a better way to build unique and engaging end-user experiences at Internet scale, anticipating customer needs with blazing speed and the best application browsing experience, resulting in more Excellent find. Algolia is your content guide to the world where you live, work and play. So Discovery has been redesigned to be the right content for every user discovery to inform, enrich and surprise. More than 17,000 companies, including Under Armour, Birchbox, Stripe, Slack, Medium, and Zendesk, rely on Algolia to manage more than 1.5 trillion search queries per year. Algolia is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Atlanta, Austin, Paris, London, Bucharest and Sydney. To learn more, visit www.algolia.com.