Algolia, the leading API-First Platform for Search and Discovery, announced Sean Mullaney as the company’s new Chief Technology Officer (CTO). With experience in scaling best-in-class engineering organizations, developing AI-powered Search and Discovery technologies, and growing API-first solutions globally, Mullaney is well-suited to support Algolia’s rapid growth and pace of innovation.
“His deep engineering experience, customer-centric mindset, strong values, and willingness to roll up his sleeves, made him a perfect fit for Algolia. We are thrilled to welcome him into our organization and can’t wait to see what we can accomplish together.”
Co-founder and former CTO, Julien Lemoine, who built Algolia into a $2.25B industry leader in Search and Discovery that handles 1.5 trillion search queries per year, helped lead the search process for Mullaney and will remain very involved at Algolia serving as an Advisor. He will also remain on as a member of the Board of Directors.
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“We had a long list for what we were looking for in a new CTO and Sean checked every box,” said Bernadette Nixon, Chief Executive Officer for Algolia. “His deep engineering experience, customer-centric mindset, strong values, and willingness to roll up his sleeves, made him a perfect fit for Algolia. We are thrilled to welcome him into our organization and can’t wait to see what we can accomplish together.”
Mullaney joins Algolia from Stripe, where he most recently acted as the Chief Information Officer in Europe and led a global engineering organization overseeing the development and operations of 40+ local payment methods across Europe, Asia, and the Americas that processed hundreds of billions of dollars.
Prior to his time at Stripe, Mullaney oversaw the development of AI-powered discovery experiences, including search, recommendations, personalization and browse as the VP of Engineering at Zalando, the largest eCommerce fashion retailer in Europe with nearly 50M active customers. Mullaney also spent more than seven years at Google heading various innovation teams, including three years at the Google research labs in Silicon Valley.
SOURCE: Businesswire