Paul @pk Pereyda Karayan
(the unauthorised autobiography)
What’s Included with PK
- 15+ year Silicon Valley career
- Startup Generalist across business, engineering, & management roles. Solves hard problems that matter(tm)
- Currently Eng Director & CISO at Opto Investments (www.optoinvest.com )
- Early employee at winning companies like LiveOps, The Climate Corporation, Addepar, Primer.ai, and Opto Investments (>$5 Billion of market value, so far)
- Duke University and UC Berkeley (Organic Chemistry) degrees - lightly used
- Native of Los Angeles, CA
But wait, there’s more!
PK loves product discovery, marketing / business development, & forward deployed engineering. But what else is a PK good for?
- Writes lively Python and lurks at 10th Planet Jiu Jitsu San Mateo
- Frequently outshined by wife and 3 young children
- Reads (sci fi, science, history, non-fiction), listens to lots of music (metal, punk, zydeco, electronic, classical - among other things), and info dumps on the unwitting (ye shall see all in the blog posts)
- Bricoleur, 3x engineer, and Digital Warlord
- Not afraid to suck at something new. Right now, that something is: Cajun Accordion
- Considers an AI melded image of him with his cat a good idea for a professional website
