INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Plaid employees are becoming alumni and fanning out into the broader startup ecosystem
Summer as its head of engineering
As I described the company a few months ago following its Series A fundraise:The public benefit corporation is on a mission to act as a
Through its platform, borrowers can get a full 360-degree view of their current student loan situation, and begin exploring options for how
engineering team as an engineering manager this past year
Prior to joining Quovo, Whitfield was CTO of popular New York City-based pizza slice delivery app Slice.For Whitfield, Summer is an
opportunity to take advantage of a combination of his skills coming from a consumer-facing app and B2B2C model like Slice and the fintech
integration architecture of Plaid
Whitfield says he has been interested in joining companies once they have proven traction and need to scale from thousands to millions of
users.John Whitfield of Summer (Photo via Summer)Prior to beginning his tech career, Whitfield was a classical cellist and holds a Doctor of
Music Arts.Will Sealy, CEO and founder of Summer, said that expanding the engineering and data teams will be a huge priority this year
student loans, all kinds of private options and more than 100 loan assistance programs available to borrowers, the rules of which change
The hope is that Whitfield will be able to bring his lessons learned from Plaid to think how best to integrate all the streams of data in
Expect to hear more from this company soon.
