# About Shine Built by people who have lived the problem. Real customer proof was too slow, too painful, and too expensive to produce. We started Shine to fix that. ## Mission Andres and Travis worked together at a prior startup, where they watched go-to-market teams burn weeks producing a single customer story. Shine is round two, built on the conviction that customer proof should be infrastructure, not a project. Every claim a company makes about itself should trace back to a real customer, on tape, with a timestamp. ## Founding team **Travis Keeney, CEO & Co-Founder.** Fifteen years inside marketing and sales teams, owning both strategy and execution. He's seen every flavor of content program from the inside, and where they break. Started Shine to build the customer proof system he always wanted: affordable enough for a small team to run at scale, and powerful enough that an enterprise can skip the multi-year, multi-million-dollar internal build. Contact: · [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/traviskeeney/) · [GitHub](https://github.com/tgkeeney). **Andres Blank, COO & Co-Founder.** MIT graduate with 20+ years building and scaling technology companies, from early stage through exit. Has built and sold companies before, and knows the difference between decisions that actually matter and stories founders tell themselves. At Shine, he brings the pattern recognition that turns strong ideas into real businesses, and the operator's instinct for which decisions actually move the needle. Contact: · [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/andresblank/). **Federico Rodriguez, Engineering Lead.** Ten years building search infrastructure and working with unstructured data at scale. At Shine, he turns long-form customer conversations into clean, verifiable proof. Owns the extraction layer end-to-end, and is a big part of why a small team can build with the depth of a much larger one, catching the edge cases that decide whether the system actually works. Contact: · [GitHub](https://github.com/fsrodrig). ## The early team **Dung Nguyen, Design.** A decade of brand and product design for B2B technology, multi-year creative direction for DroneDeploy and Skydio, plus brand and go-to-market work across the industry. At Shine, sets the visual system and helps translate a complex product into something simple to use and unmistakably its own, "technologically fluent, yet human-centric." Contact: · [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/djnguyen/). **Matias "Toti" Banzas, Engineering.** More than two decades in IT, with deep expertise across full-stack architecture, cloud platforms, and modern web and mobile technologies. At Shine, owns the application layer customers actually use, the web surfaces, workflows, and integrations that turn extracted proof into the case studies, reviews, and ads teams can actually publish. Contact: · [GitHub](https://github.com/bathan). **Daniel, Engineering.** A decade and a half building engineering systems at scale, the infrastructure layer that simply can't go down. At Shine, contributes across the parts of the stack that have to be invisible and reliable for everything else to work: workers, queues, recordings, the long-running jobs that hold customer proof together. Contact: · [GitHub](https://github.com/dgarciamuria). ## Investors and advisors Shine is backed by the operators, founders, and investors behind some of tech's most recognizable companies, including Facebook, Kayak, Candy Crush, Zumba, Airtable, Venmo, Kensho and Hisense. - **Sam Lessin, Managing Partner, Slow Ventures.** Former VP of Product at Facebook, and an early backer of Venmo, Solana and Airtable. - **Riccardo Zacconi, Co-Founder, Sweet Capital.** Co-Founder and former CEO of King, the studio behind Candy Crush. - **Paul English, Co-Founder & former CTO, Kayak.** Built Kayak, acquired for $1.8B, and now runs Boston Venture Studio. - **Alberto Perlman, Co-Founder & CEO, Zumba Fitness.** Scaled Zumba into a global fitness and media phenomenon across 180+ countries. - **Pete Kruskall, Co-Founder, Kensho Technologies.** Built Kensho, the AI analytics pioneer acquired by S&P Global for $550M. - **Iñaki Berenguer, Managing Partner, LifeX Ventures.** Serial founder with three acquisitions, including Pixable and CoverWallet. - **Bill O'Donnell, Former Chief Architect & SVP Mobile, Kayak.** A premier engineering mind behind Kayak and other high-traffic consumer platforms. - **David Gold, President, Hisense USA.** Leads Hisense's North American division, a global electronics giant. - **Max Goldman, Co-Founder, Carefull.** Sold his video startup Directr to YouTube, then built Carefull, backed by Bessemer. - **Hector Hulian, Founding Partner, Seed Radar.** Early-stage investor specializing in scaling high-growth startups from inception to exit. - **Tom Cripps, Co-Founder, ET Capital Partners.** Deputy Chairman of Velcro Companies, and Co-Founder and CFO of GhostLine Kitchens. ## How we work **Remote, global team.** Shine is fully remote and async-first. Real-time when it matters, focused work when it doesn't. Impact is what ships and the results it drives, not hours logged. **Growth through ownership.** Growth at Shine is about ownership, not titles. You'll own problems end-to-end, and see the impact of your work directly. Outcomes over activity, clarity over noise. **Environmental responsibility.** AI compute is water and energy intensive, including ours. We're building a model where every kilowatt contributes to [water restoration](/sustainability), measurable and verifiable. ## Join us! We hire for craft and conviction, people who care about technical depth and customer outcomes in equal measure. No formal roles open right now, but if that sounds like you, we'd love to hear from you. Introduce yourself at .