Experience
2020 — Now
2020 — Now
Authorization & Permissions Framework
Focused on enforcing security standards around data access and analyzing evolving production systems for vulnerabilities
2018 — 2020
2018 — 2020
Payments Team
• -Focused on improving the payments platform in its flexibility, reliability, & observability, enabling the platform to scale with increased passenger & driver payments
• -Mentor & establish processes to increase developer productivity
• -Worked cross-functionally (marketing, communications, legal) to maximize program adoption and meet compliance regulations
Projects
• -Chase partnership for riders to earn accelerated points for paying with Chase cards
• -Lyft Direct for drivers to receive instant payments after each ride
• -New payment provider integrations for reliability & flexibility
• -Minimizing the cost of payment processing
• -Automation of payments reconciliation
• -Fraud & incident detection
Languages: Python, Go, PHP
Tools: Splunk, Kibana, Grafana
2015 — 2018
2015 — 2018
API Infrastructure
• -Integrated OAuth 2.0 to secure public APIs and internal private APIs
• -Increased throughput & robustness via API Throttling
• -Enforced secure practices regarding cookie properties, HTTP headers, & sanitization
• -Enhanced UI development by providing metadata, filtering, & batch functionality
• -Improved consumption of legacy APIs
Technical Infrastructure
• -Improved Oracle performance by adding new indexes and reducing load with Redis
• -Microservice architecture
• ---Introduced search service built with ElasticSearch
• ---Defined deployment & configuration process with Vagrant & Ansible scripts and DropWizard
Programming language: Java
SCM: Perforce, Git
Build & Dependency Management: Gradle, Ant
Tools: Jenkins, Swarm code review, Splunk, New Relic, JMeter
Unit Test Frameworks: TestNG & Mockito
2012 — 2015
2012 — 2015
San Jose
OpenSDN Controller Team (August 2014 - June 2015)
• -Python Backend Development - REST APIs & Background processes
• -Angular 1.0 (AngularJS) User Interface Development
• ---Created new AngularJS modules, controllers, services, & directives
• ---Utilized Bootstrap & Less frameworks to provide cross-browser & mobile
compatibility
• ---Fulfilled security requirements to prevent XSS & other injection attacks
OpenDaylight Team (October 2013 – August 2014)
• -Generating APIs using RAML (REST API Markup Language)
• -Contributing to the open source OpenDaylight project, focusing on the SDN controller
• ---Defining data models for network elements and hosts using YANG
• ---Optimizing host tracking and packet forwarding logic
WebEx Social Team (Jan 2012 - October 2013)
• -Designed and implemented REST APIs using the Jersey framework
• -Created data models for WebEx Social objects, i.e. users and posts
• -Extended the test automation framework for new API workflows
• -Added integration tests & regression tests to the test suites
• -Developed OpenSocial gadgets & OAuth gadgets
Scrum/Agile teams for entire time
SCM: Git
Tools: Maven, Gerrit, Jenkins
2011 — 2011
2011 — 2011
San Jose, California
WebEx Social API Team
• -Iterative development of JSON RPC handler on Apache Shindig
• -Created unit tests using the TestNG framework & Mockito
• -Implemented JavaScript code generator using Java Reflection
Education
UCLA