Experience
2023 — Now
2023 — Now
New York, New York, United States
• Engineer on the Spotify Native Ads Team architecting large-scale batch and real-time data pipelines that process ~100,000 promotional campaigns and reach ~10 million listeners monthly
• Technical Lead for a project that allowed promotional campaigns to be created with 24 hours notice. Devised architecture and scheduling optimizations that reduced campaign processing time from ~20 hours to ~4 hours
• Established standards for systematically auditing, scale-testing, and optimizing Native Ads data pipelines that have lead to significant pipeline cost savings, runtime latency decreases, and hours of developer time saved debugging failures during on-call
2020 — 2023
2020 — 2023
San Francisco, California, United States
• Engineer on the Twitter Product Analytics team working to support Twitter as it became the largest BigQuery customer on Google Cloud, enabling multi-million dollar savings
• Built a high-traffic distributed system to automatically track schema, permissions, and retention of ~1 million tables and several petabytes worth of company data stored in Twitter’s BigQuery Enterprise Organization
• Created a compliance-enforcement application that deleted Twitter-owned BigQuery tables that failed to meet company data safety standards, helping the company keep its data secure and aiding during possible legal audits
2019 — 2019
2019 — 2019
Greater New York City Area
• Engineer on the MongoDB Atlas product working with Java and React, allowing users to provision and access hosted MongoDB database instances through the web portal
• Enabled Atlas worldwide to securely connect to their personal database via an X509 certificate, which is orders of magnitude more secure than the default option of plaintext passwords
• Collaborated with UI designers to add features to simplify certificate management for the over 50,000 users of Atlas’s web portal
2018 — 2018
2018 — 2018
San Francisco Bay Area
• Engineer on the Uber Freight product working with GoLang and React
• Built email reminder systems to relay payment updates to the ~500,000 Uber Freight truck drivers nationwide
• Improved the speed of freight payment notifications to just under 24 hours, representing a 95% increase in speed - it typically takes over 30 days after completing a delivery for a truck driver to receive information about their payments
2017 — 2017
2017 — 2017
Palo Alto, California, United States
• Member of Pear VC’s Summer 2017 Startup Launchpad Program, where our team successfully raised pre-seed capital and launched a pilot program with paying users
• Co-founded Goodpoint, a platform where users can get professional feedback on important documents
• Served as Technical Lead and built the entire web platform from scratch using Node.JS, React, MongoDB, Amazon S3, and Amazon EC2
Education
University of California, Berkeley
Bachelor’s degree
University of California, Berkeley