2024 — NowMetaStaff Software Engineer

2024 — Now

Seattle, WA

Working on quality for Meta's Family of Apps. Mostly telling Claude Code what to do.

2022 — 2023Monarch MoneyEngineering Manager

2022 — 2023

Seattle, WA

Managed Monarch's core product team, responsible for team health and organizational processes for the engineering org.

Major driver of long term technical strategy encompassing our AWS deployment, backend application, ML systems, mobile and web frontends.

2019 — 2022Monarch MoneySenior Software Engineer

2019 — 2022

San Francisco Bay Area

Second engineer at the company, scaled the app from zero to seven-figure ARR.

Architected and built core features such as investments tracking, bank account syncing, and crypto brokerage integrations.

Owned and maintained our Javascript monorepo containing our web and mobile applications, as well as a number of shared packages.

Owner of the company's billing system and its technical roadmap. Drove work to support scaling reliably to over 200k customer accounts, iOS / Android / Web payments, subscription and freemium models, and dozens of individual growth experiments.

Initiated and led technical projects such as our REST to GraphQL migration and numerous database optimization and denormalization efforts as the app scaled across hundreds of tables, some with ~100 million rows.

2018 — 2019Cruise AutomationSenior Software Engineer

2018 — 2019

San Francisco Bay Area

At Cruise, I quickly became an engineering leader on the Product Team. I designed and implemented various microservices in our backend distributed system, leveraging tools in the AWS suite like Kinesis, Aurora, Redshift, and Redis.

My role also included setting team engineering culture and best practices, monitoring the health of our systems, talking to our system's users to uncover requirements, working with design and product management to prioritize feature asks, and communicating with other engineering teams about how our system can support their additional use cases.

2015 — 2017MetaSoftware Engineer

2015 — 2017

Menlo Park, CA

As a full-stack web engineer, I took half a dozen products from ideation to launching for over a billion people around the world. Projects include a new type of feed story for music, spatial audio processing in virtual reality, reacting to 3D scenes in 360 videos, and live video broadcasting.

I also managed multiple interns and gave conference talks on frontend architecture paradigms.

Education

2011 — 2015

University of California, Berkeley

Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)

2011 — 2015

Experience+

Education

Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)