Unistore Performance Lead

• Led a multi-year project to significantly improve the OLTP query performance for Snowflake's Hybrid Tables procut.

• Directed project lifecycle and communicated progress to executive stakeholders, including SVP of Engineering and CTO

• Implemented innovative solutions to overcome technical challenges impeding throughput and latency

Service Infrastructure Technical Lead

• Led team responsible for Observability, Debuggability, and Performance Engineering

• Revitalized understaffed configuration management team, growing from 1 to 6 members, restoring operational capacity and elevating to a self-sufficient team

• Developed and implemented strategies to improve system reliability and scalability

Performance Engineering Lead

• Resolved numerous complex production issues, significantly improving system stability

• Architected distributed profiling infrastructure, enabling data-driven optimization decisions

• Mentored junior engineers in performance analysis and optimization techniques

• Co-founded a data analytics startup, leading all aspects of business and technology strategy

• Conceptualized and drove development of an innovative analytics platform using search technology to uncover insights in 60-80% of previously unexplored data

• Architected scalable, distributed systems to process and analyze large volumes of diverse data types

Directed technical vision and product roadmap, resulting in successful deployments across multiple industries

• Balanced technical leadership with executive responsibilities, including fundraising, client acquisition, and team building from the ground up

• Leveraged deep technical expertise to guide product strategy and communicate complex concepts to non-technical stakeholders

• Performed Technical Project Management tasks. Including, but not limited to: cross functional collaboration, product evangelisation, and technical coordination.

• Served as primary engineer overseeing a re-architecture of Youtube Search infrastructure, resulting in >25% CPU reduction and >5% latency reduction across Youtube search.

• Conducted over 150 interviews and participated in University outreach.

• Worked on building a smart assistant for Google Cloud Platform.

• Continued work from Talaria Tech post acquisition with a focus on integrating with Google Cloud Platform.

• Developed code generation, analysis, and optimization passes for a JIT compiler for PHP built on top of LLVM.

• Tuned system performance to reduce latency by over 50% for a beta customer in the Alexa top 25 US sites.

• Lead an effort to expand compiler and core library support to be able to run all top open source PHP applications.

• Developed new ways to optimize Facebook’s backend web infrastructure.

• Led development on the open source PECL Optimizer project.

• Involved in development of internal software tools.