San Francisco Bay Area
Greater New York City Area
Senior software engineer at Instagram Machine Learning (IGML), a platform responsible for sourcing and recommending all Instagram related content
Led a project to track and manage demand within IGML. This included implementing distributed tracing for client cost attribution, aggregating metrics across shared services, and creating a standard system for regression detection and admission control. Also delivered team wide keynote and workshops on managing resources solving future regressions, and best practices
Led efforts to map the data lineage of IGML’s ecosystem into a knowledge graph then delivered a stakeholder keynote on how to leverage it for better dependency management, privacy control, and cost benefit analysis
Led a project to restrict access and enforce deletion of personally identifiable information
Rearchitected IGML client logging and realtime processing services into a more efficient layer that reduced host footprint by 25%
Cut realtime feature storage footprint by 20% by deleting features with low model significance
Optimized feature storage serialization and batched key records based on access pattern to reduce footprint by 30% and cache latency by 15%
Migrated ML features to new framework which allowed the deprecation of a legacy feature framework- saving 75% of database write QPS, 10% of fleet size, and increased engagement by 0.7%
2017 — 2018
San Francisco Bay Area
Modsy allows you to visualize your designs and furniture in your home before you buy it using realistic 3D renderings.
Built and scaled a custom, in-house 3D render job pipeline
Saved customer success 20 hours/week by creating an order management system with automated product refunding
Improved query times by 50% and unified data access patterns by creating a data access layer for products and 3D render jobs
Refactored and removed 20,000 lines of code within the first 3 months
Increased unit test coverage from 58% to 80% by standardizing good coding practices and review
Improved site reliability after benchmarking and refactoring expensive APIs and queries
Created a release tool to automate deploys and release note creation that decreased deploy time by 5 hours/week
Created an asynchronous job to parse and convert 3D asset files into V-Ray renderable files
Provided real-time support for critical bugs using Bugsnag, Papertrail, Fullstory, and CloudWatch
2015 — 2017
Oakland, CA
Captricity is a management platform that captures and converts data generated by paper forms into business-ready information with an industry leading accuracy rate of 99.9%+.
Increased workforce throughput by using Celery to asynchronously batch Amazon Human Intelligence Tasks (HITs) based on perceived effort, task type, and completion time
Decreased job latency by building near real-time repricing of undesirable Amazon Human Intelligence Tasks (HITs)
Designed and created a new regex model to support forms with pages that are optional, repeating, and out of order
Increased system reliability by helping migrate a part of job pipeline into a separate microservice
Decreased system downtime through throttling and splitting of large jobs that consumed excessive resources
Improved customer turnaround time using job prioritization based on service level agreement (SLA)
Ensured system scalability via benchmarking, optimizing Postgresql queries, and segregating Celery infrastructure
Provided real time support during system outages using Airbrake, Splunk, NewRelic, and custom monitoring integrations
Mentored two summer full-stack interns and helped them deliver core improvements on form setup and configuration
2014 — 2014
Palo Alto, CA
Natero is a customer success platform that uses machine learning to predict user behavior and big data analytics for deep customer insight.
Built a JSON configuration compiler to chain Hadoop MapReduce jobs and perform cohort analysis on large datasets
Implemented client retention rate and "layer cake" plot visualizations using d3
Created a custom LRU Redis cache with locking for parallel operations and manual garbage collection
Education
2011 — 2015
University of California, Berkeley
Bachelor of Science (B.S.)
2011 — 2015