San Francisco based developer with almost 10 years of experience touching all parts of the tech stack, though I specialize in fullstack web development. Previously, I worked on the Airbnb Anti-Discrimination team building an equitable platform for all users regardless of race, gender, or sexual orientation.

2021 — NowNotionSoftware Engineer

2021 — Now

2020 — 2021San Francisco Digital ServicesSoftware Engineer

2020 — 2021

San Francisco Bay Area

Full-Stack (Ruby on Rails and React/TS) developer on the Affordable Housing team where we worked on a public facing housing portal (https://housing.sfgov.org).

Tech lead a project to convert the site from a legacy technology to React and Typescript with a gradual migration path.

2015 — 2020AirbnbSoftware Engineer

2015 — 2020

2017 - 2021, Anti-discrimination team:

Tech-lead for various projects to reduce discrimination and systemic racial bias on Airbnb, including:

A feature to hide guest photos from hosts until their booking is confirmed. This feature had the largest impact to reduce discrimination in the history of the team.

An API-powered spelling and grammar suggestion UI launched as A/B experiment. This reduced discrimination by minimizing biased signals, such as capitalization in messages.

2015 - 2017, Instant Book team:

Built various product enhancements to increase Instant Book usage by hosts across site and Android app. In just two years these changes enabled Instant Book growth from less than 30% of all bookings to over 70%.

Technologies used on both teams:

3-5 years experience: React + Rails Fullstack development

2 years Experience: Android/Kotlin

1.5 years experience: Backend development (Java) as a service owner and maintainer

2014 — 2014GoogleSoftware Engineering Intern

2014 — 2014

Mountain View, CA

Used GWT to redesign the outline view on an internal web-based application development tool, developed user interface tests using Selenium WebDriver, wrote design documents for my projects, documented and reviewed code, and validated bug fixes.

2013 — 2014Software Engineering at Maryland (SEAM)Cyber Security Research Intern

2013 — 2014

College Park, MD

Contributed to BugBox, an exploit database for PHP web applications, developed python scripts using Selenium WebDriver to automate exploits on web applications, and created animations and a JavaScript based visualization tool to communicate our research to people outside of the cyber security field.

Education

2011 — 2015

University of Maryland

Bachelors

2011 — 2015

University of Maryland

Computer Science

2011 — 2015

Experience+

Education

Bachelors

Computer Science