2023 — Now
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
Transitioned back to IC to become closer to building things directly. Currently working on building the Facebook Marketplace Seller product experience
2021 — 2023
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
I transitioned to management in this period, from supporting the VR Store Discovery team in launching products to help users easily discover the best VR content on the Quest Store to later transitioning within the Business Messaging org to support a team building the Marketing Messages product on Messenger.
2018 — 2021
Los Angeles, California
As a full stack engineer on Oculus Store, I helped launch the Meta Quest App Store and scaled it to $1B in digital app sales.
Greater Los Angeles Area
Advocated for and implemented best practices throughout our technical architecture such as using a whitelist to allow for a public yet protected GraphQL API and using Apollo to connect our React components seamlessly with our GraphQL backend
Reimplemented Honey's core transactions and stores backend systems, including efficiently migrating gigabytes of data from MySQL to Google Spanner, implementing new GraphQL and REST APIs for data access, tuning the APIs and Spanner DB with optimal queries and indices for scalability purposes, writing code for various tasks that interfaced with the APIs, and writing data quality scripts for all migrated data to ensure a confident transition from MySQL to Spanner
Explored further optimizations on our backend system by using Apollo's batch link in conjunction with Facebook's dataloader library to solve the N+1 query problem run into by most GraphQL applications
Improved our design process by introducing Storybook as a technique to bring our React components closer to our Sketch designs
Collaborated with product managers and designers to deliver new features written in React for our cross-platform browser extension product
Introduced AVA as a replacement for Mocha to maintain 100% test coverage for the repositories I worked in and delivered a test website written in React to help our QA team automate more involved tests
Helped recruit other engineers at career fairs and served as an interviewer for prospective full stack candidates
Outreached with the LA Javascript community to bring technical meetups such as SoCal React to Honey
Technologies: Node.js, React, GraphQL, Javascript, Docker, MySQL, Google Cloud Platform
2017 — 2017
Greater Los Angeles Area
Delivered a custom fields project that enabled programmatic creation of custom form flows for employers on Workpop.
Technologies: React, Node.js, GraphQL, Apollo, Meteor, MongoDB, MySQL, Docker, Kubernetes
Education
University of California, Berkeley