As a Software Engineer at Instagram, I contribute to the development of Reels Monetization by leveraging my expertise in Android and software development. My work involves creating innovative solutions to enhance user experiences on the platform.

2024 — NowInstagramSoftware Engineer, Android

2024 — Now

United States

Instagram Wearables Display and Instagram Reels Monetization

2022 — 2024LinkedInAndroid Engineer

2022 — 2024

Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

Messaging on the LinkedIn Android app

Integrated MessagingSDK to Android, leading to the unification of messaging

Added the Opt-In/Opt-Out for Focused Inbox which allowed GDPR compliance and resulted in the EU launch of the Focused Inbox feature

Lead Conversation Starter Ads in for revenue mitigation caused by Focused Inbox

Added Starring to messaging, which lets users star important conversations

A/B test each project to choose the version that gives the best outcome

Android Accessibility champion - ensure messaging is accessibility compliant

Lead the implementation of the improved inbox with various filter pills and folder

Written in Kotlin and Java and uses Coroutine, Flow, and LiveData with clean architecture and MVVM

2021 — 2022One DropAndroid Engineer

2021 — 2022

Worked on the One Drop android app

The app is built in Kotlin and follows an MVP architecture.

RxJava was used within the app for reactive programming and is used with Retrofit for REST calls

2019 — 2020AllstateFull Stack Software Engineer

2019 — 2020

Working in an XP team on Allstate’s Extended Vehicle Care web application. (https://extendedcare.allstate.com)

The application uses React with Redux for the front-end which runs on a node.js server with express, and Java and Spring for the backend.

Jest and Spock are used for testing.

The application integrates with various internal and external services.

In addition to working on the main app, lead the effort to:

1. Created an Admin app which resulted in the business being able to update data used in the

application without the dev team, resulting in saved effort and quicker results updates for the

business.

2. Lead the ownership transfer of dealer widget from the Rapid Prototyping Team

The widget is essential a dynamic ad on a dealer’s website

The widgets are served with Scality and are served as an iframe

2019 — 2019AllstateJunior Backend Engineer

2019 — 2019

Charlotte, North Carolina

Maintained and extended abilities for Allstate’s Experimentation Platform (essentially A/B testing) created using Java and Spring Boot.

Lead the effort to:

1. Move the application from Spring security to enterprise security which resulted in an easier

onboarding process

2. Get more feedback from the user which resulted in more clients for the application.

3. Improved the response time of the application which resulted in the enterprise email service

using the application.

4. Advocated for test driven development within the team that resulted in improved code quality.

The application mainly used Oracle for storing data and Hibernate is used as an ORM

Education

North Carolina State University

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Education

Bachelor of Science - BS