• First full-time software engineering hire; built foundational systems, tooling, and engineering culture supporting the company's growth to date

• Established company-wide engineering best practices including code review processes, CI/CD pipelines, and development workflows

• Introduced serverless architecture using AWS Lambda, improving scalability and reducing infrastructure overhead

• Co-led a cross-functional team of 7 (PM, 4 engineers, marketing, support ops) as lead engineer on the residential product

• Designed a smart charging system for residential electric vehicles, coordinating charging schedules with grid signals and customer preferences

• Designed and shipped a battery-based Virtual Power Plant managing >2 MW of distributed storage, reducing customer bills by over 10 percent per month

• Led migration to new tech-enabled EDI vendor, enabling automation of labor-intensive manual ops tasks

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• Led a team of 4 engineers integrating intelligent features into the Webex portfolio, including Webex Assistant for Rooms — deployed to thousands of enterprise conference rooms

• Drove post-acquisition integration of MindMeld technology into Cisco, onboarding teams across the organization to the conversational AI platform

• Developed extensibility framework empowering customers to add custom functionality for their Webex Assistant deployments

• Contributed to open-sourcing the MindMeld conversational framework, making enterprise-grade NLP tooling publicly available

Lead development core "MindMeld" conversational interface framework. Designed and developed data annotation interface to speed up annotated data retrieval. Worked with Fortune 500 customers to develop conversational interfaces (voice and text) for their content.