AT&T (June 2019 - Present)

(May 2022 - Present)

Built Golang microservices supporting Direct Ad Insertion into the DirecTV streaming platform to provide more consistent delivery of targeted advertisements to live TV viewers. Tech stack: Golang

(August 2020 - May 2022)

Built pipelines using AWS Glue and EMR Spark jobs that source from s3 buckets and couchbase instances to provide near real-time data on set top box viewership activity, ad delivery performance, and set top box targeting data, collating and presenting billions of rows of incoming data each day into usable data for AT&T’s ad sales team. Implemented multiple AWS Glue workflows, deployed using Cloudformation scripts, that coordinate glue triggers, jobs, and crawlers into scheduled processes to keep the datalake current. Tech Stack: AWS Glue | AWS EMR | Apache Spark | AWS Athena | Tableau | Spring Boot | SQL Server | AWS Cloudformation

(September 2019 - August 2020)

Built and managed Ad Data Security Manager (ADSM) to coordinate user profile data and ad campaign

information to deliver targeted ads to 15 million Set Top Box users and obfuscate personally identifying

information stored in the cloud, leveraging Spring Batch and Couchbase. Tech Stack: Spring Boot | Spring Batch | Couchbase

(June 2019 - September 2019)

Engineered a RESTful Spring Boot API for Adapt, the AT&T’s ad request service for streamed

VOD content to set top boxes. API returns network ids for a given media to deliver better

targeted advertisements. Using Couchbase as a quick access NoSQL database for caching and returning data, the Adapt Network Decorator API returns data 15 times faster than the current solution, while

maintaining high consistency using customized eviction policies. Tech Stacks: Spring Boot | Couchbase

Sony Pictures Entertainment (June 2015 - June 2019)

• Developed and enhanced a license distribution and management system called Revenue

Pipeline Management, a large enterprise web application for the Sony Pictures Television

International and Domestic Distribution sales teams.

• Increased efficiency by 75% for an excel upload process that persisted movie sales plan data.

Achieved through overall code maintenance and caching.

• Improved load times by 60% of contractual product information via Ehcache.

• Designed, built, and tested the Media Licensing Rights generation module, which

determines the contract structure for all Sony distribution deals. Converted a legacy PL/SQL

stored procedure into a fully Java solution backed by a cleaner Test-Driven Development

process.

• Developed generic HTTP PATCH request handler to for easy integration of future patch

requests throughout the application.

• Led team building a new material distribution system using RESTful Spring Boot

microservices. leveraged Spring Data JPA, REST APIs, and Mapstruct for concise and

maintainable code.

• Implemented automatic triggering off material distribution system to send information to

material delivery system, via ActiveMQ.

I designed an experimental research project to determine nutrient distribution in Pseudomonas aeruginosa swarms, finding that limited dispersal of public goods holds in the presence of motile bacteria. Using MATLAB, I developed a novel analysis process for monitoring fluorescence levels in bacterial swarms to better understand particle distribution. I also identified novel colony interactions in mutant strains of P. aeruginosa, promoting further research questions on swarm fluid characteristics.

Assisting in the construction of an adaptive optics system (an instrument that removes atmospheric aberrations) for Pomona's 1m telescope. This is a 3 year project. We currently have a fully operational system on which we can begin to do scientific observation. See the Publications section below.