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Experience
2024 — Now
2024 — Now
New York City Metropolitan Area
• Successfully launched Spanish (Spain), Korean, and Brazilian Portuguese for in-product localization, resulting in over $1 million in ARR 6 months after release
• Contributed efforts towards localizing the Figma Community experience, including developing localized sitemaps for high value pages, resulting in 150+% in international user growth
• Developed a linting solution to target untranslated string literals in the UI, reducing untranslated string issues by 33%, and saving numerous IDDs from bug fixes.
2023 — 2024
2023 — 2024
Los Angeles, California, United States
2023 — 2023
2023 — 2023
New York City Metropolitan Area
• Overhauled the education plan (EDU) sign-up form by integrating additional verification questions with React, and validating entries with a Ruby/Sinatra API, increasing friction for dishonest users, and reducing ineligible sign-ups by 50%
• Modified the existing EDU data model to track plan types (Initial 2-year or recurring 1-year plan) in order to calculate expiration date, enabling EDU plans to automatically expire and save over $1 million in ARR
• Developed a daily asynchronous service in Ruby/Sinatra to notify 1000+ users of impending EDU account expiration via email, along with re-enabling the EDU plan sign-up form for re-verification
• Delivered an additional change to add a sharing attribution query to proto file URLs, enabling data scientists to see the sharer of a URL, allowing them to analyze trends regarding file-sharing behavior
• Ordered 5 diet cokes for breakfast every day through the internal meal ordering tool
2022 — 2023
2022 — 2023
Los Angeles, California, United States
• Led weekly lab sessions to teach students on C++ programming topics such as debugging with gdb/valgrind, pointers, class hierarchies and object-oriented design.
• Held weekly office hours to guide student understanding of lecture material and programming assignments, including advanced topics like recursion and linked-lists.
• Reported kids who used ChatGPT on their midterms 💀.
2022 — 2022
2022 — 2022
Menlo Park, California, United States
• Developed a dynamic pricing system, with Hack (PHP) to be used by 100,000+ products, which automatically changes the price of a product based on demand
• Modified the billing code to track the current number of active quotes, effectively using it as a proxy for demand, and created a new data model for a dynamic pricing strategy, connecting it to the existing digital product infrastructure
• Enhanced the onboarding API to allow 50,000+ creators to set dynamic pricing strategies for their digital products, enabling them to optimize revenue potential and offer flexible pricing options to customers
• Delivered an additional change to support auto purchase retries and refunds in the event of a billing processing failure for non-consumable products
• Ate free lunch and dinner at the office everyday
Education
University of Southern California