Experience
2026 — Now
Building a reliable, high-quality ML serving and data platform that creates accurate and transparent pricing guidance and features. Enabling rapid model deployment and experimentation across Airbnb.
2021 — 2026
San Francisco, California
Backend engineering on the Pricing and Availability Platform team.
• Rearchitecture: Completed a multi-year overhaul of Pricing & Availability, scaling to 100K+ QPS and improving scalability/reliability via Lambda architecture, read-optimized storage, and precomputed views.
• Partner APIs: Defined external API strategy (e.g., Trivago), introducing simplified batch APIs and isolated environments to reduce latency and protect core systems.
• Distributed locking: Built a real-time distributed locking system for checkout, preventing double bookings with 99.99% availability.
• Optimization: Improved pricing library indexing performance through selective statefulness, reducing infrastructure costs.
2019 — 2021
2019 — 2021
San Francisco, California, United States
Backend and Android engineering on the Identity team of the Trust organization.
2015 — 2019
2015 — 2019
San Francisco, California
Backend and web frontend engineering in the Benefits team, owning company and employee health benefit management apps.
• Built an end-to-end recommendation system to assist new business clients with selecting health plans to offer, spanning a backend recommendation engine and a frontend comparison and enrollment flow.
Standardized state management throughout our React frontend application by migrating from an ad hoc paradigm to Redux.
Infrastructure engineering in the Developer Experience team, owning continuous integration, backend application libraries, and database tooling.
• Modernized our Javascript test suite by integrating it with Jest. This improved frontend developer efficiency through newly available features such as watch mode and concise snapshot testing.
Developed Migrant, a Go application enabling online (no-downtime) MySQL schema changes via binlog monitoring.
2015 — 2015
2015 — 2015
San Francisco, California
Education
Rice University