Wing (an Alphabet company) builds fully-autonomous drone delivery systems. We're now rapidly expanding this cutting-edge service to new markets. I lead the Perception Software Infrastructure team, where we create robust, intelligent computer vision systems for critical functions like navigation, obstacle avoidance, and precision landing.

I worked on Street View for my summer internship at Google. My project involved predicting the best place to look in panoramas. I used computer vision and machine learning techniques to build a set of classes to solve the problem. The project was really perfect for me, since I love computer vision, machine learning, maps, and photography. It also fit very well with my doctoral research which involves predicting where people look in images.

Most of my work was done in C++ and I made use of many internal Google technologies. For example, I used MapReduce to distribute work on large datasets and Bigtable to cache results. I also used JavaScript to build an interactive demo of my product. In the end, I had a multithreaded production-ready product.

There were plenty of other opportunities I was able to take advantage of at Google. I filed a patent, found and fixed bugs in other products, and provided feedback on unreleased products. I also met many people that inspired and encouraged me. I definitely learned a lot about writing high-quality tested code to work at scale.

My primary responsibility over the summer was to refactor a customer-facing feature to fix bugs, improve security, and better organize the code. I had to go down many paths before finally finding the best solution, but in the end, I was proud of the work that went in the release. Along the way, I learned a lot about agile development, testing, and the varied responsibilities of a software developer.

Thanks to the well-designed intern program at Lithium, I also discovered other roles in the company. I had the opportunity to mock up some UX designs for a scalable multi-phase web staging back end, then present iterations to the UX team for feedback. I regularly interacted with different team members to get their perspective, and I met executives from Engineering, Human Resources, and Marketing. I even made a sales pitch video that was shown in front of the entire international sales staff!

Furthermore, getting to live in San Francisco was an eye opening experience. I gained new perspectives by attending talks, meetups, and by visiting colleagues at other companies. The coffee wasn't half bad, either! It's hard to believe how much I learned in just under two months.

Focused on using software to improve efficiency. Utilized QuickBooks for Mac and NRGship UPS shipping software for Mac. Filmed, edited, and produced a DVD of the manufacturing process. Designed software to better communicate priorities to the manufacturers.

Monitor server alerts, solve problems remotely, website maintenance. Worked with Microsoft Exchange, Symantec Backup Exec, Symantec Endpoint Security, Ipswitch WhatsUp, and other common server-side applications.