Experience
2024 — Now
2024 — Now
United States
Core Platform Engineering: Helped scale Galileo’s infrastructure and engineering culture during a period of rapid growth.
* Architect and main developer behind Agent Control: https://agentcontrol.dev/
* Defined and enforced best practices for Python performance, helping drive down latencies and costs
* Built a client-side router for LLM inference, boosting utilization by 40% and cutting tail latency by 70%. https://galileo.ai/blog/how-we-boosted-gpu-utilization-by-40-with-redis-lua
* Created and open-sourced gcache, a product engineer friendly caching framework - https://github.com/rungalileo/gcache
* Built an internal load-testing framework to catch performance regressions
2025 — 2025
2025 — 2025
San Francisco Bay Area
2019 — 2024
2024 — 2024
2024 — 2024
San Francisco Bay Area
Helping Safety Systems team deliver safe AI products.
â—Ź ChatGPT: Developed model refusals and disclaimers around US elections and high-profile current events:
â—‹ https://bit.ly/4chwHRH
â—‹ https://openai.com/index/how-openai-is-approaching-2024-worldwide-elections
â—Ź Learned PySpark to create and optimize pipelines trawling through many terabytes of data, as well as for
some internal dataset analysis tools
â—Ź Optimized GPU-heavy jobs by 10x
â—Ź Helped with voice mode launch: https://bit.ly/4dv45WJ
2021 — 2023
2021 — 2023
San Francisco Bay Area
Helped the DashPass team (~25 people) scale by spearheading the adoption of new technologies and best practices. Developed tech vision and led the transformation of a hard-to-maintain codebase into a modular, scalable platform. Helped other teams scale by standardizing and providing solutions for caching.
* Integrated Cadence to streamline partnership integrations, expediting the financial partnership process. https://doordash.engineering/2022/05/18/enabling-faster-financial-partnership-integrations-using-cadence/
* Adopted a functional testing framework to improve code coverage and software quality. https://doordash.engineering/2022/11/01/how-to-boost-code-coverage-with-functional-testing/
* Established and refined key engineering processes including on-call protocols, design reviews, coding standards, and architectural guidelines.
* Led a multi-quarter initiative to re-architect DashPass's core business logic into a plug-in-based platform, significantly enhancing engineering speed, code quality, and system reliability.
* Developed a robust, multi-layered caching library in Kotlin to optimize DashPass's backend performance, a solution later adopted across multiple teams and services within DoorDash. https://bit.ly/47SzdM9
Education
Ohio University
Bachelor of Science
Ohio University