Tech lead for Airbnb’s web listing detail pages across Stays, Experiences, and Services

Data Science & Engineering

Central Data Organization - Data Acquisition and Engineering

Global Quantitative Strategies

— Architected and prototyped distributed web data acquisition platform

— Collaborated on schema migration system for use with SQL Server and Vertica

— Designed and built custom UI for internal dataset credential management system

Engineer on the Data Insights team providing business intelligence for Data Group services (SQL Server, HDInsight, Azure Search, DocDB, and others)

— Proposed idea to management, developed prototype, and secured director approval for new user-facing product leveraging team’s existing back-end ML infrastructure

— Mentored intern with limited related experience and oversaw project from inception to delivery of a product being used daily by teams across the Data Group

— Team subject-matter expert for front-end and Azure Search (hosted Elasticsearch); Contributed to and advised multiple projects as well as gave presentations

— Owned and architected front-end of platform that analyzes sentiment and topics across social channels (e.g. StackOverflow) for Data Group services and their competitors

— Microsoft Patent Award—Filed patent (https://patents.google.com/patent/US9898457B1) as a co-inventor for a proprietary NLP machine learning system to detect and separate code from text;

— Created a reusable visualization system by integrating the open-source charting library NVD3 into AngularJS directives and used it to create various dashboards for Data Group teams, allowing them to analyze and react to their business data

— PM for first four months on SQL Server build system focused on streamlining the gated check-in system as well as improving the proprietary Visual Studio check-in extension

Worked with small team to develop Moonlyt.com, an online tutoring site with nearly 500 tutors and over 700 total users

— Led development of a proprietary collaborative whiteboard using HTML5 canvas along with Node.js and Socket.io; Implemented a multi-stack client-side system to allow synchronized undoing and redoing of each user’s changes

— Headed implementation of introduction videos on user profiles using YouTube API

— Led streamlining of user signup by creating feature to auto-fill information from their LinkedIn profiles using the LinkedIn API

Studied psychopaths, aggression, and impulsivity

— Acted as a confederate in an aggression study, pretending to be a fellow participant in order to serve as a control

— Compiled phenotypic data and brain images from open database to test relation between brain structure and impulsivity