2024 — NowSquareSoftware Engineering Manager

2024 — Now

Oakland, California, United States

2022 — 2024SquareStaff Software Engineer

2022 — 2024

Oakland, California, United States

2020 — 2022SquareSenior Software Engineer

2020 — 2022

San Francisco Bay Area

2017 — 2020NextdoorSoftware Engineer

2017 — 2020

San Francisco, California

Developed Business Posts, a product allowing businesses to create content in Neighborhood feeds. Architected and implemented backend infrastructure allowing the brand new content type and targeting approach to work seamlessly with the existing Newsfeed infrastructure. (Python)

Re-architected and implemented business on-boarding flow to simplify business onboarding experience and modernize architecture to React. Improved the completion rate of the signup flow from 30% to 60%. (React, ES6)

Managed Agency Android app launch for government agency partners.Was responsible for communicating status updates, estimating complexity of tasks, and managing expectations of stakeholders, including Head of Engineering. (Kotlin)

Ideated, implemented, and advocated for Kindness Reminder hackathon project as part of cross-disciplinary team which was later implemented in production and launched globally. (React, ES6)

2015 — 2017GoogleSoftware Engineer

2015 — 2017

Mountain View

Worked on two teams as part of Google's Engineering Residency program:

1) Project Highlight (Google Search Engagement)

Developed a search result card showcasing partner-generated images on the Google Search page. The product was used by high-fashion partners including Kanye West, Prada, and Marc Jacobs and increased Fashion Week traffic by 66%.

Discovered and implemented fixes to streamline backend architecture. Brought test-coverage up to 90%.

Technologies Used: Java, HTML, CSS, JSlayout

2) Blockly

Independently designed, implemented, and launched an alternative UI library for Blockly to aid blind and visually-impaired users. (Demo: http://bit.ly/2eIhOwz). AccessibleBlockly allows block-based programming environments like ScratchBlocks, Lego Mindstorms, and Code.org to create a blind-accessible UI for their users.

Technologies used: HTML, CSS, Angular

Education

2011 — 2015

University of California, Berkeley

Bachelor’s Degree

2011 — 2015

2007 — 2011

Mira Loma High School

International Baccalaureate Diploma

2007 — 2011

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Education

Bachelor’s Degree

International Baccalaureate Diploma