I’m a product-minded software engineer with 10+ years of experience building scalable systems that shape user experience and behavior.
My work sits at the intersection of backend engineering, data, and product strategy, where I design the infrastructure behind search, discovery, and personalization.
Led backend engineering for core search and discovery surfaces during company-wide app redesign, delivering recommendation shuffling, freshness ranking, new home feed architecture, multi-media support, advanced filtering, autocomplete, and ML model integrations
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Built experimentation and ranking frameworks integrating OpenSearch, real-time ML inference, and service APIs, improving relevance, content diversity, user engagement, and system resilience
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Designed and operated scalable personalization data pipelines (Airflow, AWS: S3, Lambda, Redshift)
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Co-led cross-functional ML modernization with Data Science to productionize user embedding based
models
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Standardized on call operations for 16 engineers, reduced MTTR through PagerDuty playbooks and
POC in the design, implementation, and deployment of custom request queue for integrations between services, enabling a simpler communication between CRM and micro service back end.
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Led cross team effort to design and document a large database migration and API rework serving all of Tableau’s registration data.
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Designed and rebuilt the engine behind a document builder tool informing client Sales team with up to date registrations and keys data.
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Troubleshot and improved Tableau’s extensive Identity platform allowing for zero down time for various client Tableau team needs. Utilized AWS, Splunk, Auth0, Java, Python
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Passionate advocate of documentation, demos and pairing sessions to increase team collaboration.
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Acted as stand in Scrum master to guide team planning, stand up, demos, and retrospectives.
Developed a modular implementation of Expedia’s Global Customer Operations tool automating traveler and agent experiences that power over 100 million interactions each year.
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Collaborated with groups across the company including Expedia Partner Central and Expedia Affiliate Network to fulfill this promise.
