• Served as Incident Manager On Call (IMOC) in a two-quarter rotational program

• Proposed & implemented solution to backend feature flagging in core framework, used by 40+ services & presented to company in tech talk

• Proposed & implemented automatic distributed tracing improvement across ~2.2k microservices, presented in tech talk

Tour of Duty:

• Contributed to ~⅓ of the 2024 Time-To-Interactivity (TTI) improvements

• Co-led TTI feature flag fetching improvements: implemented Zstandard compression with shared dictionaries in app, engine, CDN and backend. Achieved 90% payload reduction, resulting in up to 700ms p95 improvement on Android, 1s p95 on macOS, and 1s p95 on iOS & Windows.

Creator > Content Understanding Platform Team:

• Tech Lead for Content Search, spearheaded 2-quarter re-architect coordinating 6 teams.

* 50-60% decrease in search latency (p99 250-500ms improvement)

* Reduced operational cost (collapsed 18 services to 3)

* Reduced experimentation setup from 1-2 weeks to 1-2 days

* Upheld high quality bar: linter-enforced style guide, 100% line coverage, isolated CI tests, rollout integration testing, automated canary testing, smoke alarms

• Built agentic content interrogation workflows with Temporal

Creator > Store Team:

• Shipped vector semantic search (~8.5% increase in search metrics); proposed & implemented ML blending + re-ranking algorithms

• Sped up CI/CD by ~30x, migrated Drone to GHA

• Rewrote data pipelines in Airflow2, reducing runtime ~7x; later migrated to Tecton

• Restored team services following 3 day outage

• Researched & implemented algorithm to surface trending results

• Successfully migrated backend search infra with 0 downtime or parity issues

• Increased indexer speed by ~50x (async & timeout tuning, DB bottlenecks, scaling)

• Architected & implemented a system to react to safety events across Roblox (e.g. getting banned) by reindexing their creations to keep Creator Marketplace safe, coordinating 3 teams

Founded an online learning platform for Electrical Engineering and Computer Science courses

• Implemented backend and frontend using Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, GraphQL, React, Apollo, CSS Modules, and Heroku

• Deployed an adaptive bitrate video streaming solution via AWS Elemental Media Services, and HTTP Live Streaming

• Delivered a smooth user experience by devising a custom video player with thumbnail seeking in React

Update: due to time and money constraints, the service is temporarily paused

• Created security, efficiency, and functionality patches to the Autograder (used by ~4600 students per semester across a dozen classes)

• Student well-being czar; Responsible for organizing roster and grade data to send weekly emails to ~1200 students to encourage them to stay on track

• Directed an asynchronous lab section for 33 students

• Published Claw, a CLI tool to assist staff in debugging student code during Office Hours quickly and accurately

• Assisted in the development of ENGR100 Section 960, a new course at UofM for Fall 2020 with remote offering due to COVID-19

• Roles included web development for marketing to first year students, course syllabus planning, and lab development

• Led lab sections of ~25 students, answering questions in class, holding office hours, and grading students

• Assisted in reworking portions of the course to be online-friendly for the COVID-19 University response

• Completed training provided by the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching at UofM. Attended ongoing professional development workshops