I help the teams that surface recommended content on Max:

• guide collaboration across different orgs and continents

• uplevel the engineering process: gradually introduce best-practices and rigor

• communicate engineering realities to set realistic stakeholder expectations

• project planning and sequencing; tactical decision making around launching and iterating

• growing the leadership team

From October 2021 until March 2023, I worked in YouTube Trust and Safety. This role involved technical architecture, approach-setting, mentorship, and little bits of implementation and production support.

From October 2020 until 2021, I worked in Google Search. My area involved gathering certain types of data from various web-scale databases, and summarizing it into a measure of world-wide web health. Mostly C++ and Flume (Google's version of Spark).

From January 2016 until October 2020, I worked on YouTube TV, in API frontend development. Notable projects include:

• Rewriting the entire API system in C++ from Python, in a team of 30, while:

• decreasing per-query cost by 50%

• increasing software maintainability

• mentoring other engineers in the intricacies of legacy software migrations (they are tricky)

• participating in hiring and other citizenship activities

• Developed system cross-authentication: this is why you can log in to HBO Max using your YouTube TV account.

• Developed and built the API for sports lenses: if you look on the watch page during a sports event, you will see stats, scores, key plays, and other useful information. This updates in real time, and won a technical Emmy, and makes baseball more interesting.

Responsibilities range from data modeling, business logic, distributed processing, and data compression to Pub/Sub messaging, system insights, and data diagnostics.

Designed and built the YouTube Kids application on Android, and worked in a team of 3-5 on the iOS application. I helped add several features our users asked for, such as the ability to block content, which makes me happy because delivering features to users is what this is all about. Also worked on client-facing APIs to match backend data providing to client consumption.

I worked on the applications you see when you use Google Glass, specifically real time video calls. This was all Android app work, with JNI and some lower level work in addition to the app itself.