- Senior Software Engineer with experience at Google, leading large-scale, serverless data infrastructure projects.
- Tech Lead for next-gen Dataproc Metastore — re-architected to Cloud Run, cut infra costs 72%, boosted latency 55%, and improved system resilience.
Technical Lead for the architecture and redesign of the next-generation Dataproc Metastore: a fully managed, highly available, multi-regional, auto-healing serverless metastore supporting Apache Hadoop ecosystem workloads.
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Re-architected both control and data planes from GKE to Cloud Run, moving our service to a serverless deployment.
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Reduced infrastructure costs by 72% and improved startup latency by 55% while enhancing scalability and reliability.
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Ensured full feature parity between legacy and serverless systems, adapting 8 years of prior feature work to new, serverless acrchitecture, enabling seamless transitions for customers.
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Designed and executed zero-downtime migrations, with no impact to production workloads.
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Cut inactionable oncall alerts by 88%, improving operational efficiency and team productivity.
BigLake Metastore & Iceberg REST Catalog
Contributed to the development of BigLake Metastore: a unified, serverless metadata platform that connects Cloud Storage and BigQuery data to engines like Apache Spark, Apache Flink, and BigQuery SQL.
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Delivered features enabling cross-engine metadata interoperability via the Apache Iceberg REST catalog.
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Helped establish a single source of truth for Iceberg data, improving consistency and discoverability across compute engines.
Built and maintained entire full stack features involving frontend (Javascript, Typescript, React), to backend and API layer (Python, Flask, SQLAlchemy, Django)
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Owned features from technical design and architecture through scoping and implementation
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Managed teams of up to four engineers as a technical lead and IC on mission critical projects
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Architected services which led to improving user engagement by 26%
Developed components of web based application, requiring state management (Redux, etc), and implemented a complete overhaul of UX based on customer needs.
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Designed and implemented backend REST API to send and process map data and render as a 3D model
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Developed a component-based frontend framework to automate and reduce new website and feature development time as much as 80%, while ensuring feature consistency.
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Migrated codebase from a predominately Javascript/React web app to a TypeScript/React web app, hosted on AWS
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Used AWS EC2 instances to implement test deploys with remote access
Used VBA and Python to design, analyze, and deploy CE applications adopted company-wide
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Performed technical analysis with civil engineering software for various projects including the $1 billion G.S. Warriors Arena (Chase Center), and $1.6 billion Oceanwide Center
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Updated outdated technology stacks for more efficient analysis/design tools
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Conveyed technical calculations and data to clients to assist in informed design, scheduling, and budgeting
Education
2016 — 2017
University of California, Berkeley
Master of Science (M.S.)
2016 — 2017
2011 — 2016
California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo
