2024 — Now
New York, New York, United States
Build and operate highly distributed messaging infrastructure supporting 3B+ users across Instagram and Facebook/Messenger.
Delivered $5M+ in annualized infrastructure savings through cross-stack efficiency and storage/capacity optimizations.
Led large-scale deprecation of cross-app interoperability chats across Instagram and Facebook, coordinating 20+ engineers and driving safe global rollout.
Designed and shipped a traffic/queue-placement optimization system (“Continuous Rebalancer”), delivering $1.14M/year OpEx savings and ~70ms p90 latency improvements for messaging server-to-server traffic (with additional end-to-end latency wins).
Contributed core backend infrastructure work to multi-year modernization efforts migrating IG messaging onto a newer stack, including Django offloading and reliability improvements.
Drove reliability and engineering excellence initiatives (incident review, design review, product-engineering office hours, Better Engineering), reducing operational burden and unblocking product teams.
Top-tier production operator: consistently ~95th percentile incident/SEV contribution; recognized as a top collaborator with #2 in peer “#thanks” volume across a 250+ engineer org.
Mentored and onboarded multiple engineers; managed an intern to successful delivery/return offer and supported 5 additional interns through reviews, debugging, and architecture guidance.
Built community beyond day-to-day work: organized 12 NYC soup kitchen volunteer events engaging 50+ coworkers.
2022 — 2024
New York, New York, United States
2021 — 2022
New York, New York, United States
Developed features in a business critical application used by over 600K restaurants to process millions of orders a day. Implemented new features in an external API used by hundreds of partner integrations.
Rewrote 45+ endpoints used by the Orders app from a legacy Node.js architecture to Golang, resulting in an average of 50% reduction in p99 latency, decrease in error rates, and dozens of cores saved.
Presented in weekly knowledge shares, created a script for auto-generation of alerts in our web applications and worked on documentation that helped new engineers onboard.
Decommissioned and rewrote a legacy user facing React 15 application in modern stack, clearing long-standing technical debt and a big pain point for engineers across 7 product teams.
2019 — 2021
New York, New York, United States
Redesigned user accounts for restaurants, decreasing onboarding complexity and support costs.
Launched a new mobile application for restaurants providing real-time notifications for status updates, increasing average restaurant online rate by 5%. Used by 20K+ users daily.
2018 — 2018
New York, New York, United States
Launched a new version of a menu building web application for restaurants.
Made various contributions to other web applications in the restaurant space including a critical internal tool for managing restaurant operations that was used by thousands of employees daily.
Education
2014 — 2019
University of Waterloo
Bachelor's degree
2014 — 2019
2010 — 2014
FHCI
High School Diploma
2010 — 2014