I love coding.
Experience
2025 — Now
2025 — Now
San Francisco, California, United States
Member of the New Products team to bootstrap the frontend, backend and CI/CD pipelines to transform a debt management tool from a prototype to initial public launch in under three months
Pivot the debt management tool to generate personalized payoff plans with optimized payment schedules and refinance opportunities, contributing to organically signed loans through public entry points such as the landing page and site header
Delivered a new student loan refinance calculator to help users compare current loan terms with potential new loan options helping drive incremental monthly loan volume
2020 — 2023
2020 — 2023
Mountain View, California, United States
Tech lead for the Retention team under the Growth organization to help improve the experience on LinkedIn for infrequent members
Lead a group of API/Android/iOS/Web engineers on system design and implementation, helped define project roadmap and regularly provided updates on timeline with stakeholders to create a new landing page that allows members to explore career insights based on job title and location
Served as a primary owner of the Network Conversations email which is one of the top volume emails at LinkedIn and a major driver of WAU focused on the showing the most relevant in-network and out-of-network posts for a given user
Proposed and implemented infrastructure in the email pipeline to provide template variables that can be accessed by any email campaign for copy testing by Product and Marketing that lead to an increase in open rate, click-through rate and engagement
Build email and corresponding landing experience to help members explore next steps in career path by viewing posts, connections and jobs related to members in roles with higher seniority
Worked with members from Engineering, Data Science and SRE to mitigate the churn of war rooms by creating a data visualization tool to help identify the root cause of site issues and dips in core metrics
Participated in a working group to reduce the amount of JS errors on LinkedIn by 20% by fixing product and infrastructure errors, improving tooling to diagnose issues and providing guidance to teams on how to triage
As part of the Linting Task Force, helped create a dashboard that was updated daily to show the amount of JS linting warnings/errors/overrides across the LinkedIn flagship application which lead to a company wide initiative to reduce the amount of JS linting errors to zero
Mentor-mentee relationship which included co-workers at LinkedIn, colleagues from other companies and students from SJSU
2016 — 2020
2016 — 2020
Mountain View, Ca
Jumped back into a individual contributor role to focus more on code architecture, engineering specs and front-end development
Part of on-call rotation to help monitor product metrics, analyze real-time sensors and shepherd builds to staging/production environments
Worked with Google Chrome team to integrate Smart Lock on sign-in and sign-up pages for LinkedIn which was featured at Google I/O 2016
Achieved alignment and support from consumer and infrastructure teams to build a new module that would appear on all pages on LinkedIn for new and novice users that would help them update their profile information, make connections and follow topics they may be interested in
Collaborated with product, marketing and engineering to launch a campaign to celebrate LinkedIn's 500 Million members milestone
Wrote unit tests for JavaScript functionality, integration tests for page rendering and acceptance tests for user interaction on LinkedIn's flagship desktop and mobile web application
2014 — 2016
2014 — 2016
Mountain View, CA
Stepped into a new role where I balanced being a manager for the front-end developers on my team along with keeping my coding chops up to par
Helped lead the effort to redesign the user interface and code architecture of the registration and onboarding experience on LinkedIn on desktop and mobile web
Worked with external teams on how to run experiments, suggestions for site speed improvements, considerations as we ramp in international markets and how to adhere to accessibility standards as the registration and onboarding experience transformed from a product to a platform
Contributed to the redesign of the homepage by building the address book import and endorsements promos in the feed
Took a 3-day Ember Training course with Erik Bryn in March 2015
Created a new guest homepage to make sure sign-in and sign-ups as well as phone/captcha challenges worked accordingly in all languages and subdomains
Met with product, engineering and design counterparts regularly to discuss timelines, resource allocations and team cadence
Participated in sprint planning sessions to reflect on what was done in the previous sprint and to make sure bandwidth was allocated accordingly throughout the team for the next sprint
2013 — 2014
2013 — 2014
Mountain View, CA
Moved to the Onboarding team where we focused on helping new and novice members find value in LinkedIn by making connections, finding topics they are interested in and building a brand for themselves
Part of a team that owned a product that served as a recommendation system to show modules based on business rules and relevant models that powered different flows throughout LinkedIn
Volunteered to help the Employee Experience team build internal sites that included stories of random acts of kindness, a photo library capturing the culture of LinkedIn and even a company wide desk decorating competition
Education
University of California, Berkeley