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Experience
2023 — Now
Palo Alto, California, United States
• Launched both robotaxi and optimus at the “We, Robot” launch day
• Lead engineer for Tesla's robotics products. Specifically the connectivity backbone, backend telemetry services, motion capture systems, firmware updating processes, remote access services, intervention services, and video streaming systems.
• Founded and led the remote tele-operation team
• Designed and built the VR video streaming system featured in many optimus videos
• Architected all of the kubernetes clusters used by autopilot and robotic backends
• Oncall for Autopilot's telemetry services
• Most of my work is still under NDA for the robotics and robotaxi portion of this role
2020 — 2023
Palo Alto, California, United States
• Built the device telemetry services that tesla’s products still use.
• Developed and managed our current service and device public key infrastructure (PKI) -- including the systems related to factory issuance, validation, renewal, and revocation
• Lead oncall for all backend services that the vehicle, mobile clients and factory provisioning stations communicate with.
• Designed and built the current cloud and on-prem infrastructure for kafka, kubernetes, prometheus, cortex (monitoring), cert-manager (certificate management), and some CICD.
• Architected numerous backend services including the core telemetry systems and the supercharger availability services (among others!).
• Expanded our services to a full, multi-region (including China!), globally distributed infrastructure with high availability (previously a single colocation datacenter).
• Hired, trained, and mentored all SRE interns + some full time engineers.
2018 — 2020
2018 — 2020
San Francisco, California, United States
• DevOps engineer for Firebase Realtime Database, Cloud Firestore, Cloud Storage for Firebase, Firebase Rules, Firebase Authentication and another unannounced project.
• Lead the feature development of Firebase Rules: A fully-managed authorization & data validation language with compiler, runtime and distributed serving.
• Lead the development of Firebase Authentication on different platforms.
• Lead the development of an external monitoring system for Firebase BaaS customers.
• Launched numerous customer tools for our development ecosystem.
2015 — 2018
2015 — 2018
Provo, Utah
Worked on optically measuring coherence times of electron spins in various materials as possible qubit candidates.
2015 — 2016
2015 — 2016
Provo, Utah
Education
Brigham Young University