Driving engineering initiatives to improve reliability, availability, cloud costs, and compliance for Confluent Cloud’s Kafka.

• Helped customers learn about their users: Created automated predictive modelling of user behavior, and detecting interesting user cohorts.

• Increased visibility of Mixpanel’s analysis products by building a mailbox service to store, aggregate, prioritize, and deliver timely notifications.

• Rewrote backend services to improve requests latency by an order of magnitude, while reducing the fleet size, to achieve a significant reduction in cloud costs.

• Built a custom HTTP mesh proxy to enable asynchronous RPCs between backend services, backpressure and throttling controls, and better monitoring and observability.

Scaled critical services for training, inference, entity detection, graph traversal, trending news detection and user analytics.

Made Cemmerce ready for launching their ad network: transitioned development from an outsourced team to an internal one and established reliability practices.