YT Music Search - Client and Frontend Technical Lead/Manager

• Search, Suggest, and Voice features (zero state suggestions, visual suggestions, top result cards, smart voice search, conversational voice agent)

• Android development (Java, experimentation, logging, metrics analysis, server driven UI rendering)

• Frontend server development (Python, C++, server infrastructure management, server driven UI rendering)

• Tech lead (mentorship, architecture design, xfn collaboration, cross team consensus driving, tech debt reduction, long term planning, technical solution analysis, hiring, culture/morale management especially during WFH)

Search Team:

• Contributed to launch of new "Plus Homes" product vertical, and specialized homes collections for families and work

• Led Travel Stories product development on Android, that was featured in TechCrunch and Verge:

* https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/24/airbnb-travel-stories

* https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/24/17388538/airbnb-travel-stories-feature-videos-from-trip

Growth Team:

• Focused on Guest Growth initiatives to bring new users and retain existing users on the platform, including referrals, social merchandise sharing, app linking, internationalization, and UGC sharing.

Infrastructure working groups:

• Focused on release management, design language system, Kotlin adoption, and app development best practices.

Also conducted technical interviews and served as mentor for both new employee cohorts and for existing employees on an ongoing basis.

Served as summer instructor for CS61C at UC Berkeley

• Updated syllabus and lecture slides with co-instructor

• Delivered half of all lectures, and provided input/feedback on other half led by co-instructor

• Hired and managed a multi-tier staff including 6 TAs, 2 tutors, and 1 reader

• Oversaw all course material development/updates, including 4 comprehensive projects, 6 homework sets, 14 lab assignments, 14 section review worksheets, 2 mid term exams, and a cumulative final exam

• Managed several sensitive student issues, including issuing Incomplete grade, granting extenuating circumstance exceptions, investigation of academic dishonesty, and writing recommendation letters.

UCWISE: IDE’s for Education project with Professor Michael J. Clancy at UC Berkeley.

• Designed Eclipse-based tools for programming courses.

• Implemented a quiz generation module using HTML, CSS3 and Javascript that converts static marked up content into interactive multiple choice questions.

• Source Code: https://github.com/IDE4edu/MVLE