Founding Engineer @ Exa | CS @ University of Waterloo
2024 — Now
San Francisco, California, United States
• Designed and built state-of-the-art Vector Database in Rust to return results in <100ms, with support for hybrid neural/keyword search
• Manage Exa's web-scale infrastructure
2023 — 2023
• Built Volley's game streaming engine to serve thousands of users
• Designed the encryption protocol for communication over TCP
2021 — 2022
• Engineered a caching proxy using Go and SQLite that reduced proxy bandwidth usage by 80%
• Created an OpenAPI schema validation library using Pydantic Models that improved performance by 40x
University of Waterloo