Carnegie Mellon University '17 | Computer Science & Statistics Product engineer - I love to build impactful product interfaces that help many users.
2022 — Now
Menlo Park, California, United States
Worked on Facebook Profile team: built end to end product experiences on web and mobile for users, public figures, and businesses to express themselves, grow, and connect with their audiences
Launched profiles for businesses and public figures
Improved top level Facebook metrics (friending and sessions) with User Things in Common framework
Owned Logged Out Profile views and Profile/Account Switcher on web
Scoped and managed Timeline and Tag Review Facebook Settings on web
Primarily used React, React Native, GraphQL, Relay, PHP
Led profile surge effort for 20+ engineers across multiple platforms
Made technical decisions, developed roadmap, coordinated efforts across teams, derisked timelines
Contributed to profile performance improvements: decreased gCPU, Follow mutation time, and downloaded JS byte size by 5%
Owned projects end to end: scoping, implementation (UI, API, backend), QA, experiments, data analysis/ queries
Collaborated across disciplines (PMs, design, data, privacy) and with other teams
Spearheaded various efforts: yearly roadmaps, project + team retros, logging overhaul, documentation effort across the Profile organization, team alerts and monitoring
Improved documentation favorability from 62% to 84% and increased team alert coverage
Involved in Facebook community: 50+ interviews, bootcamp/ intern mentorship, taught 25 classes
2019 — 2022
Menlo Park, California, United States
* Worked on Profile team building product experiences and features on web and mobile to help users, public figures, and businesses express themselves and grow + connect
* Created features on both web and mobile using React, React Native, GraphQL, Relay, Hack, and server side UI
2017 — 2019
Sunnyvale, CA
Yahoo View
Worked on Yahoo View, Yahoo’s free online TV site
Created and enhanced notable front-end features/ components using React, Node, and Fluxible
Features include new interactive hero banner on home page, “All Shows” listings page, user onboarding workflow, and playlists
Improved metrics such as homepage CTR and user engagement
Drove cross-team collaboration to integrate with Yahoo Canvass team and to add fan comments functionality
Ran A/B tests to experiment new features and added logging/ tracking to measure success in Splunk and with Google Analytics
Wrote unit and functional tests using Chai, Mocha, and Zombie
Worked on API endpoints in Node which provide CRUD operations for data on Yahoo View
Added functionality such as sorting of shows/ episodes by air date and providing show recommendations by user’s browser history
Improved performance by analyzing and modifying SQL query used to get data
Editorial Tools for Yahoo Play
Worked on tool that schedules videos and interactive content for Yahoo Play using React and MobX
Proposed and prototyped initial workflow ideas with design and product teams
Implemented the core front-end features and web routes
Added functionality including form validation to create, edit, and delete trivia for Yahoo Play shows
Worked on rewards content management system for Yahoo Play from scratch using React and MobX
Created core front-end features such as page sidebar, header, and tables to display and update rewards
Worked with forms and Formik
Wrote unit tests with chai, sinon, and enzyme for both tools
Yahoo News, Entertainment, Lifestyle
Worked to create and improve front-end features using React and Yahoo Touchdown v2 framework
Created a new promotion banner for mobile + desktop
Wrote this new lightweight component that is reusable by all properties to promote apps such as Yahoo News and Yahoo Play
Ran experiments and added tracking to measure performance
Sunnyvale, CA
(Acquired by Yahoo)
Worked on new high-priority website Yahoo View: view.yahoo.com
Created entirely in 7 weeks as part of the team to host free Hulu content; launched and announced by Yahoo on Aug. 8, 2016
Worked in front-end development and created features/ components for the site using Node, React, and Fluxible
Introduced programming and CS concepts to students through recitations, office hours, one-on-one help, and grading (15-110: Principles of Computing)
Education
2013 — 2016
Carnegie Mellon University
Bachelor of Science (B.S.)
2013 — 2016
2009 — 2013
The Harker School
2009 — 2013