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2019 — NowGoogleSoftware Engineer

2019 — Now

Engineered features for RCS provisioning in Google Messages Android app, using Java and Kotlin

Built onboarding experiences to drive engagement, improved RCS adoption by 50M+ users

Lead multiple projects end-to-end working cross-functionally with Product, UX, Legal and Privacy, QA

Lead and delivered on mission critical projects such as RCS Chat rebrand under tight deadlines

2022 — 2023BlockscopeSoftware Engineering Consultant

2022 — 2023

Consulted on and engineered micro-services written in Node.js for a blockchain startup, with a heavy focus on system architecture, scalability, cost-reduction, and distributed computing

Built a configurable ingestion service to read, process, normalize, and write blockchain data from various sources

Built a service for processing, filtering, and predicate matching Ethereum event data to user-defined pipelines

Built a webhook and event delivery service with a state-machine model and configurable retry-parameters

2018 — 2018FacebookSoftware Engineering Intern

2018 — 2018

Menlo Park, California

Developed and A/B tested new features for Messenger Android app using Litho and GraphQL

Implemented fuzzy search functionality across a new experimental feature

Improved client caching strategy, lowered network usage and improved data freshness

2017 — 2017UberSoftware Engineering Intern

2017 — 2017

San Francisco, California

Built an integration using Facebook Graph API and UBER Trip Experiences to match a trip destination with users’ Facebook Events (written in Go)

Improved debugging experience for 3rd party developers by developing a debugging console in React and Go

Used Elasticsearch and dynamic templates to store error logs produced across many services ingested from Kafka

2017 — 2017Hatch CanadaAlpha Coach (Python and Javascript)

2017 — 2017

Toronto

Educated children (ages 7yrs - 17yrs) with basic Javascript Fundamentals

and Processing.js

Helped students debug code and build a strong foundation in Javascript

syntax

Taught older students python and basic algorithmic concepts

Assisted students in preparing for the Senior level CCC

Education

2015 — 2019

University of Toronto

Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.)

2015 — 2019

2011 — 2015

Woburn Collegiate Institute

Highschool Diploma

2011 — 2015

Experience+

Education

Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.)

Highschool Diploma