Led a 5-member engineering team to successfully build and launch the Assistant Service within a 9-month timeframe. This service seamlessly integrated users’ Recents, Starred, and Team Activities into a unified Feed, implementing a ranking system to highlight crucial items/activities. Effectively unified backend logic for Feed-related functionalities across various platforms (web, mobile, desktop), resulting in a substantial backend latency reduction of up to 35%.
•Team Activity Feed Backend:
Built the backend for the team activity feed feature, enabling users to stay informed about events in their shared folders. Engineered it to be extensible for ranking and highlighting team members' significant activities.
Pioneered the development of an ML-driven feature, "Suggest for You", accurately predicting important files and folders for users. This innovation led to a remarkable 20% increase in user engagement on the Dropbox web home page.