New York, New York, United States
Full-Stack Software Engineer with 6+ years of industry experience
• Engineer on the Spotify Native Ads Team building a platform to allow artists to create promotional campaigns, which collectively reach hundreds of millions of listeners monthly • Technical Lead on a project that allows artists to promote campaigns for multi-artists releases, allowing them to reach the featured artist’s audience if they so choose. To build this project, I oversaw extensive design changes, data pipeline restructuring, frontend and backend work, as well as changes to the campaign results metrics platform. This feature is now used for over 95% of multi-artist campaigns at Spotify • Spearheaded data pipeline optimizations that decreased read time using predicate pushdown, filtered unnecessary rows, and ended up saving our teams an estimated overall ~$4 million yearly in GCP storage and worfklow costs • Technical Lead for a project that allowed promotional campaigns to be created with 24 hours notice. Devised architecture and scheduling optimizations that reduced campaign processing time from 24 hours to ~2 hours
• Engineer on the Twitter Product Analytics team working to support Twitter as it became the largest BigQuery customer on Google Cloud, enabling multi-million dollar savings • Built a high-traffic distributed system to automatically track schema, permissions, and retention of ~1 million tables and several petabytes worth of company data stored in Twitter’s BigQuery Enterprise Organization • Created a compliance-enforcement application that deleted Twitter-owned BigQuery tables that failed to meet company data safety standards, helping the company keep its data secure and aiding during possible legal audits
• Engineer on the MongoDB Atlas product working with Java and React, allowing users to provision and access hosted MongoDB database instances through the web portal • Enabled Atlas worldwide to securely connect to their personal database via an X509 certificate, which is orders of magnitude more secure than the default option of plaintext passwords
• Engineer on the Uber Freight product working with GoLang and React • Improved the speed of freight payment notifications to just under 24 hours, representing a 95% increase in speed - it typically takes over 30 days after completing a delivery for a truck driver to receive payments information
• Member of Pear VC’s Summer 2017 Startup Launchpad Program, where our team successfully raised pre-seed capital and launched a pilot program with paying users • Co-founded Goodpoint, a platform where users can get professional feedback on important documents • Served as Technical Lead and built the entire web platform from scratch using Node.JS, React, MongoDB, Amazon S3, and Amazon EC2