New York, New York, United States
Instagram Trust & Safety: Content Integrity / Machine Learning Pillar (05/2025 - Now) Creator Distribution and Auditioning Team (05/2023 - 05/2025) Creator Conversations Growth Team (06/2022 - 05/2023) News Signals Team (01/2021 - 03/2022): On this team, I built ML models and developed signals to tackle a wide range of problems in the understanding and ranking of news content across facebook app. News Tab Recommendations Team (10/2019-01/2021): Worked on the recommendation system for the newly launched 'News Tab' product in Facebook app. Some sample projects: - Built candidate generators to efficiently retrieve high quality candidate news articles - Created and tested new ranking features in our core ML models - Built and fine-tuned deduplication and diversity passes in post-ranking logic - Quality and integrity work to identify and downrank violating content - Developed a persistent, real-time clustering system to aggregate articles into common 'stories'
Video Ranking Team
I worked on the platform maintenance team. I developed bug fixes, performance enhancements, and tests for a .NET application using C#, Visual Studio, and SQL Server
I developed homework assignments, held office hours, and graded projects on various topics including object oriented design, algorithms and efficiency, and data structures
1) Designed and created a new app for administrative use 2) Managed and updated data on MySQL and AWS servers 3) Translated an existing project in Objective C to swift code