Berkeley, California, United States
I am into distributed systems, algorithms, optimization techniques and other ways to handle data. Code is craft, and I like to work on challenging problems and get results. I am very comfortable with C++ and Python. When I'm not coding, I read CS research papers (some of my favorites are papers on MapReduce and Spark, and, of course, "On Computable Numbers, With An Application To Entscheidungsproblem" by brilliant Alan Turing), because I believe it’s the core of computer science. When I am not reading papers, I draw. Check out artblvd.blogspot.com, which landed me multiple graphic design freelance projects.
Driving scalability and security initiatives for the underlying peer-to-peer overlay infrastructure of the Stellar network.
Contributor to stellar-core (https://github.com/stellar/stellar-core), a C++ implementation of a distributed ledger. Stellar-core achieves consensus via the Stellar Consensus Protocol (a Federated Byzantine Agreement system).
Built pieces of music ingestion backend pipeline as part of Data Science and Music Engineering Team. - Core contributor to the music matching system, that matched newly incoming content with Pandora's catalog. - Core contributor to the grouping system, which is used to cluster similar musical entities (tracks, albums, artists, labels) through several machine learning models.