New York, New York, United States
Interested in research opportunities involving on-the-ground deployment of new technologies in the developing world designed to help alleviate poverty and wealth inequality and/or improve healthcare, education, agriculture, and access to information.
Lead team responsible for all technical writing, and directly responsible for the content and quality of 74 of the top 100 visited MongoDB pages. Lead efforts towards testable documentation, continuous integration, and rigorous quality metrics.
Designed and taught undergraduate-level Computer Science courses including Introduction to Computer Science and Software Engineering.
Performed fundamental research pertaining to usable security mechanisms for low-literate and otherwise challenged populations in the developing world.
Performed fundamental research in the areas of delay-tolerant networks and technologies for the developing world under Professors L. Subramanian and Jinyang Li in the Networking and Wide-area Systems Group (NEWS) at New York University.
Was responsible for complete rewrite of function documentation for the Google Spreadsheets product for the Google Docs (now Google Drive) team. In the process of writing, was responsible for examining code and checking for bugs and unexpected behavior.
Taught Python, Android, and various web technologies to advanced undergraduate engineering students at the University of Moratuwa in Sri Lanka as part of the MIT Accelerating Information Technology Innovation (AITI) program, which teaches development and entrepreneurship skills to students at universities in the developing world. Was responsible with other instructors for developing the Python curriculum. Helped launch six working startups after six weeks' training.