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San Francisco, California, US

San Francisco, California, US

• Leading a a high-performing 10+ engineer Platform team responsible for data (ingestion & processing & exporting & discovery), enterprise features (authentication & identity), and key products (SDK).
• Streamlined processes with executives and cross-functional teams, saving the team 5% annually in meeting time (equivalent to 2 hours per week), freeing up resources for higher-impact work
• Oversaw the design and implementation of a revamp of a data upload solution, enabling customers to upload millions of assets per hour (vs. thousands), unlocking over $1 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR)
• Championed the development of a native Cloud Object Storage (S3, GCS, Azure Blob) integration, projected to drive 100k+ in new annual revenue, to streamline customer workflows

Sydney, NSW, AU

• Grew a team from 3 to 10 engineers, demonstrating leadership and management skills in building a high-performing team
• Updated planning processes to extend the team’s roadmap from 2 weeks to 2 months, enhancing long-term planning and strategic decision-making
• Optimized development environment setup, reducing the time required from 1-2 days to less than an hour, improving efficiency and productivity
• Piloted infrastructure changes, resulting in a $10k+ reduction in the team’s monthly operational expenses, demonstrating cost-effectiveness and resource optimization

Tempe, AZ, US

• Established a team from the ground up, growing it from 0 to 5 engineers, demonstrating strong leadership and team-building skills
• Migrated 20+ data pipelines to AWS, unlocking $2-4 million in operational savings annually
• Deployed an event steaming platform, eliminating 4+ equivalent systems that 4+ teams uniquely owned, promoting efficiency and standardization
• Advanced a new Freemium plan type to help mitigate around 3-4k customer accounts being canceled daily
• Launched an asset tracking service, significantly enhancing the detection of illegal content uploaded by over 100%

Tempe, AZ, US

• Produced over 15+ data pipelines to drive data-driven product decisions, demonstrating analytical skills and ability to translate data into actionable insights
• Delivered a machine learning model to optimize customer plan selection during on-boarding, reducing initial 30-day customer attrition rates by 1-3%
• Provided tooling to data scientists, streamlining their workflow and reducing the time required to take a machine learning model to production from days to hours
• Deconstructed a monolithic application into a micro-service based one, resulting in a 25% reduction in CPU and memory usage for the application

Tempe, AZ, US

• Advocated for a common service-oriented architecture to standardize web services development across 5 product teams, promoting efficiency and consistency in development practices
• Constructed multiple internal services, such as a delayed job queue, for use by multiple product teams, demonstrating technical expertise and the ability to build and maintain complex systems
• Created a landing page generator that significantly outperformed a previous static landing page, increasing its click-through rate by 200%

Atlanta, Georgia, US

• Tasks
• Prepared weekly course work for students taking a course
• Graded assignments
• Held office hoursCourses
• CS 6242: Data and Visual Analytics
• CSE 8803: Big Data for Health Informatics

• Significantly improved the performance of a web application by 75%, reducing its time to interactive from 10 seconds to 2.5 seconds
• Led the development of a SEO-optimized marketing website, which resulted in an increase of 1-2k unique daily visitors
• Managed a team of contractors to build browser extensions, generating over 50k customer sign-ups

• Launched a Pinterest-like news feed, which improved customer time on site by 10% (~30 seconds)
• Rewrote a website asset loading system, reducing page load time by 25%, from 5 seconds to 3.75 seconds

Redmond, WA, US

• Integrated Facebook social features into Skype desktop clients, improving client session time by 5% (~15 seconds)
• Prototyped the initial version of Skype Advertising, which was projected to generate over $3-5 million in revenue annually

• Performed an end to end redesign of a web application daily to modernize its look and feel
• Introduced applications for the LinkedIn and Google Chrome webstores, enabling 100s of new sign-ups per daily

San Jose, CA, US

• Developed 15 JavaScript widgets for Cisco Spark, allowing customers to customize their experiences within it
• Constructed an OpenSocial compliant container to allow for customers to extend Cisco Spark

Master’S Degree, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Science, Computer Science