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San Francisco, Ca, Us

San Mateo, California, Us

San Mateo, California, Us

SWE in Core Systems. Working on a distributed priority queue that is the storage layer for our asynchronous job execution engine which processes ~1T jobs/day. Also the storage layer for video encoding jobs, notifications, etc. Focused on the storage layer, performance optimizations, and growing the user base.You can read more about the system here: https://engineering.fb.com/2021/02/22/production-engineering/foqs-scaling-a-distributed-priority-queue/

San Francisco, California, Us

Full stack developer working on data integrations and features.Did Devops work to automate server management on AWS using Terraform and Chef. Built a feature in react.js to help connect PCPs to their patients. Wrote data integrations in Ruby to pull data from hospitals.

San Francisco, California, Us

Built a data pipeline to collect user generated tracking data from our site including page views, clicks, heartbeats, and impressions. This involved writing a service in front of Kafka to perform data validation and serialization, spinning up our own Kafka cluster as our message bus, and using Gobblin (an ingestion engine released by LinkedIn) to move data from Kafka into S3. Load tested the end to end system for performance metrics.Designed our ingestion pipeline and data serving service for our credit cards data. Wrote and open sourced VersionAlchemy, a way to track changes to MySQL rows (inspired by Ruby's paper trail), as a part of this process. Wrote comprehensive tests to ensure our new data model and API precisely matched our legacy system.Led a weekly backend meeting to discuss horizontal backend projects that impact the entire company. Mentored two interns, took an active role in interviewing and recruiting, and participated in outreach efforts like tech talks and blog posts.

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

Designing and implementing a high level language called Ludwig to easily represent and verify parallel algorithms.

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

Led weekly discussion sections of 30 students to help them get a better grasp of the material. Wrote and graded homework assignments, tests, and projects.

New York, Ny, Us

- Updated Venmo's Fraud Engine to use a more scalable open source business rules library- Created a module in Nginx which added a unique key to every request and attached it to all logs for tracing purposes- Created a web app for recruiters which aggregates Github user data related to repos we are interested in- Pioneered an effort to use machine learning to preemptively catch and prevent fraudulent transactions

Menlo Park, California, Us

- Created an automated simulation tool to send random media messages to clients in bulk- Added features to prevent Cross Site Request Forgery- Created a settings database in the backend and modified the frontend to access it

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

Lead weekly office hours and labs where students can come in to better understand the material for Principles of Functional Programming.

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

Lead and plan weekly study groups for students in Calculus in 3-Dimensions in order to reinforce key concepts discussed in lecture.

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

Manage the computing and printing facilities around campus and troubleshoot hardware, software, and networking issues.

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

Working with a professor to write problems and auto-graders for his programming class.

Stanford, Ca, Us

Updated C++ data analysis binaries by fixing memory leaks and optimizing runtime. Created a framework in Python to automate some of the data analysis routines.

Stanford, Ca, Us

Created a module in C++, which calculated the velocity of an electron through liquid Xenon. Part of the Enriched Xenon Observatory (EXO) research group.Link to my final report:https://docs.google.com/open?id=0BzZU3SNxZre-YjA0M2ExZjktOWIwZi00Yjg4LWJhYWMtYTI0ZjhlZTg4MjE0&authkey=CL-76p8H

Bachelor Of Science, Computer Science

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