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California, United States

San Bruno, Ca, Us

San Francisco, Ca

2nd PM hired, led teams working on growth, core product, and content. Helped grow The Athletic from 500k subscribers to over 1.2M subscribers. Acquired by the New York Times for $550M.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Led product analytics for the Guest pillar (Growth & Core Product) of Airbnb's new Experiences business

Re-accelerated User growth (2x MAU to >1B in less than 2 years) by driving product changes through novel social network analysis, product analytics, experimentation (incl. network effects), machine learning, and advanced statistical modeling.Led overall social network analytics across the Instagram social graph and designed the underlying algorithms behind Instagram’s User recommender systems, business recommendation engines, and interest ranking.

As a member of Facebook’s core Applied Machine Learning (AML) team, worked on applied research for next generation artificial intelligence (AI) and applications for state-of-the art machine learning: bots/assistants, computer vision, deep learning, facial recognition, natural language processing (NLP), video transcription, translation etc.Led data science work on consumer hardware devices from Building 8, automatic speech recognition (ASR), language models, text-to-speech (TTS), voice interfaces, and development of AI tools to combat foreign election interference.

San Francisco, California, Us

Architected v2 of core analytical data infrastructure, built on top of raw medical/pharmaceutical claims, insurance data, and application logs, which led to a 12x gain in warehouse efficiency. Developed prototypes for new predictive healthcare analytics product (“Castlight Action”) that delivered advanced detection of high risk pregnancies, diabetes, and back pain for early intervention and medical savings.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Developed predictive models of content virality through machine learning methods. Indirectly responsible for at least 5-10% of internet clickbait ;)

Tokyo, Jp

Developed quantitative analyses, automated campaign optimization reporting, marketing mix / attribution models, and recommendations on marketing strategy through data-driven analytics for C-Level executives of top Fortune 500 Brands in the Automotive, CPG, Healthcare, Pharmaceutical, and QSR verticals. Brands worked on include: Acura, Benylin, Botox, Honda, KFC, Lindt, Pizza Hut, Philip Morris, & Tylenol

London, On, Ca

Designed multiple iterations of a mechatronic system to retrofit and optimize existing agricultural harvesting processes. Automated harvesting apparatus was engineered to extreme weight limitations and delivered an efficiency increase of 8x over traditional manual picking of non-uniform produce.

London, Ontario, Ca

Conducted research on patent reform; organized bi-weekly seminars on important public policy issues and led on-site discussions with prominent public policy experts such as the Ontario Minister of Finance and Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney.

London, Ontario, Ca

Designed and engineered an autonomous robot for optimization of lab research processes. Custom built mechatronic system streamlined the testing of newly developed nano-solution coatings. System was developed, sourced, and built at 1/4 the cost of the nearest comparable alternative.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

Produced multilingual marketing collateral and researched new business opportunities for Global Tracking product lines in new industries. Constructed revenue model for Search & Rescue products in the R&D pipeline targeted to emerging markets.

Master'S Degree, Data Science & Machine Learning

Bachelor'S Degree, Honours Business Administration

Bachelor'S Degree, Mechanical Engineering

High School, Ib Diploma