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AWS LambdaLed a junior team member to design and implement a solution to reduce the latency of asynchronous invokes of Lambda functions.Designed and implemented Lambda's support for the AWS X-Ray service to enable Lambda's customers to profile and improve their Lambda functions.Designed and implemented a solution to mitigate the customer impact of Lambda's cold starts. Cold starts are seen by customers as Lambda function invokes with increased duration, due to static initialization that must complete before the customer's invoke request can be handled.Mentored junior team members to improve both the maintainability and the quality of the work they produce, as well as to guide them towards being more effective within the team.Drove team-wide continuous improvement towards best practices on operations and deployments.

Designed, prototyped, focus-tested, and implemented a general-purpose automation framework to better support test-driven development.Piloted use of agile tools and methodologies for product feature development work.

Extended and optimized simulation models used to evaluate a proposed relay incentive system for the Tor anonymity network.Independently designed and tested simulation models used to demonstrate vulnerabilities of the ShadowWalker anonymity network. Helped develop a curriculum that required students reprogram AIBO robots to learn elementary programming and problem-solving skills.

Directed group discussions to improve student understanding of fundamental concepts and techniques.Created and validated weekly programming exercises; enabled students to identify and correct faults in their solutions.Helped professors by writing and grading assignments and exams.