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California, United States

Cupertino, California, Us

• Collaborated with tentpole DRIs and delivered demos to VPG leadership and cross-functional partners in HW, SW, Product Marketing and HI to gather feedback, get buy-in, and drive conversation for the program • Built demo feedback process from ground up (created centralized location to capture and store feedback, provided weekly feedback update to DRIs, and extracted and presented trends and findings to all DRIs), feedback directly drove changes in the next iteration of demo• Managed demo experience video capturing project - defined filming tasks and created timeline, tracked progress, unblocked production by serving as point of contact between media production and engineering, and completed filming before required deadline • Partnered with QA and software engineers to evaluate builds, file radars, and triage bugs to ensure software is in demo-ready state

Brooklyn, Ny, Us

•Led project management and engineering of Bigtable key schema migration to fix hotspotting caused by imbalanced node usage• Led engineering of visual discovery initiative: explored streaming data based on engagement with video feeds and enabled 10 new datasets on platform based on user interactions with Etsy Explore. Datasets powered multiple machine learning models and experiments

Brooklyn, Ny, Us

• Led project management and engineering of P0 GitHub repo and CI/CD migration project - proposed migration plan and implemented code changes required to move existing infrastructure from Jenkins to Google Cloud Build; completed migration before required deadline• Interfaced with PMs and engineers on multiple product partner teams to gather requirements and collaborate on deliverables; implemented solutions consistently saw multiple metric wins and multiple supported experiments were ramped up to production

Walldorf, Bw, De

• Launched the integration of SQL-on-File and Managed Object Storage features into HANA data lake; projected to increase the number of data lake customers, terabyte per hour usage, and annual revenue by at least 12%• Researched competitors, customers, and market trends, helped define product vision and strategy, iteratively closed usability gaps by collaborating with engineers and designers, and presented product vision/ demo to GTM, digital strategy, and pre-sales teams• Updated Q4 2020 – Q1 2021 product roadmap by prioritizing backlogged features based on product requirements gathered through user research and discussions with engineering• Designed and delivered demo highlighting features of Data Lake for 500+ technical audiences

Brooklyn, Ny, Us

• Nominated by Etsy for the University of Waterloo’s Co-op student of the year award; term product deliverable published by the CTO in the Engineering Highlight Newsletter to 500+ co-workers• Built infrastructure in Scala using Google Cloud Dataflow, Compute Engine and BigTable, and designed new API endpoints to deliver real-time trending data to serve recommendations on Etsy Web and power machine learning models • Designed data structure which enhanced data scientists’ insights to user purchase behavior

Waterloo, Ontario, Ca

• Led team to work with industry and academic speakers to orchestrate 35+ events to educate hackers on topics including Blockchain, AI, Product Pitching, Market Research, and Wireframing• Spearheaded roadmap planning, established OKR with board members, led sprint planning and resolved key blockers by leading weekly agile scrum meetings• Collaborated with cross-functional team leads to promote event and design logistics for 1400+ participants

New York, Ny, Us

• Increased KPI by 5% for target segments through implementing product design learnings from analysis of A/B testing experiment results and re-evaluated KPI for influencer marketing spend• Powered upselling strategy and optimized out-of-stock page by productizing a machine learning model to classify similar listings on SeatGeek Web; KPIs improved by 20% during A/B testing• Led 2 engineers and 1 product designer to prototype feature during a company-wide hackathon; demo-ed and pitched on behalf of the team to 400+ co-workers• Interviewed cross-functional stakeholders to discuss pain points, proposed solutions and triaged as necessary

Lausanne, Vd, Ch

• Mandarin Chinese <> English• Prepared translation of monetization strategy, commercialization plan and term sheet for stakeholders• Translated correspondence between executives and investors during meetings

San Jose, Ca, Us

• Automated batch failure classification in the data center by parsing machine logs with NLP algorithms • Implemented similar build-failure detection features to decrease the number of related tickets raised by 85%• Iterated on user-feedback and implemented additional features to display test results and performance trends, saving 20% time for engineers in administrative work

Manchester, New Hampshire, Us

• Investigated process inefficiencies as part of a cross-functional consulting team; presented findings and recommendation which saves 40% time in manual work to C-suite executives• Identified additional target clients and business partners for Early Resolutions Initiative by analyzing 15K + datapoint in historic settlement and defense expenses; recommendation directly drove business decision-making

Waterloo, Ontario, Ca

• Streamlined and automated manual debit-purchase analysis with VBA program • Performed daily financial reconciliation • Assisted with inventory database management

Aurora, On, Ca

• Worked on a variety of community development, ecotourism, and wildlife rehabilitation projects

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science

Bachelor’S Degree, Business Administration And Management

Computer Science And Financial Engineering