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San Francisco, Ca, Us

Oakland, California, Us

- Developed and led the implementation of a highly scalable, real-time recommendation service in Scala, serving over 100 million monthly users across iOS, Android, and Web platforms.- Spearheaded multiple integration projects with vertical teams (Credit Cards, Personal Loans, Mortgages) by collaborating with engineers and PMs. Led technical design/architecture, created data models, APIs, and experiments for A/B testing.- Led the integration of external data sources to enrich recommendation models, improving recommendation accuracy and enhancing the relevance of suggested financial products.

New York, Ny, Us

- Developed highly scalable and performant microservices for the real-time recommendation engine and infrastructure powering StubHub's mobile and web platforms, serving a user base of over 16 million.- Developed and optimized various ranking algorithms to deliver personalized and relevant interests (Topics) to users based on their online activities, purchase history, and social graphs. This resulted in a notable 12% increase in visitor duration, leading to nearly $200 million in additional ticket sales within six months.- Engineered and optimized Splunk and New Relic dashboards, enabling efficient debugging and accelerated deployment processes.- Enriched the Location API Search functionality with comprehensive internationalization and multi-lingual support, empowering users to discover concert, theater, and sports events in their vicinity with ease.

- Designed, shipped, and optimized a fitness app in 4 months. The app hit 10,000+ downloads in the first month. - Continued optimization, design and implementation toward improved performance of FitNic which led to 100,000 downloads in the first six months and an average of 43 mins spent on the app per active session.- Built UI/UX via Storyboards and XIBs and using AutoLayout in conjunction with size classes to optimize app for iPhone and iPad. - Integrated a crash reporting system and google analytics which allows for continuous improvement of the app with each crash incident. - Experience in working TDD&SDET environments by writing modular Unit Test cases and UI Test cases by using XCTest framework. - Converted full wireframe into a native iOS application with Swift and distributed the app in the AppStore.

Waltham, Ma, Us

- Developed software using Python and Java for wet-lab workflow automation and integration with Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) built with PostgreSQL and Spring Framework which increased productivity and reproducibility by 70% and throughput and capacity by 80%. - Designed and developed computational pipelines to process human genome data using Python, implemented data mining algorithms to identify gene variants, determine customer's genotype, predict genetic testing results, and generate commercial test report for customers.

Computer Software Engineering

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Biology