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Seattle, WA, US

New York City, NY, US

Seattle, WA, US

• Recent part-time engagement as sole founding engineer for a web data extraction and competitive insights startup.
• Built out Python codebase from the ground up, including web crawler, data models, supporting scripts, documentation, and engineering infrastructure. Designed to be extensible, scalable, and understandable for easy.
• The fully-functional data product has been launched and sold to multiple B2B customers.
• The crawler is an extensible platform built on top of Scrapy, backed by PostgreSQL. With minimal oversight, it regularly evaluates 9000 identifiers across 100k+ websites, using 400 parallel shards. At this level of.
• Terraform is used to provision all AWS resources, utilizing a highly scalable architecture on top of Batch and Step Functions, writing results to RDS. Bazel is configured as the build system for testing, packaging, and.
• Low-code internal tooling with Retool supports the configuration and operation of the system by non-technical users without significant engineering investment - allowing exploration of new identifiers to boost sales.

New York, New York, US

Returned to a Tech Lead and Manager role for the Ocelot Adjudication team. Overseeing a team of five engineers through continued development of Oscar's next-generation claims processing engine. Responsible for formulating strategic medium- and long-term goals, managing progress and milestones, and providing technical leadership. Business areas covered.

New York, New York, US

Returned to Seattle WA, working full-time remote as an IC on Oscar's Engineering Infrastructure team.Built an internal tool from scratch which allows users to query any Oscar gRPC service using a dynamically generated React form, according to the corresponding Protobuf request schema. The tool is utilized by engineers and non-technical users.

New York, New York, US

Took over management responsibilities for the Plans and Benefits team.

New York, New York, US

Bootstrapped a brand new backend team responsible for managing Plans and Benefits data across Oscar; including data models, services, configuration tools, benefit adjudication business logic. Led the team through growth up to 5 new engineers.

New York, New York, US

Founding member of a new team spun up to start work on Oscar's inhouse claim processing engine. Involved in core early decisions around the technology stack, such as the service architecture, data storage scheme, and domain-specific language for developing business logic. Designed and implemented several core features of the system such as accumulators and.

Redmond, Washington, US

Developer on Cortana's Proactive Ranking team.Designed and implemented a pipeline for making pre-computed ranking features available and updated on a daily basis in the online stack. This pipeline can be leveraged by data scientists to quickly onboard new features, with a minimal overhead, and no required knowledge of the intricacies of Cortana's online.

Redmond, Washington, US

Developer for Bing in the Contextual Relevance group.Migrated several large Contextual Relevance features and components into a new backend framework (internal to Bing). Old code in C++ needed to be translated to C#, with a completely new service paradigm.- Personally responsible for re-writing an existing complex feature (Category-Promoted Search) from.

Redmond, Washington, US

Developer for Bing in the Contextual Relevance group.Set up and maintained a small monitoring flight (including alerts) for Contextual Relevance features, which checks daily for excessive changes in coverage or relevance in individual signals. This flight was still running at last check (April 2015). This monitoring was crucial for detecting long-term.

Redmond, Washington, US

Tester for Bing in the Contextual Relevance group.Maintained a variety of tests and followed up on their failures, including unit tests, black box tests, performance tests, and live site monitoring - for a number of different features in the Contextual Relevance search stack (including Suggested Sites, CPS, PNav and CNav). Drove for a high quality bar in.

Auckland, NZ

Developed software in a team environment on large scale projects, dealing with issues such as version control, requirements conflict resolution and product testing.Part of a team of about 10 developers working on a wide range of projects.Directly involved with software development in several real-world custom built data-oriented applications and websites..