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• Presently leading performance and reliability instrumentation development for a 3-team effort to modernize Feed Delivery Infrastructure.Also providing team leadership to fill gaps as-needed, examples including:Helped.
• Built out a team mission and 2+ year strategy for the Feed Platform Team
• Developed a culture of cross-platform architecture review by starting a "Feature Review" process that shaped our collaboration model with other teams at Facebook
• Developed new processes for the team to load-balance work and build features more quicklyBuilt a team-wide program for providing career and technical mentorship to help grow engineers:
• Helped 3 new teammates plan out 6-month projects aligned with their career goals
• Helped 2 senior teammates work with mentees to address their career goals

• Developed the first AR Face Effects platform for News Feed, built across 5 tech stacks:
• Led a 6+ person team spanning ML Eng, Product Eng, Product Manager, Designers, Data Scientists
• Launched 2 cutting-edge AR Face Effects within Facebook App
• Built new infrastructure into C++ AR Game and Effects Engine to support arbitrary ML models
• Drove procedures for analyzing memory consumption and performance of graphics and ML models
• Built and piloted new procedures for analyzing racial / sex-based bias in ML modelsCompleted a 3+ year effort to modernize Feed’s UI Infrastructure:

Built performance testing framework for Feed UI, which caught and attributed major performance bugs before they hit productionIdentified 2 separate, undiscovered privacy risks, raised awareness, and fixed themManaged and mentored 3 interns from underrepresented groups in tech through the Facebook University program

Columbus, Ohio, US

Worked on the Interactive Data Systems Team run by Professor Arnab Nandi. Wrote GestureDB, a React-Native iPad app for interactive MySQL database querying using touch gestures. Helped support research to discover novel ways to interact with large sets of data.

Worked 40 hours a week as an iOS Developer for the Messenger Media team.Developed features that help improve user experience for interacting with media, and that set the basis for the future of the Messenger platform.

DCXP was a 4-week non-profit program designed to bring together talented students and give each of them the opportunity to develop a strong software portfolio, create new projects with expert engineers, and make new connections in the startup industry. As the lead technical mentor, I assisted with project development and gave workshops on various technical.

Washington, District Of Columbia, US

Worked with Salesforce, PHP, and AngularJS to help push updates to large-scale applications for clients. Development was done on an Agile development team using git, bitbucket, and Atlassian Cloud for project management.

Columbus, Ohio, US

Development position for the Office Of Research. Made modifications and updates to Model View Controller designed web applications using JQuery, CSS, PHP, and MySQL. Tested applications on multiple platforms and web browsers. Helped design code to prevent XSS attacks.

Assisted customers, answered various questions about Apple products (both in person and over the phone), entered purchases and customer information into the invoice system, and performed various other tasks around the store.

Great Neck, New York, US

Met weekly with students to assist with a variety of high school subjects, especially math and Spanish.

Served as the CTO for a social gaming mobile app startup:- Wrote Objective-C frontend, including custom core-graphics animations, a customizable UI library, and a mobile network stack for interfacing with the backend- Designed RESTful backend API and content management webapp - Guided 2 other engineers to support development of the backend, educating.

• From 7th grade through 12th, I developed software (mainly iPhone Apps) as both a private subcontractor for various organizations and for my own uses. FlaxApps, although not an incorporated organization, is the title.
• 2013 – Spent a summer working for Corbin Creative Databases - Helped make modifications to an iPhone App for designed to assist with babysitting and scheduling. Fixed minor issues and made major improvements to a.
• 2011 - Designed, wrote, and placed on the iTunes store various workout applications such as Stuck In Your Seat and Royal Bum for an organization named Picot Pilates
• 2010 - Helped develop applications such as iLineUp and TiltTimer for Caruso, Inc
• 2010 - Wrote my own personal iPhone game, now available on the iTunes store, entitled Zap Ball

Worked the entire summer and into the start of the school year. Started as a “Courtesy Clerk” collecting carts from the parking lot and helping customers carry bags to their cars. Later began running checkout lines and bagging groceries.

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science Engineering

International Baccalaureate Diploma