Core platform and services.

Led Reddit Talk and Chat.

Leading a team working on Anthos Service Mesh for Google Cloud Platform. Building solutions with Istio, Kubernetes, and more.

Responsible for tech organization:- Product strategy and execution- Tech infrastructure, including deployment, scaling, optimization, monitoring/alerting, budgeting/accounting, etc. for all running services- Developer infrastructure and culture, including source control, continuous integration and automated testing, code review culture, developer toolsResponsible for company operation:- High-level strategy and execution- Oversight of finance/accounting- Board reporting/management- Directly managed 10 cross-functional reports

Worked on 5+ teams within Google Maps. Small selection of public projects include:- WebGL in-browser rendering engine: http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2011/10/step-inside-map-with-google-mapsgl.html- Absurd-scale, multi-client map data serving infrastructure- Complete redesign/rebuild of Google Maps: http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2014/02/thank-you-and-welcome-to-new-google-maps.html- Major quality/performance improvements to offline map data generation pipeline. Shaved ~15% off of pipeline's runtime while improving quality of map feature label selection.- Conducted hundreds of interviews, very active in college recruiting in particular (remote and on-campus)- Official Noogler mentor for three new employees, unofficially mentored many more- Created Seattle culture committee with three colleagues, took responsibility for local new employee welcome/on-boarding, planning, fundraising, and executing office-wide social/networking events, etc.- 7 patents filed as of 2014.

Undergraduate and graduate. Department of Computer Science. Did both concurrently.

Designed and implemented several systems to determine real-time trending entities (i.e., people, places, things, concepts) across the web. Combined signals from sources such as Twitter, Wikipedia, Digg, Reddit, Bit.ly, etc. Ultimately produced a de-duped, de-spammed stream of real-time entity rankings and aggregate trends.Picked up Michael Jackson's death hours before it was on the news.

Created a new Google News data pipeline which pushed clustered, de-spammed, top breaking stories to the news.google.com front page with <5 minute latency (previously 2+ hours). Still in production 10 years later!