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• AERDF Assessment for Good (AFG) ProgramDeveloping asset-based formative assessment tools to eradicate the persistent gap in opportunity experienced by Black and Latinx learners, aged 8-13, in classrooms across the.
• Drove Vision and Strategy: Formulated and executed a clear vision and strategy for technical growth, aligning with AFG’s values around inclusive research and development (R&D) and leveraging learning science foundations
• Architected Scalable Platforms: Designed and implemented robust infrastructure and processes to accelerate product development, successfully bringing multiple assessment products from concept to production in just a.
• Built and Scaled Engineering Teams: Grew and managed engineering teams from a single 7-member unit to multiple distributed and interdisciplinary teams totaling 20 members, including 3 product teams, an infrastructure.
• Provided Comprehensive Technical Leadership: Offered hands-on leadership across various domains, including architecture, design, code reviews, development, quality assurance, observability, and production support
• Developed AI Strategy and Capabilities: Created and advanced the AFG’s AI strategy, enhancing AI and GenAI engineering capabilities with a strong focus on data governance and securityTech

• Creating education technology non-profit seeking to develop K6 children’s self-agency for learning by celebrating their project-based learning journey with trusted mentors within their personal community
• Architecting and implementing multimodal platform using React/TypeScript for web, React Native for mobile, Express + NodeJS, GraphQL + Nexus + Prisma + Postgres for server/DB, and AWS S3 for file storage
• Developing CI/CD pipeline on Heroku with automated testing: React Testing Library and Puppeteer end-to-end

Redwood City, CA, US

• CZIBuilding a future for EVERYONE! Ensuring that everyone has equal access to opportunities for transformative educational experiences regardless of their circumstances.RoleBrought together three different teams of.
• Applied strength as a connector between Product, Design, Data Science, and Engineering to bring clarity around product definition, design vision, roadmap, and timelines
• Set team culture through agile norms specific to the team and through deliberate pairing of engineers with projects to facilitate cross-learning
• Cultivated career growth by challenging ICs with projects at their Zone of Proximal DevelopmentTech
• Continuous delivery and integration through GitHub
• Remix + NodeJS on micro-services architecture in AWS Cloud

Redwood City, CA, US

• Engineered transformative solutions on the Summit Learning Platform which served over 80,000 students & 400 schools
• Improved the user experience of the feedback cycle between teachers & students - ex: implemented the ability to highlight what changed in the student’s work between revisions
• Raised the scalability of the platform by reducing open Postgres DB connections and improved cost by reducing s3 writes (millions a day) by half
• Minimized lost student work, a major user point, through auto-saves in local storage

Armonk, New York, NY, US

• Drove application architecture and engineering for IBM Watson Education’s Cloud Platform play from the ground up. Developed and implemented strategy to provide AI services and easily consumable embeddable user.
• New AI services by extending Watson capabilities and data analytics through Cloudant/MapReduce
• Cloud container/Kubernetes-based micro-service architecture with well documented APIs through Swagger
• Continuous delivery through GitHub Enterprise and Travis CI
• ReactJS with Jest/Enzyme (automated testing) hosted by NodeJSHired in and led six-member application development team (and larger extended team) in creating cloud-based cognitive application for educators that is.
• Innovative product that is unique in marketplace

Armonk, New York, NY, US

• Critical member of the IBM Hallmark project for new cloud-enabled database tool, bringing it from inception to mass market adoption. Led the design effort for key product-differentiation feature: simplify the most.
• Proven to significantly (at least 2x) improve the time-on-task
• Appreciable on-going revenue for IBM
• Patent issuedLed a team of senior designers on a cross-division security-management web and mobile design component. Design pattern and customizable code component adopted by multiple products.Led design for enhancing.
• Mockups/wireframes with Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator
• Empathy map, user journey, and usability testing

Cupertino, California, US

Analyzed customer feedback and search patterns for Mac OS X and iApps documentation to improve the the on-screen help search engine. Developed simple PHP/MySQL-based ETL scripts to support on-going month-to-month incremental data analysis.

Master'S Degree, Education: Learning, Design, And Technology

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Management Information Systems, General

Bachelor'S Degree, Chemical Engineering