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Improving Query Understanding for Search by applying NLU/LLMs

Infrastructure:- Re-organized the team's codebase to be able to build different units for different runtime environments.Elevation:- Contributed to improve Wifi-based elevation estimations on-device.

Fused Location:- Architected, designed, and implemented an internal analysis (automated and manual) and visualization tool that allows easy access to data from user issue reports. The tool has become the go-to tool for triaging in the team.Android ContextHub Runtime Environment:- Architected, designed, and implemented a general purpose internal API/protocol for high level communication between Android applications and applications running in the CHRE.- Designed, and implemented infrastructure to simplify testing components running in the CHRE, as well as Android applications interacting with the CHRE

Android GNSS:- Co-designed, and implemented the initial support for GNSS measurements in Android.- Designed, and implemented new features spanning the HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer), JNI layer, and 1st party APIs.Fused Location:- I have been in charge to investigate, analyze, and track performance, memory, and battery in our team’s stack. I have led optimization efforts in those areas in several occasions.

Android Sensors:- I Architected, designed, and implemented a framework to simplify the creation and maintenance of tests part of the CTS (Compatibility Test Suite) for sensors.Android Nearby (startup phase):- I designed and implemented from scratch the storage, display, and synchronization of settings across devices and accounts.

As a member of the Windows Phone Client Location Team, I:- Architected the software stack required to provide Geofencing functionality on Windows Phone.- Was the Windows Phone owner in charge of defining and implementing the WinRT Geofencing APIs that would be used for Windows and Windows Phone. - Owned the definition, and implementation of the WinRT Location APIs.- Designed, and Implemented the Cell/Wifi location stacks.

As a member of the Visual Studio’s Project & Build team, I:- Architected, designed, and implemented (along with two more engineers) an internal tool to automate on-demand collection of data from stress tests.- Designed, implemented, and maintained automation infrastructure for core features owned by the team.

As a member of the Visual Studio’s Project & Build team, I:- Designed, and implemented (as a spare project) a tool to help reproduce customer issues related to MSBuild by taking their build files, and generating a set of files without PII that could be used to reproduce the issues.- Designed, implemented, and maintained automation infrastructure for core features owned by the team.

As a member of the Linux Baseport Team, I was in charge of maintaining, and implementing new requirements on the Camera, Display, Video, and FrameBuffer drivers for the OMAP2 and OMAP3 platforms.

Designed and implemented a PHP/SQL Server web application to:- Maintain and control a database of network devices in the internal WAN (which spanned the entire central region of the country).- Monitor, gather information (such as Bandwidth, and Latency), and analyze Network Devices remotely using the SNMP protocol.