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San Francisco, California, Us

New York, Ny, Us

- Designed and built three services to ETL external device data to Snowflake using Python, pydantic, Serverless Framework, AWS Lambda, SQS, and Confluent / Kafka.- Designed new backend services and contributed to existing ones; developed logic and endpoints to manage and perform actions on ~55K customer devices, surfaced insights via dashboard for companies to view and improve their devices’ IT health.- Built and maintained Python client libraries for integrating with external tool APIs.- Developed GraphQL APIs using Python’s graphene library for flexible and efficient data access.- Worked cross-functionally with teams to identify problem and built solution that automated manual process that took ~15 clicks; saved company 7 hrs/wk of error-prone manual labor.- Reviewed ~30 observability monitors in Datadog, made code changes in multiple services to reduce monitor noise, tuned monitor queries and edited descriptions to make them actionable. Helped setup on-call best practices in PagerDuty with rotation and documentation.

New York, Ny, Us

* Led migration of data stack architecture from Redshift to Snowflake and Periscope to dbt & Looker.* Setup best practices: fresher data from 8 hr to 30 min, job schedules, CI job, data testing, composable code, data documentation, monitoring, and on-call rotation with runbook.* Developed 50+ analytics models in Snowflake using SQL and dbt via extensive data cleaning.* Interviewed and hired 5 team members; mentored them all all things data and best practices.* Wrote engineering blog post: How Stitch Solved Electric's Data Ingestion Needs (https://www.electric.ai/blog/how-stitch-solved-electrics-data-ingestion-needs)

- Research for Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI): inferred 30-40% of U.S. adults with criminal records, ~25M people, are eligible for criminal record expungement. Insights helped CZI lobby regulators for state and federal legislation of automatic record clearance solutions.- Gathered continual insights on anonymous criminal record dataset of ~60K records to relay to CZI to ensure continued funding of project.- Tesla Motors: created Python library for drive simulation hardware to programmatically control car’s 12V battery; tests used to validate various aspects of Model 3’s design.- Designed & taught curriculum for 11-week master’s business analytics course in Python at Santa Clara University for 30 students; received positive reviews from students.- Created Random Forest classifier predicting trial rate conversion for personal trainer app with ROC AUC score of 0.88; model assisted team to interact with leads more efficiently.- Discovered drop-offs in user onboarding flow for trainer signups on app; suggested recommendations that were adopted by developers to redesign flow.

New York, Ny, Us

* Modeled tables in dbt & Redshift utilizing star schema to report on feature flagged performance.* Designed instrumentation, success metrics and built dashboards for new feature launches.* Investigated user behavior flows in community manager app; found unexpected user patterns in event creation process and made suggestions on how to improve user experience.

Conshohocken, Pa, Us

- Designed and implemented lead scoring model using engagement in social network app that estimated student college enrollment likelihood; guided Director of Admissions on outreach.- Implemented XGBoost classifier that predicted admitted college students’ likelihood to enroll. - Analyzed trends in customer data and produced data visualizations using Python and Plotly that were featured in customer-facing product.- Identified bottlenecks in email deliverability product through SQL queries and development of internal Chartio dashboards; insights used by engineering to fix bugs and reduce time to send.

Mountain View, California, Us

Worked in sales & marketing for ~1 year, took a 6 month sabbatical to improve my engineering skills and returned on the engineering team for ~10 months.Engineering:- Developed software for electrical rack that incorporated multiple sensors, collected data and ran experiments to report on key metrics for lithium ion batteries.- Provided evidence for engineers to make hardware and software changes before production by identifying outliers and issues in riding telemetry.- Created KPIs for engineering teams evaluating product performance from test riders highlighting engineering efforts towards hardware launch goals.Sales & Marketing:- Designed and executed on demo and rental offerings at newly partnered retail stores; trained team of contractors to execute on events; over one year, greatly increased revenue- Led marketing team in launch of two new models; coordinated efforts to redesign site, decide on new pricing model, press materials and customer service training; received rave reviews from Wired, TechCrunch, Gizmodo and Tested, among others; had a record-setting sales day- Coordinated efforts between sales and marketing team to launch new integration for same-day delivery service in the SF Bay Area and NY fulfilled by Enjoy (http://enjoy.com); received positive press and reviews- Consistently serviced fleet of 60+ electric longboards, including fixes with pulleys, bearings, belts, fasteners and changing parts; trained new team members on best practices

Ann Arbor, Michigan, Us

- Cofounded & organized 550-person hackathon called MHacks (no 1 in the name); legacy lives on with upcoming MHacks 13- Helped raise $70K from A16Z, Facebook, Braintree, Groupon and others on team of 3 in just 2 months - Co led operations of events and managed team of 25 student volunteersMHacks has raised more than $5M for 10,000 hackers from across the globe to attend.Past keynote speakers include: Sam Altman (President of YC), Alexis Ohanian (Founder of Reddit), Brendan Iribe (Founder of Oculus), and Jeff Lawson (CEO of Twilio).

Bba, Business Administration, Management And Operations

Product Design And Manufacturing Technology