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New York, NY, US

Santa Monica, California, US

New York, New York, US

Led long-term product strategy and development for search, personalization, and engagement experiences.

Stockholm, Stockholm County, SE

• Headed ML team of 8 engineers to build and evaluate large language models to generate deep content understanding of Spotify’s talk audio catalog at scale and increase overall podcast consumption
• Owned product prioritization and managed 10+ cross-functional customers & stakeholders for a suite of 5+ existing foundational knowledge products that power podcast discovery, recommendations, & listening experiences
• Won 1st place in company-wide hack week for social playlist consumer product “Mixtapes” with support from leadership to bring to market
• Led hack product development with a team of 8 recruited members, ranging from engineers, designers, and user researchers to build prototype and deliver GTM strategy to launch international marketing campaign by 2023

Stockholm, Stockholm County, SE

• Headed 2 engineering teams of 15+ people driving long-term strategy, quarterly roadmaps, delivery milestones, customer outreach, and product development to build ML tools for podcast content understanding tasks
• Led development of an ML classification model to detect hate speech in 80% of podcasts on platform to improve content moderation coverage, enable automation of human review flows, and reduce Trust & Safety risks
• Led development of an on-device podcast transcription service ready for rollout within 1 quarter to increase overall transcription coverage of Spotify’s podcast catalog and enable multiple downstream ML client teams
• Led hack project development for a feature for users to share a transcript audio snippet of a podcast on social media

Stockholm, Stockholm County, SE

• Ran A/B testing and rolled out technical improvements of “Hey Spotify” Voice feature to increase WoWAU
• Directed user research surveying 50+ participants and analyzed feedback on improving Voice experience in the car
• Won 1st place in the 2021 Spotify Opening Act Innovation Challenge for the Product Management Track and awarded summer internship for product management

Irvine, CA, US

• Built and trained convolutional neural networks using Python, Tensorflow, and Keras to scan and classify galaxies
• Classified over 50,000 galaxy images taken from the Spitzer space telescope imaging database with 95% accuracy

Irvine, California, US

• Co-founded UCI’s first product club to teach students about the fundamentals of product management, design, and marketing and led 20+ students in a 30-hour fellowship program to build a product from ideation to launch
• Wrote club’s newsletter with over 300 subscribers and an average open rate of 60-65% every week, featuring segments like “Product of the Week”, weekly roundup of internships, upcoming events and workshops, and more

• Developed a Python program that analyzes and graphs a user’s cellular and wifi usage history, recommends the best data plan for a user based on their cellular data usage, and calculates the best way to optimize wifi.
• Analyzed and graphed the cellular data and Wifi history of users to extrapolate future data usage predictions
• Increased click through rates by 300% and ad viewership to over 10,000 people from self-produced Facebook Ads

• ARTEM is an online platform that aims to create a community for underground artists selling their art for affordable prices. We connect artists, buyers, and art lovers across college campuses onto one platform where.
• Founded an online social e-commerce platform that aims to create a community where student artists can buy, sell, share, and discover affordable, underground art within their college campus
• Awarded $10,000 and placement into UCI Applied Innovation’s Wayfinder Incubator for 1st place in the 2018 UCI New Venture Competition competing against 400+ students, including PHD and MBA candidates
• Led a team of four members, ranging from web developers to graphic designers, to build our platform

Irvine, CA, US

• Consulted 20+ student-run businesses on strategy and provided guidance for early-stage growth
• Fostered entrepreneurship ecosystem at UCI by helping startups navigate and utilize available resources
• Connected entrepreneurs to mentors, subject-matter experts, contractors, and potential team members

Irvine, CA, US

• Launched a video series “Ask an ANTrepreneur (#AAA)” where experts answer student questions about entrepreneurship
• Increased video viewership to an average of 700 to 1,000 views per video from self-produced videos
• Increased event attendance by over 60% compared to previous years by creating informative videos to promote weekly and quarterly events hosted by the ANTrepreneur Center

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computational Physics

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