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I work on the Instagram Equity team focused on product fairness, inclusion, and equity.https://about.instagram.com/blog/announcements/equity-updates-what-weve-been-up-to-and-what-comes-next

Specialized in large-scale framework projects in the central privacy space, including building privacy APIs across multiple tech stacks and supporting cross-app privacy infrastructure changes.

Supported a collection of products within the Social Good organization, including Safety Check and Community Help, which enable communities to stay informed on, prepare for, recover, and rebuild from crises such as hurricanes, wildfires, floods, and more.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Designed and developed a full-stack implementation of the payments batch correction tool that corrects database inconsistencies and fulfills previously failed transactions as promised. Built RESTful APIs in Java and handled JSON requests and responses to edit and update transaction information in the core database. Structured the code such that future developers can easily extend the tool's functionalities, and created a clean user interface for user review and submission that gives real-time status updates.

Berkeley, Ca, Us

Fall 2016, Spring 2017 semestersTaught a weekly discussion and lab section as well as held office hours for UC Berkeley's introductory programming course for both computer science/electrical engineering and computer science majors and non-majors.Collaborated with fellow course staff in preparing, reviewing, and revising course assignments to help students build a better understanding of the material. Assisted with proctoring, grading, and providing feedback on exams aimed to strengthen core programming fundamentals. Coordinated the MapReduce lab for ~1000 students in collaboration with Databricks, and organized the final Scheme project recursive art contest.

Berkeley, Ca, Us

Summer 2015, Fall 2015, Spring 2016 semestersProvided academic support for students in an introductory programming class by holding weekly small group and one-on-one tutoring sessions that aimed to strengthen their programming skills and understanding of fundamental concepts. Assisted students with debugging and troubleshooting on homework, lab assignments, and projects during lab sections and office hours.

Berkeley, Ca, Us

Supported the online presence for UC Berkeley's student-run newspaper, The Daily Californian, and provided student journalists with a platform for broader reach by providing upkeep and implementing new designs for dailycal.org.

Berkeley, Ca, Us

Assisted Dr. Fenna Sillé’s research projects on environmental health and immunology, with a focus on the effects of arsenic environmental exposures on DNA, RNA, and protein as well as the corresponding development of cancers and diseases resulting from environmental exposures.Collected, organized, and analyzed data for projects. Performed literature searches to gather background on projects and research implementations of procedures. Carried out lab experiments for research projects, including: setting up, maintaining, and harvesting cell cultures; extracting DNA, RNA, and protein from cells; running assays on extracted DNA, RNA, and protein (proficient with RT-qPCR, RiboGreen/PicoGreen, NanoDrop machines).

Bachelor’S Degree, Computer Science, Cognitive Science

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