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San Francisco, California, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Launched a new neighborhood-centric destination focused on delivering the most relevant hyperlocal content and social engagement to users (http://beta.local.yahoo.com) • Partnered with my manager and PMs to gather product requirements, researched on design and implementation, broke down the requirements into engineering tasks, scoped these tasks, managed a team of engineers to develop them, and managed the project itself (establishing milestones, managing resources, resolving conflicts and dependencies, building relationships with dependent teams).• Spearheaded the engineering process, which included setting up infrastructure and mentoring engineers.• Managed site-ops (Capacity planning, CapEx, system setup, failover, troubleshooting, and optimization).• Led development of the Continuous Deployment (Daily Release) workflow enabling our team to push changes and new features to production quickly.Led the design, development, and optimization of countless features and modules for Yahoo! Local, including designing and developing RESTful APIs, an algorithm for grouping locales for data sharding, and a feed management platform for editors to manage feeds, test changes in a sandbox environment, and deploy to production on-the-fly without complex release processes.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Led the globalization of the Yahoo! Local frontend• Worked with Local leads from each market to generate a feature matrix for Local site across all markets and defined core functionality and phasing for Global Local codebase.• Conducted feature complexity/dependency analysis, which included the development of prototypes, and proposed project roadmaps based on different resourcing scenarios.• Spearheaded the engineering process, which included setting up infrastructure, mentoring engineers new to global development, and organizing technology trainings and weekly design reviews.• Generated frontend customizability instructions and best practices to ensure each market can smoothly adopt the globalized Local codebase while satisfying their regional customization requirements.• Worked with PMs, Local leads from each market, and globalizaton architects to gather product requirements, researched on design and implementation, broke down the requirements into engineering tasks, scoped these tasks, and led a team of engineers to develop them.Led the development of countless features and modules (frontend and backend) for Yahoo! Frontpage, Yahoo! Local, Yahoo! Local! Neighbors, and Yahoo! Yellowpage, including rewriting the Yahoo! Local codebase in MVC-style framework, implementing new Web 2.0 frontend, adding new and rewriting old utility APIs, writing server-side scripts to support client-side dynamic features.Optimized many codebase/components including optimizing existing geospatial search algorithm in MySQL for 10x performance gain.

Stanford, Ca, Us

Led all design and development of a web application that automates digital online archiving of distinguished faculty papers and generates visualizations of their legacy.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us