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San Francisco, CA, US

San Francisco, California, US

Acquired by Moody's (NYSE:MCO) in February 2024

Cupertino, California, US

San Francisco, California, US

Routing for 1st, 2nd and 3rd party self driving vehicles on lane level HD maps

San Francisco, California, US

• Rewrote billing and payment infrastructure supporting Uber for Business, Uber for Family, UberHealth and UberEvents to provide significantly increased reliability, durability and visibility resulting in reduced support.
• Rewrote Uber for Business backend organization and employee platform using a NoSQL database, Elasticsearch and asynchronicity to eliminate load capacity issues and support our largest organizations with over 100,000.
• Architected and implemented the backend used for launching UberCentral on the Uber for Business platform
• Designed and developed systems and tools that reduced fraud on the Uber for Business platform by 48%

Northfield, MN, US

• Investigated subfield of computer vision involving 3D reconstruction of an environment based on 2D images using self-calibrating camera techniques
• Performed mathematics research in partition theory, a subfield of combinatorics, resulting in a published paper

Northfield, MN, US

Northfield, MN, US

• As part of the High Performance Computing team, worked with professors to solve large scale computing problems in their academic research by developing efficient programs utilizing St. Olaf’s Beowulf cluster

Northfield, MN, US

• Maintained St. Olaf subdomains and tutored seniors in web technologies as they created web portfolios
• Provided students and faculty with technical assistance on computer/network problems at IT Help Desk

New York, NY, US

• Worked as a member of the “Tastes” team (responsible for algorithmically categorizing, ranking, and justifying venues)
• Completed eighteen enhancements and four large-scale projects, including distributed computations on all Foursquare data
• Collaborated with another team member to reduce the latency of one of the most requested service calls by 50%

Verona, WI, US

• Engineered a personalization engine to recommend user interface layouts based on a user’s prior navigation history
• Devised and developed an algorithm to interpret a user’s data and characteristics after performing statistical analysis on previously collected user data and coordinating discussions with current customers and full.
• Achieved inclusion of the personalization engine, along with its extensible API and GUI, in the 2015 product release cycle

• Founded business providing website design, development, and support services to seven organizations that were secured and had initial projects completed within the first summer
• Utilize a custom-developed PHP framework, MySQL, HTML, CSS, and Javascript following best practices

• Designed and developed, in less than 15 hours, an app with four complex calculators relevant to geothermal installation, including a framework to unlock functionality through passcodes