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New York, United States

Santa Clara, CA, US

I'm a backend engineer and Tech Lead for the Time To Value team at Lightstep, building features to help customers more quickly achieve insights from ServiceNow Cloud Observability

San Francisco, CA, US

As Tech Lead of the new Metrics Platform team, I focused on delivering an internal analytics platform that enables Twitter's product builders to measure what's important. Our metrics help teams make data-driven decisions and improve the performance and health of Twitter's products and features.

San Francisco, CA, US

• As a backend engineer on the Video Data Infrastructure team, my focus has been on rearchitecting Twitter's high-scale media engagement aggregation analytics pipeline. The project includes:
• Employing Google Cloud Platform managed services including Dataflow for distributed compute and BigQuery and Bigtable databases for storing and serving results
• Migrating from lambda to kappa architecture to more quickly serve accurate analytics to customers while saving costs
• Managing infrastructure as code with Terraform to reduce errors in GCP resource management
• Guiding high level design to ensure high standards around privacy and protection of data, observability, reliability, and securityBeyond the project work of a software developer, I take on other roles at Twitter.
• TwitterU Boston ambassador working on enriching Twitter's learning community, especially in the Boston office

Burlington, MA, US

• As a senior software engineer on the Analytics team, I:
• Gave internal developers, implementation specialists, and customers visibility into the 128T product operations and the traffic it routes by contributing to the design and implementation of our metrics and events.
• Held the modern C++ code base to high design standards with specification and code reviews
• Lead in the appropriate use and data modeling of NoSQL databases in our product like Apache Cassandra and InfluxDB

Burlington, MA, US

Engineer for the Analytics and Systems teams focused on developing simple yet powerful statistics and analytics backend services using cutting edge technologies

Waterloo, Ontario, CA

• C++ coder for the DocumentsToGo Engine team in support of expanding mobile office capabilities on BlackBerry10 and Android.
• Introduced thorough support for Microsoft's.doc binary format as the primary contributor for the format as part of the multi-year WordToGo Overhaul project, which involved following Microsoft's specifications; adding.
• Supported compliance requirements by researching, designing, and implementing the backend accessibility features for the visually impaired in the SlideshowToGo and WordToGo products
• Improved stability of the WordToGo product by addressing all backend bugs while serving in the role of Code Maintainer
• Created a common library module for the native.doc,.ppt, and.xls formats to use for encrypting and decrypting password protected files

Washington, DC, US

Seasonal software engineer and analyst supporting meso- and grain-scale high explosive detonation simulation. Leveraged US Army High Performance Computing resources as well as the ALE3D DoE finite element code. Collaborated on projects focused on numerical methods, modeling, and analysis with ARDEC members of the Institute for Multiscale Reactive Modeling.

Washington, DC, US

Lewisburg, PA, US

Led and contributed to academic and experiential programming for the Global Residential College and Residential College program as a whole. Specifically planned trips to the UN in New York City and State Department in Washington DC, established an inter-class alumni buddy program, and coordinated special housing, among other activities and responsibilities.

Responsible for safeguarding health and maintaining safe beach & pool conditions.

B.S., Electrical Engineering

Education record

High School Diploma