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Denver, Co, Us

Instagram & Threads Privacy Foundation Team

Providing full-service consulting and advisory services for early-stage startups building sensitive products, particularly in the AI and social media sectors.

San Francisco, Us

• Onboarded and mentored 3 tech leads for the Privacy, Security, and Trust & Safety areas.• Led high-stakes international responses to deploy new privacy and safety protections for our Italian and Persian communities.

San Francisco, Us

• Led privacy engineering, from standards, to incident management, to fact-finding for regulators, to advising privacy sensitive areas across the company.• Deployed client-side hashing for one of the industry’s largest contact storage systems, in under 4 weeks, to praise from global privacy experts.• Developed Dynamite, a privacy-aware data access layer for DynamoDB. Within 1 week, 3 teams were using it in production. Nearly every new product uses it today.• Launched highly-requested account management and recovery surfaces, along with product infra for user control storage, user consent prompts, and server-defined mobile UI.

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

• Founded and led Privacy Control Infra, a 7-person team in Central Privacy (inc. SWE, TPM, EM) which scaled infra & tooling for 1000+ user-facing settings and controls across Meta’s family of apps.• Developed strategy and oversaw execution of work for 20-year obligations as a recordkeeping owner of Section XIV.E of the 2019 FTC Consent Order.• Proposed foundational privacy engineering tools and abstractions and tooling that hundreds of teams across Meta use daily.• Proposed and led Privacy Adoption Manager, which leveraged machine learning models to help teams save time by adopting privacy abstractions ahead of company-wide Privacy Review process.• Directed turnaround of three of the worst-performing areas of the company-wide Privacy Review process, and wrote the company playbook to enable more teams to do the same.

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

• Proposed and led global deployment of emergency escalations tools for the 2017 Rohingya refugee crisis in Myanmar, a UN Human Rights Council recommendation.• Increased topline metrics for Facebook Lite by proposing and implementing product improvements to trust & safety flows.• Developed ground-truth performance measurement for suicide prevention machine learning models.• Implemented user-friendly appeals flows and operational improvements to support vulnerable groups caught up in enforcement of Facebook’s 'Authentic Names' policy.