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New York, NY, US

San Mateo, California, US

• Improved and developed Fauna's core database server.
• Designed and implemented (with other team members) a new DB query language to be used in Fauna databases.
• Operated Fauna's serverless offering: monitoring systems for anomalies, responding to customer-impacting incidents, and writing post-mortem analyses.

San Mateo, California, US

• Senior IC on the Developer Experience team, responsible for Fauna's customer-facing front-end systems.
• Improved and developed product software for authentication, database tooling (web-based and command-line), billing, and 3rd-party integrations.* Developed an integration with Vercel (3rd-party), designing a general.

Mountain View, CA, US

• Supported marketing, business analysts, and data science teams by providing high-quality data sets to drive decision making, attract new users, and retain existing customers.
• Led development of Tiered Financing feature, expanding accessibility of financing to new users by introducing new credit limit tiers. Increased financing approval rate by 9 percentage points.
• Identified and sounded the alarm on a bug with major customer-impacting implications. Gathered and summarized information for engineering, legal, and business development teams across two major product areas and a 3rd.

Mountain View, CA, US

• Provided Google’s mobile partners with insights into 3G and 4G/LTE network quality, derived from a petabyte-scale crowdsourced data set.
• Applied machine learning to automatically tune cell phone towers, improving YouTube performance for 13% of customers in the coverage area.
• Launched overhaul of the Google Maps-based front-end of MNI, with a focus on performance testing and responsiveness.
• Launched a new benchmarking feature, enabling customers to understand competitive network performance.

Burlington, Massachusetts, US

• Lead engineer for the Geospatial area of MarkLogic Server, an enterprise NoSQL multi-model database.
• Led development of Geospatial Region Search, a customer-requested product feature for searching for areas of interest on the surface of the Earth.
• Invented a novel approach to geospatial indexing, based on GeoHashing, resulting in a 2-4x improvement in query performance and two patents.
• Created testing infrastructure for geospatial features, enabling QA to comprehensively test the accuracy of geospatial operations.
• Evangelized adoption of MarkLogic Geospatial by developing interactive demos, talks, and courses for customers and internal sales/consulting teams at MarkLogic World.

Chapel Hill, NC, US

Thesis: Rational Homology Disk Smoothing Components of Weighted Homogeneous Surface SingularitiesAdvisor: Jonathan Wahl

Chapel Hill, NC, US

Taught a variety of Math classes, including Calculus I & II, Multivariable Calculus, Business Calculus, and Pre-calculus.

US

Designed and implemented a feature in Harmonia's LiquidApps software that allowed for the creation of custom documentation and training materials. Implemented a document object model for a new proprietary XML format.

Made improvements to the back-end of the company's flagship news service. Designed and implemented a content & news management system for a high-profile client. Administered web and database servers.

Developed custom dynamic websites for clients using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Flash, ColdFusion, and SQL. Programmed improvements to the company's content management and bulk email services.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Mathematics

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Mathematics And Cognitive Science