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Kirkland, Wa, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Engineering Director- Covers 7 areas including Data Infrastructure, Experimentation, Server Core Infrastructure, Adventure Sync, Social Platform and Identity Platform- Responsible for overseeing Niantic's data platform which includes large-scale data infrastructure and Niantic's homegrown marketing and experimentation platform. Recently also started overseeing core game platform teams. Our stack spans the backend servers, mobile client and web. - Manages a team of 30 engineers including 3 managers. Grew engineering managers from within the team.- Drive overall technical and high level product direction of our in-house a/b testing and omni-chanel marketing solution. The Omni-channel marketing solution spans push notifications, e-mails and in-app messages and directly contributes to revenue and retention and user engagement metrics.- One of the primary drivers of the Niantic Voyager / Apprenticeship Program, a DEI program designed to bring in talent from non-traditional sources

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Tech Lead and Engineering Manager for Platform Analytics, Data Engineering- Built and manages a team from 0 to 20 software engineers. Responsible for hands on coding, conducting code reviews, architecture review as well as people management. Responsible for working with product to come up with a technical roadmap and driving it to completion.Technologies used: Google Cloud, Kubernetes, Java, Unity, C#, Spanner, BigQuery, BigTable, Dataflow

Redmond, Washington, Us

Feb 2015 - Jan 2018: Asimov - Data Pipeline for all of Windows, Windows Phone and Xbox- High throughput service (360k+ RPS)- Tech: Hadoop Stack (Azure Data Lake / Cosmos), NoSQL (DocDB / CosmosDB), Push Notification (Windows Notification Services)Aug 2012 - Feb 2015: Visual Studio Online- Started and pioneered a big data project, aimed at understanding the telemetry we have collected from running a customer facing online service- Tech: Hadoop MapReduce, Hive

Champaign, Il, Us

Project headed by Prof. Robin Kravets and Prof. Tarak AbdelzaherWorked with embedded systems, hardware and also networking.Working on operating systems team this semester, taking care of the OS aspect of the project.See below for the paper published

Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hk

1. Investigated Security of virtual network- Integrated VPN technology (with openVPN) with Virtual Networks to encrypt traffic and prevent eavesdropping from other virtual machines- Investigated ebtables which can provide individual virtual machines with their own firewall2. Implemented the Group and User Management module, one of the four major components of the cloud computing platform