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San Francisco, Ca, Us

San Francisco Bay Area

Conducted technology consulting, full-stack web development, and enterprise application development across diverse organizations, from startups to large corporations.Selected clients:● An AI research organization—— Established a 25-person cross-functional team to build a system to create critical data products (text corpora) for the development of LLM interpretability. The system enabled arbitrarily many data producers to cohesively contribute to a singular body of work, delivering a 5-million-word text corpus in 6 months.—— To ensure data quality and diversity, built a peer-review system, a trust-based promotion system,and a tiered payout system, resulting in a mean self-BLEU score of 0.11● An e-commerce company with millions of users.—— Architected and implemented product shipping and return workflows, and an AI recommender system, increasing subscription renewal rates by 20% over 3 months.—— Ideated and developed a dynamic flexible schema administration panel, allowing business users to define new fields on-the-fly, freeing up 25% of engineering bandwidth on an ongoing basis.—— Identified an opportunity to integrate BI tools by establishing a data warehouse and ETL pipeline,working with key stakeholders to align interests, resulting in the elimination of costly custom-builtreports and freeing up another 25% of engineering team bandwidth.● A location-based mobile ads startup—— Led development of the company’s pre-pivot flagship product—a unique location-based physicalcommerce concept—from data model design to product launch.—— Designed the system such that minimal refactoring was required for a rapid relaunch when thestartup pivoted from physical commerce to ads.● A climate change international NGO—— Developed a location-based interactive digital media web app for Al Gore’s climate change nonprofit, which was featured during a global fundraising event and handled a peak load of 1000s ofconcurrent users.

New York, New York, United States

● Recruited a team of 5 engineers and led them through the development of the company’s main product - a web (Ruby on Rails, Redis, Postgres, AWS) and mobile (iOS) technical talent and jobs marketplace - from inception to launch, within 4 months.● Ideated, architected, and implemented a real-time interactive SMS chat system using Twilio, an internal candidate search engine using Opensearch (formerly Elasticsearch), and a subscription payments system using Stripe.● Developed the data model, implemented the backend using a RESTful API with microservices, and established a data pipeline with web scraping to populate the database. (Ruby, Postgres, AWS)● Traveled to events and conferences to give product demos and technical talks.

Greater New York City Area

● Developed and maintained a solution for the computation of risk analytics using Monte Carlo simulations, and the programmatic generation of PowerPoint presentations. Developed a multi-platform data pipeline, where data is extracted from a data warehouse, transformed with XSLT, and loaded onto a Windows server. (Java, ASP.NET, C#, DB2, MSSQL Server)● Developed a desktop application for trading teams to size and analyze option trades. (Java, DB2)● Successfully deployed a replicated copy of the division’s database in Switzerland, synchronizing with business units for the rollout of new Swiss Banking system. (Java, Spring, Hibernate, DB2)● Developed a tool to measure database API performance and utilized the tool to identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks, reducing average application query time by 30%. (DB2)

Greater New York City Area

● Developed a highly flexible data extraction application for the database team, allowing business units to self-service data requests, increasing team bandwidth by 20%. (Java, Spring, DB2)

Bachelor'S, Double Major In Computer Science (Concentration In Ai) And Applied Math

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