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The AI Copilot for Insurance AgentsTech: FastAPI, React+Vite, pgvector, LLMs

- Ran engineering for the mortgage and personal finance business during ZIRP- Accountable for the lead generation platform, upstream of $500M+ in annual revenue- Oversaw initiatives on product and platform engineering teamsTech: Ruby on Rails, React, Postgres, AWS, Datadog

As an early employee (2nd engineer, 8th overall), I helped build the Karat platform, invent interview engineering (our core product comprising interview methodology, questions, evaluation), and handle anything else that came up in typical startup fashion. Over the course of five years, I wore many hats including product ideation, late-night coding, hiring across multiple roles, and people management. As a company, we went from seed stage to unicorn during this time, 100x on our valuation (https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/13/karat-raises-110m-on-a-1-1b-valuation-to-grow-its-technical-interviewing-as-a-service-platform). My proudest accomplishment was helping to build a team that can sustain itself successfully beyond my day-to-day tenure.Tech: Ruby on Rails, React, Postgres, AWS

- Helped monetize Windows 10 through the First Run Experience, Retail Demo Experience, and Shell Offers (ads in the start menu, yeah I know...)- Worked across the full stack including operating systems, native applications, and web applicationsTech: C++, C#, UWP, JS

15-122 Principles of Imperative Computing (1 semester)15-213 Introduction to Computer Systems (2 semesters)73-315 Market Design (1 semester)Held recitations and office hours, developed problems, and graded homework and exams in the computer science and economics departments

Windows Blue - Start Menu personalizationTech: C++, WinRT

I interned the summer before the IPO, back when most people didn’t have smartphones yet, making it in China was the top goal, and the Social Network just came out (we'd ask Zuck about it at all hands). I worked on the first version of Timeline (the modern profile page), specifically cover photos, life events, and the friends tab.Tech: PHP, React before it was "React"

Machine learning training tasks used by films and theme parksTech: Python

Starting in the 4th grade and up through high school, I played at gigs and accompanied musicians at performances, competitions, and events. I'll still do it if there's anyone who needs a pianist!Tech: Piano