Frontend Contribution:- Implemented multiresolution UI and interface to Shaka Player- Improved player reliability from 97% to 99.7%Backend Contribution:- Refactored electron with Typescript, reducing maintenance costs- Improved the media server's reliability and streamlined logging interfacesPeopleware Contribution:- Mentored peers to take up managerial functions- Advocated for pair programming and collaboration

Frontend Contribution:- Migrated legacy client-side rendering to server-side rendering on Youtube iOS app, reducing UI deploy time from months to days- Tech-led and launched a new dialog format that includes GIFs, increasing sign-ups to Premium by 2%Backend contribution:- Experiment-launched server-side C++ code to the new presentation library, improving long-term maintainability- Refactored legacy code paths to enable custom CTA color configurationsOrganizational Contribution:- Mentored and provided technical guidance to newer team members, allowing them to ship code sooner than expected- Re-wrote a goal-based planning document to augment training for teams to boost their productivity 2x or more (20% project)- Interviewed dozens of candidates for technical competency at L3 and L4About the team:Nitrate FE (Front-end) is a part of Music & Premium at YouTube, responsible for the presentation layer that drives paid subscriptions to 50M + users. Our team faces unique challenges across mobile, web, and TV interfaces, connecting marketers to any subset of Youtube's users at Google scale. As a support team, our ultimate goal is to engage users to join Music/Premium such that Youtube creators can get paid more consistently.

React Native development, Objective-C native development, localization, native modules

iOS, Full Stack Web, React Native, ReactBusiness development, website implementation

#1 Lifestyle app on App Store USA (March 2018)Scaled from 0 to 150k daily users and facilitated growthTurned prototype legacy Objective-C code into highly modular, readable, Swift code

Fitplan is a fitness app that helps gym goers exercise. They get their workout programs from a variety of celebrity athletes and follow them exercise-by-exercise. I was asked to turn their vision into a functioning app on the app store. When scope creeped and I was forced to clean up the project. In the first six weeks, I had committed 42,000 deletions and 27,000 insertions into git. Since I started working at Fitplan, we moved from a waterfall-like feedback time of months per specification to Scrum-based biweekly feedback loop, into a continuous development workflow with each incremental request from design being fulfilled in minutes.

I helped Lighthouse Labs as a Teaching Assistant since the first cohort of the iOS program. That's when I met other iOS developers and made huge leaps in my capacity to make great apps. During this time, I became proficient at fetching API data, modelling user interactions, and controlling views. I also got really good at explaining things.

Developed an MVP for a rich personal communications app, where each video message is filtered, elastically transcorded, and sent as a link to a text message to anyone in my contacts.Videos could be edited automatically with mobile apps instead of paying thousands of dollars for a professional. So I ventured to make an automatic video editing app. When I found that Android does not have an AVFoundation equivalent, I had to learn iPhone development quickly. I was naive to think that my first startup's first project will be the unicorn, but it was the biggest motivation for me to learn the necessary skills to help me become a developer.

I had the privilege to be a Teaching Assistant under the direction of Jason Ho for the course 'Introduction to Marketing' last semester. It was a fantastic experience for me. I led weekly tutorials and graded all assignments for 60 students. When some students disputed their grades, I clearly explained how they came to receive the marks that they got. Most importantly, I learned that discussion is where I let others speak first to facilitate, not lead, discussion.