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San Francisco, Ca, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

• Grew a team from 1 to 6 engineers focused on building a data platform that enables stakeholders across Embark to gain access and insights into self-driving data to empower the development of the company's self-driving technology• Worked with product team representatives and stakeholders across the engineering organization while balancing tech debt and team member goals to develop a strategy and plan that aligned to overall company OKRs• Led team on pushes for ease of use of the data platform: abstractions around our internal databases with APIs, abstractions of our Airflow and Spark processing platform to empower ML and Data Science workflows, and faster data access formats• Led design and co-implemented a novel data offloading system to support the company’s roll out of a commercializable product which enabled the selective offloading of vital data from the truck live during operation (Patents Pending)

San Francisco, California, Us

• Redesigned and developed the data importing system used to offload terabytes of data into the cloud from trucks each day using Python, MySQL, and Amazon S3• Redesigned and developed a data recording tool for the truck capable of handling 300 MBps of data using C++ and ROS• Designed and developed a distributed data playback mechanism that enables engineers to test hours of self-driving data within minutes using ROS, Python, Docker, Kubernetes (Amazon EKS), RabbitMQ, and Amazon S3. Patent pending• Designed and developed a low-latency video streaming for trucks in low LTE conditions using ROS, C++, GStreamer, Redis, and Python• Assisted in the design and development of low-latency streaming of arbitrary data from autonomous vehicles in low LTE conditions using ROS, Python, and Redis (Patent Pending)• Productionalized a teleoperation system for an autonomous trucks used as the book-end for Embark’s demos during its SPAC process using ROS, C++, Python, and GStreamer• Redesigned and built our data access utilities to improve the speed by 10x using C++ (https://github.com/embarktrucks/embag)• Built out a chunked uploading system to empower offloading data live from trucks to Azure Blob service in a reliable manner while operating in extremely unreliable network conditions using Python and Redis• Built out a data request system that enabled users to select data points to be offloaded from the truck using the aforementioned uploading system. Used React, Python, and MySQL.• Developed a simulation tool to determine if lack of human intervention would have resulted in a collision using C++ and ROS. Findings were published as part of Embark’s public 2018 Disengagement Report (https://medium.com/embark-trucks/embark-releases-our-2018-disengagement-report-2f242992141b)

Santa Clara, California, Us

Developed embedded software (C) and machine code used within memory interfaces on FPGAs, as well as Python, Perl, and TCL scripts for testing

San Carlos, California, Us

• Designed and developed a coupon like system for user registration and managementusing Node.js, Postgres, AWS Cognito, Amazon EC2, Docker, and Auth0• Designed and Developed a statically hosted website to interact with the backend systemusing React + Redux, Amazon S3, and Auth0• Created various ETLs for a data warehouse using Node.js, Postgres, and RabbitMQ

Austin, Texas, Us

Developed and maintained data import and export software using C# and SQL

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Developed web scrapers for financial documents using Node.js and PhantomJS

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Developed internal portal for launching various applications using Javascript, JQuery, and C#