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New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Leading the Merchant App Platform team within Commerce responsible for connecting Square (sellers) with Cash App (buyers). We establish APIs and primitives as well as deliver integrations with Square offerings such as Loyalty, Coupons, Messaging, etc. Our long term goal is to build these integrations in such a way that we can easily extend to additional third-party merchant providers in the future and make Cash App the preferred buyer app for consumers.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Leading the Cortex ML platform team at Twitter responsible for the ML Data focus area. This consists of multiple teams and we are responsible for delivering a next generation offline and online feature store, creating feature engineering frameworks and pipelines, creating an ML data framework that controls data at rest and in flight and provides for efficient ML transformations at scale, as well as partnering with our applied research team working on next-generation graph infrastructure. We partner with teams such as Ads and Twitter Home Timeline and are leveraging Google Cloud Platform for offline ML workflows.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

* Managed 70+ person cross functional engineering organization spread across time zones and was Pittsburgh Engineering Lab Site lead* Launched new AI-based service offering in Dec 2016 that has grown to support tens of thousands of daily active users in ~3 years* Partnered with IBM Research to take cutting edge technologies from proof of concepts to full production features that solve customer problems* Worked daily with Design and Product Management both tactically on ongoing work but also strategically creating future roadmap plans* Worked closely with Watson Platform Team on cross-team initiatives involving items such as Security and Compliance (HIPAA & GDPR) as well as creation of overall AI platform to ensure it meets service’s needs* Service built on modern technology stack (java, Scala, go, python, Kubernetes, docker, OpenShift)* Leveraged agile practices (Kanban, sprints, stand-ups, retrospectives, etc.) to continually improve & experiment on ways to execute in a globally distributed organization at scale* Participated in architecture reviews and creation to ensure consistency across entire product* Led team of engineers in implementing improved cost-efficient multi-tenancy implementation that reduced internal costs over 10x and allowed introduction of new lower-tiered pricing plan that increased & exceeded monthly active organizations goal

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

* Managed team of 10 engineers responsible for end-to-end design, implementation, delivery, and 24/7 support of stateful search service on top of Mesos Marathon* Partnered closely with Marathon open-source community to create first of a kind prototype to support stateful services* Worked closely with IBM Research team and Solr community committers to create Solr-as-a-Service offering used both directly by customers of Retrieve and Rank but more broadly within IBM as the default search platform* Productized IBM Research asset to provide fully trainable advanced learning to rank capabilities on top of Solr* Core technology and use case led to creation of broader Watson Discovery service, which replaced Retrieve and Rank (sunset in 2017, shut down in 2018)

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

* Created java-based SDK to enable high performance, large scale interactions with fully distributed remote search engine* Integrated with big data platforms such as Hadoop and IBM Big Insights* Continued all previous OEM partner related responsibilities from pre-acquisition

* Technical lead on all major OEM partner business development endeavors* Led team of engineers and worked closely with partners to assist in all aspects of integration* Example integration project: Fortune 500 Security Company: Email archiving solution capable of supporting billions of archived items enabled customers to store, manage, and discover unstructured information to support storage optimization, e-discovery, compliance and other strategic objectives* Example integration project: Fortune 500 Security Company: Backup solution capable of supporting search across trillions of indexed records leveraging existing commodity hardware infrastructure* Helped design & refine internal API spec produced specifically for embedded applications* Created POC implementations to meet mutually agreeable acceptance criteria* Held weekly management meetings with partners to gather requirements, design system architecture, track progress of custom development, discuss potential risks to project milestones and goals, and assist in technical integration using API* Traveled to global customer sites for on-site architecture and whiteboard sessions* Launched ‘OEM Quick Start’ program and delivered multiple OEM API training courses and documentation* Assisted in detailed QA of remote API including performance & scalability testing* Led internal Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) team on connector development and services-based integration projects throughout all phases of software development cycle.* Led cross-functional Innovation Team to design and implement custom recommendation engine built on top of Apache Mahout & Apache Hadoop

* Worked with architecture team to lead software lifecycle processes* Trained & mentored junior teammates* Created custom database-driven dynamic routing system for IRS that supported dynamic rules-based routing and allowed changes made to database on-the-fly to take effect in real-time * Implemented and integrated end to end requirements traceability system to achieve CMMI Level III certification.

Bethlehem, Pa, Us

Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Us

Trevose, Pennsylvania, Us

M.S., Computer Science

B.S., Computer Science