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Seattle, Wa, Us

Greater Seattle Area

San Francisco Bay Area

- Tech lead for the Ad Quality Engineering team, the team that built and maintained the set of automated systems and content moderation tools used to halt harmful ads.- Led the full rebuild of the primary internal content moderation tool used to enforce Twitter's advertising policies, modernizing front and backend infrastructure and reducing page load times by 75%.- Created streamlined ML model evaluation process utilizing automated scripts and a simple report template to reduce the assessment time for a candidate model from weeks to days.- Rebuilt advertiser payment fraud detection system utilizing 3rd party Sift for fraud and risk analysis.- Built a 2-part integration with acquired Smyte heuristics system, creating both synchronous and asynchronous mechanisms for halting negative ad content.- Wrote onboarding and interview guides, FAQs, and system architecture overviews and allocated time each day for mentoring and pair programming, reducing onboarding time for new team members and helping engineers advance in their careers.

Williamsburg, Va

- Built and tested optical couplings and for radiation detectors to improve transmission efficiencies.- Performed comparison tests between traditional photodetectors (PMTs) and modern Silicon Photodetectors (SiPMs).

Batavia, Illinois

-Performed test runs and troubleshooting on the prototype scintillation detector for the NOvA neutrino experiment.-Studied excess detector channel noise to identify best practices for future builds

Bachelor’S Degree, Physics, Math

Completed an honors research thesis on constructing and testing radiation detectors with silicon photomultipliers. See the link.

Immersive Software Engineering Program