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San Francisco, California, US

San Francisco, California, US

• Led a cross-platform team of ~10 engineers in building out a new product surface across the browser extensions and desktop apps. Improved project status from “at risk” to projecting an on-time delivery.
• Prototyped, designed, and built a native-messaging-based connector between the Chrome browser extension and the Mac app.
• Led a cross-platform team of 9 engineers in designing and building a solution to allow feature engineers at Grammarly to deploy features built using web technology to the browser Extensions, Mac app, and Windows app.
• Prototyped, designed, and built a solution that used the web implementation of the AI-powered assistant in the native apps, reducing engineering effort ~3x for new AI-powered assistant features and bug fixes.
• Led a team of 4 engineers building and iterating on the Mac implementation of Grammarly’s AI-powered assistant and shipped it on time to all free, paid, and Enterprise users.
• Architected and led a team of 3 engineers in building a server-driven UI renderer that now powers the majority of surfaces in our Mac app.

Emeryville, CA, US

• Reimplemented the Control iOS application and shipped it on time for the company’s public launch.
• Smoke-jumped to stabilize the Installer Mac application two weeks before public launch, reducing the number of blocking issues to zero.
• Refactored and rewrote parts of the proprietary networking protocol and implemented a read/write lock pattern, increasing performance and enabling protocol error reporting.
• Designed and implemented an Ogg Opus transcoder using open-source libraries, increasing the number of supported audio file formats from one to 11.
• Designed and implemented a feature to visualize, filter, and save Spatial system logs from within the Mac and iOS apps, increasing the number of bug reports accompanied by logs.
• Contributed features and bug fixes to the Mac and iOS applications and maintained the on-premises CI solution.

Cupertino, California, US

Cupertino, California, US

• Designed and implemented an iPad app that controlled a ROS-based system for manual control of an automated robot.
• Designed and implemented a safety-critical multi-daemon Human-Machine Interface using AppleTV hardware, communicating across several networks with other networked nodes.
• Designed and implemented a C library, Objective-C framework, and Objective-C daemon for communicating with a proprietary badge reader, and deployed it on an iPad with a ported serial USB driver.
• Designed and implemented a data collection system consisting of an iOS app, the aforementioned badge reader, a Java web service, and a web page, to enable research into intra-campus shuttle usage.
• Extended an internal compiler and chip driver debugger to include STAB debug symbols to enable compiler/driver engineers to “pretty print” tensor variables while debugging.
• Maintained and extended a Java big data web service for storing annotation artifacts to enable continued development after a RIF.

San Francisco, CA, US

• Led the release process of the rewritten iOS application, implemented sprints and an bug scrub process, burned down to zero blockers, and delivered within a week of the expected date.
• Contributed features and bug fixes to the flagship Objective-C/C# Mac application and Windows application using C# and the Mono framework.
• Implemented features in a rewrite of the flagship iOS app to reduce tech debt and support a new iOS 7-based user interface, collaborating closely with the Product team.
• Promoted to Platform Lead in 2014, responsible for the engineering and delivery of the iOS and Mac applications.

Waltham, MA, US

• Extended or implemented Mac, iOS, backend, and web apps according to customer specifications and contracts, using Groovy, Java, Node.JS, HTML / CSS / Javascript, and Objective-C.
• Clients included Panera Bread, Weight Watchers, Fidelity Investments, WestJet, Otsuka Health and ALEX AND ANI.

• Implemented, tested, and deployed web sites according to customer specifications and contracts using PHP, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Attended customer sales calls and determined work feasibility.
• Set up and administered the internal development server and customer hosting for 30+ customers.

Providence, Rhode Island, US

Internship in Dr. Tricia Serio's laboratory, conducting experiments on S. cerevisiae deletion strains to determine the effects of the deleted genes on mRNA degradation as it relates to gene expression regulation.

I was a classroom assistant in this bilingual American/French school in Paris, France, working with a level CE1 class (US grade 2) teaching French grammar and Science.

I was a classroom assistant in this bilingual primary school.