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New York, Ny, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

- Led multi-team initiative to overhaul and maintain Dropbox’s financial reporting pipelines that deliver key subscription metrics (e.g. ARR, churn, retention, WAU). Improved data freshness SLAs from 48 hours to 1 hour.- Orchestrated a 0-to-1 project on mobile data metrics, facilitating collaboration across multiple upstream and downstream teams. Led exploratory work and provided multiple go-forward options. Communicated engineering cost allocations and downstream impacts to stakeholders.- Played a key role in expanding the financial data engineering team by actively participating in the recruitment and hiring process for both FTE and contract positions. Engaged in onboarding and mentoring new engineers to ensure a smooth integration into the team.- Lead data engineer responsible for delivering reseller invoicing pipelines which is expected to bring over $70M in additional revenue.- SME for financial data assets at the company. Collaborated closely with business development and data science teams to ensure timely delivery of financial reports, conduct business trends analysis, and provide pricing/packaging recommendations.- Assumed a primary role in supporting quarter-end and year-end financial invoicing and reporting activities, ensuring accuracy and timeliness in financial operations.

Carlsbad, Ca, Us

- Led the MLOps team in operationalizing machine learning models and developing high-throughput (>30 fps) real-time model serving infrastructure.- Built various data ingestion pipelines utilizing technologies like Spark, Kafka, Hadoop, and Docker to extract network and operations data.- Spearheaded efforts to organize the key data assets, providing data transparency and discoverability to facilitate informed decision-making.- Acted as team scrum master, ensuring alignment with stakeholders and maintaining the engineering backlog.- Designed and implemented the team’s CI/CD pipeline to facilitate efficient software development and delivery, advocating for adoption of similar methodologies across adjacent teams.- Collaborated cross-functionally to define data exchange interfaces and SLAs, ensuring seamless data integration across departments.

San Diego, Ca, Us

- Founding engineer at the company. Led a team in building the company’s end-to-end IoT offering.- Designed IoT cloud backend which enabled seamless device communication, app orchestration, and customer API customization.- Developed Java and Objective-C client SDKs to control and coordinate smart home devices.- Managed software releases, collaborating directly with clients to optimize user experiences and expedite time-to-market.- Led software implementation of a "universal IoT translation" module showcased at CES 2017, fostering ongoing business partnerships.- Implemented onboarding and mentorship programs to enhance team effectiveness and skill development.

San Diego, Ca, Us

- Implemented developer-friendly Android and iOS libraries to interact with AllJoyn IoT lighting framework. Successfully led efforts to open source and transition to Allseen Alliance governance.- Contributed to development efforts and collaborated with LIFX to successfully launch the first AllJoyn-certified lighting products. - Implemented firmware for Qualcomm AllPlay wireless streaming devices. Provided integration with 3rdParty streaming services such as Spotify and Apple AirPlay. - Created prototypes which incorporated multiple Qualcomm technologies to demonstrate seamless interactions between IoT devices and smartphones. These products were successfully demoed at Mobile World Congress, CES, and senior leadership.

San Jose, Ca, Us

- Contributed to the launch of the first beta of WebEx Social, a cloud-based enterprise product. - Developed automation tools to configure, deploy, and rollback VM clusters with customer specific configurations and access controls. Reduced deployment times by nearly 50%. - Identified inefficiencies in service approval and procurement stages between storage, routing, and computing teams. Streamlined efforts by implementing automating SLA breach alerting.

Carlsbad, Ca, Us

- Developed a framework for program agnostic data exchange centered around an existing Oracle Agile PLM system.- Implemented tools to reduce errors and speed up data synchronization between internal tools. Reduced overall time to synchronize from 10+ hours to less than 1 hour.- Created a program for XML filtering and data exporting in order to create full, incremental, and differential backups.