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San Francisco, US

Menlo Park, California, US

• Co-founded team to reduce Robinhood’s high AWS spend and manage our cloud capacity. Per the 2021 Q1 earnings report, Robinhood spent $54M on Cloud infrastructure services over that 3 month period
• Built cost observability and recommendation tools powered by PySpark data pipelines and Looker dashboards
• Discovered and solved waste and performance issues across Robinhood’s entire stack.
• Led the engineering organization to reduce Robinhood’s AWS TCO by 40% year over year. This was a significant factor in Robinhood reaching EBITDA profitability in 2022Q3.
• Sustained our cost reduction by implementing team-level cost attribution and an org-wide cost accountability program.

Menlo Park, California, US

• Directly contributed to or led the team through multiple reliability-focused initiatives, including Kafka cluster multi-AZ resiliency, chaos testing and the introduction of a producer sidecar proxy
• Improved the observability, reliability and ergonomics of our internal Python Kafka client. Co-presented at Kafka Summit 2021
• Scaled our critical path Kafka clusters through the January 2021 Gamestop traffic surge
• Served in the on-call rotation and mitigated multiple SEV1 incidents
• Spent the first 6 months as an individual contributor on the Software Platform team. Rolled out a Python HTTP client for enhanced call graph observability and built infrastructure to horizontally shard our core.

Menlo Park, California, US

• Managed the transition from mutable, VM-based infrastructure to a PaaS built on Kubernetes
• Grew the team from 6 to 12 engineers
• Spent the first 3 months onboarding as a Backend Engineer. Projects included a major Django version upgrade for our core brokerage application and leading a mass migration off of a legacy Kafka clusterIn addition, I.
• Co-founded our SEV Program, leading blameless weekly SEV Review meetings and quarterly SEV Retrospectives
• Served as a member of the “Air Traffic Controller” (Incident Commander) on-call rotation
• Led infrastructure due diligence and onboarding for the Say Technologies acquisition

Mountain View, CA, US

• Managed Coursera’s Infrastructure Engineering team (later called Platform Engineering). The team focused on developer experience,​ ​DevOps,​ cloud ​infrastructure,​ ​security,​ ​continuous​ ​delivery​, performance.
• Grew the team from 4 to 17 engineers. Had the best retention of any engineering team, retaining 6 core team members for 4 to 5 years.
• Led the team through numerous significant accomplishments: migrating our PHP monolith to microservices, running our first cross-region Disaster Recovery exercise, implementing modern, immutable frontend.
• Heavily​ ​involved​ ​in​ technical ​leadership,​ ​including​ ​the​ ​research,​ ​planning​ ​and execution ​of​ ​an​ ​18-month​ ​Long-term​ ​Architecture​ ​project​ ​for​ ​our​ ​70-person​ ​engineering organization.
• Remained​ ​very​ ​technical​ ​in​ ​my​ ​management​ ​role​ by implementing tools, fixing issues (off the critical path) and reviewing technical designs. Remained on-call during my entire tenure at Coursera.
• Working at a startup, I wore many other hats, including vendor procurement, AWS budget management, information security and privacy, security incident response, supporting legal inquiries + contract review and more.

Mountain View, CA, US

• As​ a ​founding​ ​member​ ​of​ ​the​ ​infrastructure​ ​team,​ ​I​ ​worked​ ​with​ ​incredibly​ ​talented​ ​colleagues​ in
• Building Coursera’s ​microservice​ ​architecture on Scala, Cassandra and AWS
• Designing​ ​and prototyping​ ​our​ ​internal​ ​REST​ ​framework​ ​(Naptime)
• Setting​ ​up​ continuous delivery, monitoring and logging infrastructure
• Introducing Kafka for messaging, monitoring and realtime analytics use cases

Sunnyvale, CA, US

• Joining the company fairly early on, I've had the privilege of working with some amazing engineers on many cool product and infrastructure projects at LinkedIn. Here a few of my favorite accomplishments thus far while.
• rest.li: Designed and implemented the initial version of LinkedIn's next-generation RESTful service invocation framework.
• Twitter integration: Designed and implemented account linking and bi-directional status synchronization between LinkedIn and Twitter using Twitter's Streaming API, REST APIs and OAuth.
• Internal 'firehose': a realtime stream of all updates and activity on LinkedIn, built using Kafka, a high-throughput distributed messaging system (http://sna-projects.com/kafka). This data stream powers LinkedIn Signal.
• Site-wide sharing: Designed and implemented the new rich sharing module on the home page and a generic 'object sharing' dialog for the rest of the site. This project also included the implementation of our link.
• LinkedIn Groups: Led a small team that took our fledgling Groups product from a simple badge on your profile to a vital professional collaboration space and a major engagement driver for the site

Palo Alto, CA, US

Developed and maintained VMware's backend e-commerce systems.

Livermore, CA, US

Developed medium-large scale business applications for internal Lab use (5000 users). Led efforts to develop in-house Java architecture and software tools. Evangelized Java technology to in-house development teams.

San Luis Obispo, CA, US

Led development of Java web applications for campus organizations and external clients.