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Redmond, Washington, Us

- Developed a latency analysis pipeline for the Office Collaboration Service, which powers real-time, multi-user document editing in O365.- Used this new data and worked with other feature crews to reduce document editing latencies by over 80% over the span of a year.- Currently co-leading a multi-year effort to rearchitect the service by changing how state is distributed, with the goal of improving reliability and scalability, reducing cost, and enabling containerization.

New York, Ny, Us

Appointment for the Advanced Programming (COMS W3157) course, which serves as an introduction to C and systems programming and is targeted at students who have mainly taken Java-based introductory sequences.Helped deliver weekly review sessions, held weekly office hours, graded labs and exams and helped organize and secure sponsorships for the course's hackathon (see https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~w3157/hackathon/).Head TA from Fall 2018 to Spring 2019. Producer and editor for the course YouTube channel at https://youtube.com/cs3157.

New York, Ny, Us

Appointment for the Art of Engineering (ENGI E1006) lab session in computer science and computer engineering. The course is freshmen-only, and as a TA for this lab session I helped introduce new students to CS concepts and embedded programming in C using an HP 20b calculator.For the Fall 2017 semester the focus of the lab changed to focus on statistical applications of CS, being taught in Python and asking students to analyze datasets on public health and opiate use to help find causes of and solutions to the opioid crisis in the United States.

Redmond, Washington, Us

- Specced and implemented the "Remove from List" function in Office 365's "Recommended" service, both on the back-end and Office.com front-end.- Added "removed documents" as a data analysis signal to make recommendations more relevant in the future, while honoring data privacy and residency requirements.- Optimized the recommendation engine and delivered a ~60% reduction in memory use to make it more scalable and cost-effective.

Redmond, Washington, Us

- Did user research and competitor research about web notifications and delivered recommendations on how to use them effectively.- Integrated Chrome and Firefox's Notification APIs into the Office 365 notification service and delivered a proof-of-concept on Office.com.

- Tracked and resolved issues with the university's administrative tools.- Conceptualized and started development on a new website for organizing undergraduate activities.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Computer Science

Regents Diploma With Advanced Designation

Computer Science