Led a distributed, multi-national team responsible for core platform functionality, including a homescreen service and a search service.Worked closely with cross-functional teams, including ML, product, and other engineering teams to drive features that lead to meaningful lift in core KPIs.Lead initiatives resulting in a significant improvement in the reliability and stability of core applications.

Rearchitected a customer-facing analytics application, with a focus on performance, decreasing data loading latencies by up to 50%. Built out suite of internal tooling, allowing internal administrators to access important data quickly.

Built data pipelines and warehousing solutions for a data trading marketplace. Built a recommender system, which suggests observations of interest based on a similarity score derived from seed data supplied by the client.Architected a transaction pipeline, including a generic constraint system and a finite state machine to model stages in a transaction workflow.

Built a realtime data pipeline, which handles 80 billion messages a day.Built a distributed query service that uses AWS Lambda to perform parallel queries of compressed archival files stored in S3 buckets. It's a snappy, cheap way to store and query archival statistical data.Migrated statistics databases to use more effective schema, decreasing complexity and latency.

Managed and advised a team of six reporters covering business and economic news in Russia.Edited stories by staff writers and wire news services for style and content.Translated Russian-language stories from the local press and news agencies into English.Designed and implemented a new media and web development strategy that has expanded thereach of the brand and resulted in a 10 percent uptick in web traffic.Liaised with marketing and sales departments in developing new brand platform and develop-ment strategy.

Assisted the business editor in the editing, writing and translating tasks listed above.Wrote articles on several topics concerning business and economics, especially economic policy.

Supervised a team of two copy editors in preparing each day's newspaper for publication.Edited all articles for concision and style, according to the guidelines of the Associated Press style book.Composed page layouts; prepared and completed final copy.Selected, edited and laid out content for world news pages.

Led crews of four to five people to carry out an environmental impact study in a California national forest for an enterprise unit in the US National Forest Service.Traveled to various National Forests throughout the United States implementing forest health initiatives and geographical information systems mapping.