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South San Francisco, California, Us

South San Francisco, California, Us

Worked on Stripe Connect. Engineering DRI for crypto payouts on Express and Cross Border Payouts.

South San Francisco, California, Us

– Spearheaded the development of co-authoring as a self-initiated project during the internship, ultimately presenting to the executive team including the Head of Instagram (CEO), VP Engineering, VP Product, and VP Design– Planned, coded, and executed patches removing critical security vulnerabilities affecting millions of user’s contact points [Python]– Redesigned and reimplemented authentication endpoints to reduce account login friction and improve user activation [Python]

San Francisco, California, Us

– Designed and implemented end-to-end authentication for merchants on the main customer support site [React, Python, Django, MongoDB, Golang]– Proposed and architected a patent-pending proactive order risk detection system to boost customer experience [Python, Django]– Resolved a P0 infrastructure bug blocking website access from ~10% of daily users [NodeJS, Nginx, Kubernetes]– Optimized the logging configuration of the web client to filter out irrelevant errors, ultimately decreasing noise by 21% [Sentry, React]

San Francisco, Ca, Us

– Developed a Python backend service to support iOS rich push notifications, resulting in a 20% increase in iOS Daily Active Users (DAU) and a 300% increase in click-through rate (CTR)– Designed experiments and conducted cohort data analysis to optimize impact for the iOS rich push notification project [Python, Hive, SQL]– Built the Python API and React webpage for a new product feed on Wish’s main website [Python, React, Redux, Flow]– Created scripts to distribute campaigns to 140+ million users [Python]– Spearheaded monthly Tech Talks event to improve knowledge sharing among teams

San Francisco, Ca, Us

– Architected API and supporting microservice of new billing system for custom pricing packages [Elixir, Phoenix, Ruby on Rails]– Created Twitter Alert System that tracks keyword trends in real-time, featured on company blog post [Python, Datadogpy, PD API]– Improved trial-conversion rates and customer experience by revamping outdated web application pages [Ember.js, Ruby on Rails, Haml]– Handled team’s technical responsibilities by joining oncall rotation– Connected PD customers to the engineering team through a lightning talk presentation

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

– Built RESTful API and web application that queries and displayscustomer transaction history [Java, Jersey, SQL, Elasticsearch, Angular.js, CSS/LESS]– Reduced memory usage of Docker images on Docker Registry by designing and implementing an automated garbage collector [Java, Bash, Kubernetes, YAML, Elasticsearch, Jenkins]– Continuously maintained microservices hosted with Docker and Kubernetes [Bash, YAML]– Automated unit and integration tests to full deployment[Cucumber/Gherkins, JUnit, Jenkins]

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Ca

– Built new company website with modern web design concepts to improve UX and UI [Drupal, PHP, HTML/CSS, JavaScript]– Modernized legacy software used by ESTI’s top three clients [Visual Basic to C#]– Coded program to parse and display data from enterprise routers for a proof-of-concept [Python, Unix, HTML/CSS]

Enforced the rules of the game with utmost professionalism

Bachelor’S Degree, Computer Engineering

High School