Starting a new role to bring advanced data analytics and ML to bear on the music business. Hiring infrastructure and data-oriented software engineers at all levels in NYC, TOR, LA, and remote!

2022 - June 2023 Senior Engineering Director, Ads SafetyGrew team to ~300 FTE and established next-generation strategies and metrics for improved quality, safety, advertiser experience, and scaling. Oversaw deployment of new LLM capabilities to overhaul performance. Hired and developed multiple directors.2019 - 2022 Engineering Director / Engineering Lead, Ads IntegrityGrew team to ~250 FTE covering all aspects of Ads Integrity including ML, infrastructure, measurement, and incident management. Partnered across multiple functions to ensure the 200B+ Google ads ecosystem could grow safely. Effectively responded to multiple global emergencies.2015 - 2019 Tech Lead / Manager, Ads IntegrityLed ~50 FTE team primarily focused on machine learning for detection of policy violations in ads creatives and landingpages protecting users and Google from unwanted content and abusive advertisers. Covered hundreds of policies at high QPS; established first formal Ground Truth and measurement regime in the space. Established first elections-related policies and ensured ads for 2018 US midterms were safe and transparent.2011 - 2015 Tech Lead / Manager, Engineering Lead, AdSense for SearchLed ~30 FTE team in optimizing all aspects of Google search partner network, including CTR prediction, auction tuning, advertiser value, expansions to mobile, UI optimization, white-label implementation for Yahoo! Japan, other applications. Responsible for thousands of partners and multi billions in annual revenue.2009 - 2011 Tech Lead, AdSense for SearchLed efforts to optimize Google search ads for the search partner network, including CTR prediction and auction tuning. 2008-2009 Tech Lead, Ads Click Quality.Built models of content relevance applied to predicting user ads experience after the click.2007 - 2008 Software Engineer, Ads Landingpage Quality.Built infrastructure to orchestrate collection of landingpage signals for detection of Ads landingpage policy violations.