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Cupertino, California, Us

Los Gatos, Ca, Us

Worked on automated canary deployment and analysis for client deployments in non-randomized deployment settings for streaming apps and games.

Oakland, Ca, Us

While at LaunchDarkly I took two products from 0 to 1: experimentation and a rapid regression detection product in the observability space. I led a team of 30 engineers, data scientists, and product managers building decision science SaaS products for thousands of customers in nearly every industry.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Product Insights & Experimentation (PIE) team• I worked with Parag (CTO) on developing a plan to unify Twitter's experimentation platform and enhance experimentation capabilities at Twitter• I worked with the revenue team to design a new experimentation system for experimentation on Ads• I designed and helped implement various individual projects, e.g., a real-time Kafka Streams processing and real-time querying service for large scale experimentation data, and scalable, rigorous hypothesis testing with non-inferiority tests• I partnered with the Experimentation Data Science (EDS) team and ML teams to propose and evaluate new statistical methods including CUPED, MABs, and sequential testing

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Head of Experimentation• Led a team composed of half engineers and half data scientists• Scalable Bayesian experiment analysis• Open source Bayesian statistical packages for Scala and Spark• Experimentation infrastructure• Experimentation education• Started and actively participated in OSS working group• Open-sourced two statistics packages for Udemy• Spearheaded engineering outreach initiatives including: hosting meetups at Udemy, speaking at industry and academic conferences, and starting and soliciting authors for Udemy's Data and Engineering Blog

Oakland, California, Us

Own the experimentation services group of products including (1) critical, high-availability, fault-tolerant experimentation microservice in Akka, (2) clients in various languages (PHP, Java, etc.), and (3) automated analysis pipeline. Also advocate for and internal education for Bayesian experimentation methodologies, n-armed bandits, and optimization methodologies.• participate in and lead microservice and software design working groups • lead experiment methodology and novelty effect working groups• mentorship and education in experimentation design and analysis• mentorship in software design and development• major contributor in revamping of engineering hiring process• design and own critical, high volume experimentation service(thousands of requests per second, < 3ms response time)• design and own automated experimentation analysis pipeline• design and delivered various significant revenue impacting services (e.g. real-time pre-qualification platform, mobile API)

Oakland, California, Us

Lead a team developing a platform for real-time financial product pre-approvals of third party financial products resulting in one of the largest growing segments of Credit Karma's business for the year.

Phoenix, Az, Us

Lead service design, user experience design, and marketing strategy consulting for firms like Red Bull, Ubisoft, and ASU. Managed engineers, behavioral scientists, designers, and project managers.Contributed to applied behavioral science research.

Managed engineering, UX, and graphic design.

Tempe, Az, Us

Tempe, Az, Us

Master'S Degree, Epistemology, Ethics, & Mind

Bachelor'S Degree, Philosophy