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Saratoga, Ca, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Los Gatos, Ca, Us

🔬 Research & Innovation* Forward-Thinking: Committed to empowering end-users through sustainability and education. Researched early applications of LLMs for context-aware security guidance and developed novel delivery platforms.* Security Research: Discovered and responsibly disclosed 0-day vulnerabilities in high-impact frameworks such as Electron and Apple's Gatekeeper, contributing to wider community safety.🛠 Technical Leadership* Adaptive Problem-Solver: Evolved the Stethoscope project from a web platform to a comprehensive ecosystem, including native applications, browser extensions, and web platforms, all geared toward a user-centric security approach.* Broad Technical Depth: Adapted technologies across multiple languages and frameworks, including Go and Node.js, and implemented data pipelines, demonstrating a keen ability to switch contexts and learn quickly.* Open-Source Contributor: Created and maintained various open-source projects, including Stethoscope, contributing to Netflix's wider role in the cybersecurity community.* Impact & Breadth: Worked cross-functionally to conduct user research, evaluate commercial offerings, and reassess or halt harmful projects, maximizing both depth and breadth of impact.* Ally & Mentor: Actively mentored colleagues while championing the central role of allyship, diversity, and inclusion in creating user-focused, empathetic, and inclusive work environments and technology.🗣 Public Engagement & Partnerships* Community Builder: Represented Netflix at key cybersecurity events like USENIX Enigma and developed strategic collaborations with Google, Meta, Duo, and Spotify.* Industry Collaborations: Engaged in ongoing partnerships with various industry leaders in fields ranging from endpoint management to device hygiene and user-focused security.

Moffett Field, California, Us

As a Senior HCI Researcher and Software Developer at NASA Ames Research Center, I held a security clearance and played a pivotal role in enhancing mission assurance systems and contributed to both the ISS mission and TLX—a NASA Software Initial Release Award winner and a finalist for NASA Software of the Year. I provided technical direction and full-stack development for a multi-agency initiative to optimize payload delivery to the International Space Station. My leadership in modernizing mission assurance systems significantly reduced average page load times from 30 seconds to 1 second. Additionally, I architected the task participant onboarding experience for NASA TLX, enabling researchers to conduct large-scale tests while ensuring data confidentiality.

Beverly Hills, Ca, Us

Responsible for designing and leading development efforts for scalable web properties to showcase Studio71 talent (a large pool of YouTube stars), provide analytics, revenue tracking and reporting for talent and sales teams. Designed and developed a number of offline applications that aggregate data from various APIs into consumable reports to guide sales and talent acquisition. Day to day, I interacted with the product team to plan new features and address existing bugs, prioritized tasks for the front end development team, prepared and pushed production deployments, and developed proof of concept applications.- Designed and led development efforts building a scalable nodejs backend on express, socketio, Backbone, Browserify, utilizing both grunt and gulp for build process with mocha and selenium tests.- Integrated Twitter/Facebook/Youtube/Vine/Instagram/Salesforce APIs to provide a centralized platform for creators to upload and share content.- Developed responsive web properties in React with a lightweight custom routing/bootstrap framework- Automated the vast majority of a complex talent on-boarding process to expand into previously unprofitable space, including online contract signing, payment setup, tax forms, oauth tokens, automated mailings and more- Continuously improved performance and code base by removing unused code, isolating and optimizing poorly performing code via profiling, implementing numerous caching mechanisms (which also allowed me to provide offline app support)- Developed custom wordpress themes and a simple Wordpress API to more tightly integrate our internal dashboards with our public content authoring tools- Increased sales team efficiency through custom Chrome extensions that provided up to date information about YouTube channels on YouTube's channel and video pages- Expanded front-end development team and provided training and leadership

St Louis, Missouri, Us

My primary responsibilities at Answers.com were managing and supporting team leaders, providing leadership and direction to the engineering team of Answers.com, and working with the executive team to communicate project execution status, plan resource allocation and contribute to our overall strategy. I was deeply involved in our technical execution, including architecture, code review, developer training, and performing development tasks in a broad range of technologies.Under my leadership, the engineering team and I were able to achieve the following milestones:- Directed initiatives that propelled the company to achieve record-breaking profits on the Answers.com desktop experience.- Pioneered the development and subsequent scaling of our mobile platform, positioning it as the industry-leading mobile website according to Quantcast metrics at the time. This transition shifted our mobile revenue from constituting less than 5% to more than 50% of total gross revenue.- Implemented process automation solutions that significantly increased operational efficiency, liberating small internal teams to focus on higher-impact projects.- Established our coding standards and applicant assessment protocols, enhancing code quality and streamlining the recruitment process- Helped build a world-class engineering team through hiring, training, and leadership- Collaborated with local academic institutions to scout and onboard emerging talent.- Conceived and spearheaded an engineering internship program, providing a pathway for nurturing future industry professionals.- Initiated the end-to-end development and launch of the Answers.com video platform, including ad integration and a tailored analytics framework, to capture and interpret user engagement metrics.

St. Louis, Mo, Us

Provided technical consulting, procurement, configuration, training, and support to faculty, students, and research teams. Notable projects include the Goualougo Ape Project https://congo-apes.org/, and the university’s first genomics lab.