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Boston, Ma, Us

Seattle, Wa, Us

New York, Ny, Us

On the Video Studio team, I (alongside others):- Worked with various teams (media, video intelligence, SEO) to create a 0-click video generation flow. This was to improve the Compass listings’ search rankings by including a video for every listing (uploaded to YouTube) and to further help other teams adopt the video platform.- Alongside the 0-click work, I created a reusable backfill job to handle older videos that were not auto attached to the older listings.- Investigate and helped solve various memory leak problems in common packages used between teams.- Improve request success rate and lower latencies by adding various valuations, retries and a dedicated “clone” service to better handle video render or video preview requests.- Updated video backend services’ resources (memory, CPU, database storage sizes) to help save over $100k a year.- Participate in various technical specs reviews to provide feedback on design and architecture choices.

New York, Ny, Us

On the Video Studio team, I (alongside team members):- Streamlined the video template lifecycle management by creating a CMS/tool for our internal designers. This had a large impact to our Content teams by allowing them to deliver templates faster with validation. It saved engineering time and resources by allowing the Content team to do this themselves.- Update automatic deal attachment for videos generated and retroactively backfill all existing videos. This helped agents link their videos to their existing deals which helped with their future marketing plans.- Removed the 24 hour lag for showing video metrics (views, clicks, opens) by redesigning metrics collection. This allowed our current users to have a better experience with interacting with videos generated on our platform.- Participated in various technical specs reviews to both receive feedback about my designs and to provide others feedback about their design and architecture choices.

Stamford, Ct, Us

On the Experience Backend team, I:- Maintain marketing feeds API that provide various flights, hotels or cars items for advertisements. Worked to improve performance and fix memory issues- Work with other teams and products to help record and access search data- Add various new APIs for retrieving trips and personalization data (i.e KAYAK@Home)I work with Java, Elastic, GraphQL, JavaScript

Stamford, Ct, Us

On the email and push notification team, I:- Created an email marketing console to scale bulk mailings across different brands and locales- Created a push marketing console to send personalized notifications based on relevantsearch history and click actions- Updated internal and external link encoding and decoding to improve click rates and preventmalicious activity- Implemented email experiments to improve user engagement and retainment by updatingcontent, send frequencies and send logicI work with: Java, Javascript, HTML, CSS, React, SQL, Hive

Mclean, Va, Us

Integrated cameras and sensors with Ageon ISR to control and display metadata in real timethrough a web applicationImproved application performance by updating rendering logic from object detections and dataprocessing logic from video feedsCreated a prototype of an existing internal system for ingesting, displaying and analyzing largescale dataStreamlined installation and build process to improve package management, versioning, testingand user experience - cutting the total process time down by about 50%Directly worked with customers and integration documents for feature requests, feedback andimprovementsI worked with: Javascript, HTML, CSS, C#, Ractive.js, React, AWS, Advanced Installer, Jenkins

Mclean, Va, Us

I worked on core functionality and developing new features for our main product. This involves front end work involving designing or redesigning UI components and back end metadata work. I work with:Ractive.jsReact / ReduxJavascript / HTML / CSSASP.net/C#Powershell / Command PromptBesides this, I spent some time working on establishing a CI/CD pipeline working with Jenkins, Ansible, Advanced Installer and AWS.

Worcester, Massachusetts, Us

I assisted students with integrating biology information and concepts with Python along with code review and hosting review sessions.

Worcester, Massachusetts, Us

I updated and maintained different WPI webpages using OpenText's Web Content Management Systems (CMS).

Worcester, Massachusetts, Us

I assisted students with code review and questions related to simulations of biological systems. I also wrote and updated code tutorials for this modeling and simulation. This class revolved around Starlogo Nova (http://www.slnova.org/) and different agent-based behaviors whether it be molecules, cells, or organisms.

Mclean, Va, Us

Updated sensor and camera simulators to generate metadata for internal testingRedesigned UI components to improve user experience and performance in rendering timesI worked with: Javascript, HTML, CSS, C#

Worcester, Massachusetts, Us

Managed and watched over the lab as students worked in it. Answered questions and assisted with any problems anyone may have had.

Bachelor’S Degree, Computer Science

High School Diploma