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Salt Lake City, Ut, Us

Modernized software pipeline for superconducting magnet designDefined plan and migration strategy, created extensive documentation of current functionality, created new implementation using desired technology, designed and implemented test plan, provided a roadmap for potential future enhancementsFocus on building extensible, intelligible, well documented software

Oakland, California, Us

Joined as fourth engineer. Saw the company from pre-seed to $100 million valuation at Series A, alongside 4x growth in team size.Created multiple key backend services, integrations, and core features from scratch.A representative example 0-1 project: wrote a generalized lifecycle-management engine for jobs on our platform. The goal of the project was to enforce a finite set of flows a job could take, and execute arbitrary side-effects as a result of progress through those flows. We tracked the speed at which jobs made it through our system, the number of jobs getting “stuck”, and qualitative measures from stakeholders. The project hit all our targets. I was heavily involved in requirements gathering and goal setting, and I designed, programmed, and deployed the project myself.Brought about many development best-practices and QOL improvements, such as: automated linting and unit testing, Typescript across all repos, improved logging and error observability

Redwood City, Ca, Us

Part of Amobee’s “runtime” team, which was responsible for the company’s RTB platform and it’s most performance-dependent services (7+ million queries-per-second, <100ms latency requirements)Solved hard distributed-systems problems, including: multithreading our object-distribution, identifying runtime bottlenecks, fixing memory leaks

Boston, Ma, Us

Web development on a Ruby on Rails single-page applicationImplemented new features using a wide variety of technologies including Java and RedisWorked as a part of the engineering team on fixing and improving the product

Framingham, Ma, Us

Writing automated scripts to test functionality of database interfaceHelping to improve interface usability

St. Louis, Mo, Us

Leading help sessions for both programming and theory based homeworkInstructing students on time complexity and space efficiency

Lowell, Massachusetts, Us

Developing adhesives and coating techniques for specialized tapesEnsuring quality of tape and compliance with regulations

Coaching internationally competitive climbing teamAlso coaching intro classesHead counsellor at Advanced Rock Climbing Camp

Master Of Science (Ms), Computer Science

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Mathematics And Computer Science

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