News Tab Recommendations Team: Onboarded the recommendations API onto a C++ infrastructure in order to unlock scalability & performance. Helped new team members ramp up on the infrastructure. Improved news recommendation quality by personalizing articles shown to users as measured by CTR, retentive behavior, and survey responses. Collaborated with internal and external team members as data scientists to design the approaches.Redesigned the process for setting up ranking configurations to decrease the chance of bugs and speed up development by migrating them to a reusable Python structures from JSON.Instant Articles Team:Improved server-side performance and publisher experience of using the Instant Articles product, as well as CTA and ad efficacy both on the user and publisher sides.

Founding member of and web developer for a non-profit* US high school exchange program; collaborated with team members to design and implement the program’s website.* non-profit status pending

Lead a weekly recitation with a partner, held weekly office hours, and answered students' questions, as well as graded the assignments. Head TA in Fall 2016.

Held 6 weekly office hours to help students with the course material and homework assignments. Graded the students' homework assignments.

Worked on the Feed Experience team as an iOS engineer.- Implemented zooming on photos & videos on iOS.- Improved the experience of loading photos for slow-network users andstarted dogfooding it to the company.

Contributed to the initial launch of the Dashboard iOS App and post-launch improvements. - Improved functional testing coverage of key reporting features. - Extended functionality to filter by time of day in the reporting screens. - Added a custom upgrade prompt to encourage beta customers to upgrade to the App Store version of the app.

Created an iOS application using a gamified process for ranking friends and their content via a swiping mechanism, as well as categorization of friends into friend lists and setting of privacy settings on those friend lists to collect data about user preferences that would allow personalizing one's Facebook Newsfeed.Collaborated with two other Facebook U interns to conceive the idea, plan it out, and create the finished product.

Moved a static website to a Ruby on Rails CMS (RefineryCMS) with a PostgreSQL backend; learned the processes for setting up and managing such a website on a server.Adopted a new design for the website utilizing Twitter Bootstrap.Learned Ember.js and EPF.js. Created PostgreSQL database-driven apps with an Ember.js client side and a Ruby on Rails server side for future internal use.

Tutored a student in mathematics at the precalculus level for classes and for the state examination.

Created a new template for the current NCFMP website to allow for better user experience using HTML and CSS.