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New York, Ny, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Venture Cooperative Fellows at Laconia:• Identify high-potential pre-seed and seed stage startups to introduce to Laconia• Participate in investment processes• Collaborate on market research and due diligence

New York, Us

• Managed a primary team of 5 software engineers and co-managed 2 engineers on a sister team when it lacked an EM. Partnered with Product to design engineering roadmaps for two teams, assigned feature leads, and delivered successful product and technical launches. • Oversaw and developed eight direct reports through creation of individualized career growth plans, achieving promotions for five reports. • Delivered new growth initiatives including launch of a new leasing model, new $0 checkout process for bike seat replacement kit (affecting up to 1M customers), and price increases of product offerings to adjust for inflation. • Led team through top-secret, high-priority product recall project requiring new check-out experience in tight four-week timeline. Oversaw project scope, risk mitigation, and solutions while coordinating with stakeholders, feature lead, Legal team, and C-suite.• Served as Engineering Manager for Leasing project, which offered price-sensitive customers access to Peloton products in a two-phase launch in the US and Canada and directed the creation of a playbook for future international markets (ex. Germany). • Interviewed 100+ candidates for multiple software teams, resulting in successfully hiring two engineers onto my team as direct reports, and the hiring of 15+ software engineers for other teams and one EM for a peer team.

New York, Us

• Led product software team of four engineers (responsibilities included roadmap building, resource management, scrum master, and leadership) while engaging in individual contributor development work. • Developed and maintained Kotlin-based catalog microservice with GraphQL endpoints to support e-commerce purchasing experience. Migrated existing React frontend to use new GraphQL endpoints over legacy REST endpoints for add-to-cart and product/bundle selection workflows. • Enabled doubling of connected fitness units offered by Peloton by launching new Bike+ product for sale and new Tread product’s marketing page; launch required developing software across the stack while maintaining product secrecy and engaging with multiple teams and code touchpoints.• Proposed new architecture to manage product translation copy and measurements across US, CA, UK, and DE sites.• Developed frontend experience for shoppers to determine order-to-delivery (OTD) times.• Architected and implemented new “availability states” architecture to simplify and centralize logic for making items available in different locales and allow consistent experiences, thereby allowing new product launches in new markets in a fraction of the time. • Provided various updates and improvements, including increasing accessibility of www.onepeloton.com/shop/* site by solving issues uncovered by digital accessibility consultants and improving performance of CMS pages from 45 seconds to 2 seconds. • Led Change Management working group to determine best practices for SOX compliance and change management while remaining in compliance with regulations for financial reporting as a public company.

New York, Us

• Architected and implemented features to improve e-commerce outcomes, including implementing Strong Customer Authentication for payments to comply with GDPR regulations in the EU, new Salesforce client features to support commercial clients, renewal flow for yearly subscriptions, merchant processing fee analytics for multiple payment providers (Adyen, Stripe, Klarna, Affirm, etc.), and creating new payment libraries that integrate with local payment providers in new markets.• Optimized latency of add-to-cart endpoints by identifying 3 performance bottlenecks and implementing fixes to them, reducing latency during our highest holiday loads from 12.2 seconds to ~1.2 seconds (~10x speed improvement), greatly improving customer experience during December 2019.• Represented my team for cross-team initiatives, including the SOX Compliance working group, Interview Process Improvement working group, a Scalability initiative, and a Migration to K8s initiative.• Spearheaded the first Asian Pacific American Heritage Month in May 2019, resulting in 7 events with average event attendance of 50-200 attendees.• Co-founded the Asian ERG (ACE) at Peloton.

New York, Us

• Designed, implemented, and owned Python server applications to support social email campaigns, fitness statistics, Year in Review statistics, instructor page redesigns, Facebook follower integrations, image brightening scripts, and several other features.• Proposed, explained, and implemented a system for users to perform actions on our platform without logging in based on keyed-hash message authentication codes (HMACs).• Optimized the performance of highly-used endpoints by identifying bottlenecks, determining whether they were CPU- or I/O-bound, and using database request batching, caching, memoization of expensive computations, and other techniques to improve performance.• Extended, modified, and migrated several parts of our Object Relational Model (models, OneToMany, and ManyToMany relationships) to be stored on PostgreSQL or Redis to optimize performance and memory efficiency.• Revamped backend permissions system so that studio teams in different studios had studio-specific permissions to modify content.• Technologies used include Python, Postgres, Redis, Cassandra, Redshift, Memcache, Liquibase, Amazon S3.• Improved our engineering team processes by innovating new processes (e.g. “grooming pods”) that maximize knowledge sharing and sprint planning accuracy while also reducing total number of meetings, by proposing sprint-in-review retrospectives and email updates to improve transparency of where engineering effort was spent each sprint, and by raising edge cases, user expectations, and concerns proactively for proposed new features and infrastructure changes.

Denver, Colorado, Us

• Implemented several new features, integration tests, and bug fixes for a drill-down data analysis tool used by over 30 client organizations.• Developed and owned a collaborative data analysis and presentation product ecosystem to enable a Fortune 400 analyst organization to derive and share insights from data to drive future business decisions as part of a $XXM contract. • Served as primary owner of a code base for a data-backed presentation layer, saving dozens of analyst hours monthly, regularly delivering new features, integrating new data, and guiding future product direction.Technologies used: - Frontend: Typescript, AngularJS, ReactJS, Redux, RxJS- Backend: Java, Python, GoLang- Infrastructure: Dropwizard- Data: Spark, HDFS, S3, Postgres, Vertica, Bash

Stanford, Ca, Us

• Served as a course assistant for CS110: Principles of Computer Systems (topics included Filesystems, Exceptional Control Flow, Caching, Threading and Concurrency, and Networking; full list of topics here: https://quip.com/H7YLA3vkTP1i).• Graded assignments and exams, providing feedback on proper concurrency structures, networking protocol, and file system I/O.• Held office hours for 6 hours per week to address both conceptual questions and debugging particular assignments.

Stanford, Ca, Us

• Set up, attended, and provided detailed, written feedback for 2-4 company presentations and technical talks weekly• Connected technology students and innovative technology companies through flyering, email blasts, and word-of-mouth marketing as well as collaboration with tech-focused student organizations such as Stanford ACM• Established relationships with technology industry partners from Silicon Valley and around the country to optimize their recruiting efforts on Stanford campus• Learned about latest developmental trends in various startups and companies in the technology industry

Stanford, Ca, Us

• Taught technical classes regarding computing (CS1C, includes high-level overviews of internet, networking and operating systems) and multimedia production (CS2C, includes Photoshop, GarageBand, iMovie).• Developed applied-skills beginner workshops to increase computer literacy, including: web page development, UNIX tricks, graphic design (Adobe Illustrator), multimedia.• Provided technical consultancy for students who use the dormitory computer cluster and for students who own their own computer.• Maintained local area network and assisted with network registration.• Consulted for DormGov (dormitory government) for residential event organization and execution.• Served as the first point of contact for 88 freshman residents and 6 staff members in Burbank dormitory with any issues related to computing (and general Stanford questions).

New York, Ny, Us

• Investigated various distributed job scheduling systems to replace existing home-grown job scheduler.• Gathered requirements from stakeholders across multiple teams.• Demonstrated viability of new system by migrating existing jobs and adapting logic from the existing system to new system.• Programmed JavaScript-based GUIs in Bloomberg’s RAPID framework to expedite creation of programmer request tickets.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Online Monetization Team - Subscriptions• Implemented multiple changes and tracked their impact with A/B tests across various services and teams (Search, Profile, Email Communications, etc.) in an initiative to increase total Subscriptions Team revenue by 10%.• Developed using predominantly Java-based frameworks such as Frontier and Spring and various front-end technologies such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JSP and Dust Templates.

Stanford, Ca, Us

• Teach sections for 12 Stanford students in introductory computer science courses (CS106A, CS106B), illustrating concepts and algorithms in Java.• Conduct regular interactive grading to give students feedback on their programming assignments.• Hold weekly debugging and code review office hours for students at Stanford's central computer cluster (the “LaIR”).• Grade student midterms and finals

South San Francisco, California, Us

• Implemented and maintained new SysWiki and Microsoft Sharepoint data infrastructure to standardize business processes, facilitate communication between departments, and organize business documentation.• Designed two systems training courses to be accessible to less technically-savvy employees and created corresponding training materials (slide deck, facilitator’s guide, student handouts, design documents) for future systems trainers.• Trained Genentech employees from various departments with newly created SysWiki and Sharepoint training courses.

• Conducted 46 hour-long qualitative interviews with Chinese rural students and built spreadsheets with gathered data.• Analyzed trends in student education and technology use and presented findings to Chinese Academy of Sciences to contribute to research on China’s ‘digital divide’ and ultimately advise policies to be implemented in the 13th Five-Year Plan.

Stamford, Ct, Us

• Troubleshot Time Warner Cable’s Netcool alert system during system malfunctions.• Monitored server and network alerts and informed IT teams in the data infrastructure.• Configured over 80 TWC printers and other hardware to be monitored in Netcool system.

Queens, New York, Us

• Performed statistical tests (ANOVA, t-tests, etc.) to analyze trends and find correlations between health issues and demographics such as race, location, and gender within NY/NYIII Surveys.• Entered data from over 500 100-question NY/NYIII Supportive Housing Surveys into spreadsheets

Washington, Dc, Us

• Provided language assistance in Chinese and Spanish for non-English speaking respondents.• Guided respondents step-by-step in filling out their 2010 US Census surveys.

Brooklyn, New York, Us

• Interpreted Spanish and Fuzhounese for hospital staff and patients.• Translated patient consent forms and informational forms that are still in use.• Conducted phone calls to obtain missing patient medical information.

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.) With Distinction, Computer Science

Education record

High School Diploma, Biomedicine