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Austin, Texas, Us

San Mateo, California, Us

- Designed and led technical projects that had product-shaping impact, e.g, adding plug-n-play prometheus data, SLO Monitoring, architectural redesigns- Defined prioritization, methodology, and “definition of done” for a new team building mission-critical integrations with 3rd-parties like AWS, GCP, Azure- Created team’s CI/CD setup and QA tooling to unlock faster development- Contributed to the codebase in Python, Typescript & React, Go, Terraform (internal provider), Github Actions, and a proprietary data modeling language (OPAL)- Built turn-key environments in AWS, GCP, & Azure to test integrations with 3rd-party tools, e.g, Prometheus, OTel, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ChatGPT, Nginx

New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

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New York, Ny, Us

- Became a Datadog expert so as to resolve customer issues and train new customers on how to use the Datadog product- Demoed Datadog product to larger teams of new and prospective users- Handled incoming feature requests and pitched them to Product- Contributed 30+ technical articles to customer-facing knowledge base- Built the first team-wide issue-reproduction environment using Vagrant, Terraform, and Git in order to improve support team scalability; runs both locally and in the cloud.- Wrote a Datadog dogstatsd integration for the Go-Audit daemon

Product Management Role:• Guided the creation of the company’s first three research products through full product lifecycle.• Led weekly meetings to outline team’s product development goals and ensure cooperative efforts.• Developed business plans for each product, targeting 75%+ gross margins. Drafted company budgeting and sales-goals models.• Used JIRA to follow and review progress of off-site software developers.• Identified team tech needs, self-taught Python, VBA (and now SQL) to meet those needs.• Worked with 3rd party data vendors to acquire datasets for new products in early development stages.• Participated in sales calls for first paying clients.• Drafted CEO’s quarterly investor update reports, collecting key information from all teams in the company.• Hired, trained, and managed a team of 6 research associates to produce firm’s first research portfolio. Data Analyst Role:• Used Python and VBA to collect large datasets from public and subscription sources (e.g, Bloomberg, Thomson Reuters, Edgar, and more). These data-collecting tools are fundamental to the company’s research products.• Built financial models to interpret data into analyzable graphs and charts.• Automated large parts of report development so as to increase research team efficiency.• Identified some of the firm's most valuable datasets and how best to communicate them in reports.• Interviewed industry experts for key business insights to inform high-quality research.

New York, Ny, Us

• Collaborated with client HR to coordinate preparation of employee immigration applications.• Managed expectations of hundreds of anxious employees throughout immigration process.• Picked up VBA to regulate document acquisition and automate organizational tasks, saving the team several hours in reporting activities every week.• Prepared high volumes of applications to meet competing and often-changing deadlines. • Acted as the solution go-to man for a paralegal team known for its unique spirit of collaboration.• Trained new assistant paralegals on immigration best practices.• Promoted to a Level Two Assistant Paralegal within 18 months for superb work ethic.

• Conceptualized Lost Piece, a new magazine of extracurricular scholarship at Notre Dame.• Recruited and managed acquisition, editorial, and design teams to produce 7 monthly issues, totaling to over 100,000 words of published writing.• Reinvented magazine editorial process on top of full undergraduate course load. • Demonstrated an entrepreneurial talent and developed a “run-through-the-walls” mentality.• Negotiated exceptional deal with printing press and managed overall budget.• Raised ~$15,000 in department funding for printing and operational costs.• Organized & directed a 2-day undergraduate conference including over 30 presentations.

Notre Dame, In, Us