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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.

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.

• 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.

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.

• 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.

Notre Dame, IN, US