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New York, Ny, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Bringing ML to Radiology workflows

New York, Ny, Us

› Built Timespast Internal Search portal redesign and new NYT Search UI features on search.nytimes.com› Graphql API integration for Timesmachine and Search UI to hit engagement goals on CTR› B2B business rule integration for Timesmachine project› Modernizing Archive schema to consolidate all archive assets under one standard and data engineering work for Kafka integration› Archive research experiments in newspaper segmentation, OCR, LDA-based topic extraction for archive asset recommendation› Developed various tools for archive data verification, user engagement analysis dashboard, A/B testing, webdriverIO e2e testing, and security testing, CCPA and GDPR compliance with BigQuery, Python and Golang

• Joined NYT TimesMachine project as the first full-time developer• Contribute to turning the TimesMachine prototype into a real product• Improvised on many aspects of product engineering that required creative solutions.• Collaborated with designers to realize a collective product vision from mockup to finish.• Adapt different technology solutions to unique problem domains, ranging from Python, Front end to Node.js.Highlights: • Built the automated NYT TimesMachine Publisher, a distributed Python newspaper map tiler application customized for robust parallel execution at scale on Amazon MapReduce clusters. • Latest Publisher can tile 100 tera-pixel newspaper scans/4 minutes on 460 8-core clusters for 3.6+ million scans. (~ Half a billion image files)• Built both UI and backend for Timesmachine V2.1 - "Plasma", with new design and a load speed boost up to 2x faster.

Boston, Ma, Us

• Joined Fidelity Personalized Portfolio team• Contribute to the development of the mission-critical financial services application. • Continue to learn and explore Test-Driven Development with Continuous Integration.Highlights: • Delivered three financial service web applications using Spring MVC, jQuery, Datatables, RequireJS, Twitter Bootstrap and Jasmine. • Streamlined the workflow of QA Acceptance Testing process by leveraging the power of Cucumber and Yaml scripts. • Wrote a collection of utility batch scripts (both windows batch and unix shell) to help automate some of the redundant developer work such as version verification of deployed artifacts.• Built a real-time collaboration tool to streamline communication and coordination for UAT install with Node.js, Socket.io, Twitter Bootstrap framework and Ruby script.

Boston, Ma, Us

Completed extensive training in Fidelity's Leap program on latest software development practices and technologies: Agile Development Methodology, Object-Oriented Design and Analysis, Oracle DB, Java, XML, SOA Web Service, Dojo, Spring, iBatis, C#, and Silverlight.• Trained to develop a Java web application with Spring MVC Framework, iBatis, and Ajax.• Learned to build a C# front-end application to access the web service • Developed a Java Swing desktop client completely from scratch, including deployment solutions.

Worked and published games with several popular web portals such as Kongregate(subsidiary of Gamestop), Addicting Games (subsidiary of Nicktoons), Hallpass and Spill Games.