Took my time exploring my options: 100s of Founder positions with VC funding (Y Combinator, a16z, shv, Google X, Basis Set, Fractal Software, and more), and written E7 offers at top tech companies.Personal Projects in AGI, Charity, B2B SAAS, Crypto and NFTs, B2C, Generative AI, etc.

Led XFN Projects with VP and Director Support involving 50 people indirectlyReported to Director Yanai GolanyFull Stack ML Platforms Web Applications and AI Infrastructure Inference PlatformEstimated Project Impact $10B in market cap2021-2022 Inference Platform AI InfrastructureInfra for 80% of all models at FB including NewsFeed and IG Stories. Python, Hack, C++.Innovative Efficiency Solutions to save cost on operating millions of servers.Model Publish, OnCall, ML DevOps, Client Library and APIs, Reliability, Observability, Efficiency, Testing2019-2021 Full Stack ML Platforms Web Applications - Innovative ML driven Infra Planning Solution to save Billions on Datacenter Costs.- (0 to 1) Led delivery of a Configurable Full-Stack Web Tool with Data Pipelines to enable Automated ML Insights through a Unified Data Model. Owned the 3-5 Year Architecture and Roadmap. Collaborated with 50 people including Managers, Senior Managers, Directors, and VPs in SWE, DS, DE, BS- Cut engineering roadmap by 10x (70 Month to 7 Month Roadmap using modular shared components). Ordered features to optimize code reuse and balance long term feature development with delivering consistent business impact.- Coached and Mentored a Junior Engineer into a Senior Engineer, Managed an Intern who accepted the return offer- Conducted Coding and Systems Design Interviews- Tech Leader (Led Modular Shared Components Architecture across 3 teams of engineers)- PM (Defined Business Requirements and Product Features)- Interviews, Hiring, Resolved conflicts between engineers

Led Microservices project spanning ~30 engineers and 15 XFN teams to migrate PHP Monolith to TypeScript / Apache Thrift. Managed technical design, roadmap, prioritization and execution.Reported to Director of Product Jonathan Chao and Director of Engineering Simon Levy and Yassine HaddiouiImproved team productivity 9x (3x faster code release , 3x faster development through clean refactoring).10X Personal Loans Revenue in 2 yearsEstimated Project Impact up to $0.5B in market cap to the company.- Launched 0-1 Products with PM, A/B Experimentation, Click Tracking, and Business Analysts- Filled in for Team Scrum Master until headcount acquired- Resolved conflicts between XFN teams- Managed contractor in African Timezone

Reported to CTO Ram Gudavalli as the first external hire. Built 2 Single Page Web Applications 0-1 with cutting edge FE technologies, refactoring the codebase monthly.Product 1: A Social Networking Website with a News Feed, Profiles, Settings, Notifications, Banners, Modals, Editors (prose-mirror), Animated Transitions, AutoComplete with Algolia, Media Gallery, Mixpanel AnalyticsProduct 2: SAAS CRM for Staffing AgenciesSMS through Twilio, USA Standards Compliant for unsubscribingEmails through Sendgrid with Templated formats and custom brandingCSV UploaderEmail Alerts Feature using AWS LambdaFrontend: ReactJS (Flux, Redux, custom architecture), Babel 6, Browserify, ES6 Harmony, Gulp, SASS, Express, HTML, Lodash, Backbone Router, ESLint, Git, React RouterBackend: AWS EC2, ELB, NGINX, Docker, Ubuntu, CentOS, Bash, CircleCI, Python, Flask, JinJa2Testing: CircleCI, Selenium, Mocha, Chai, SuperTest, Ngrok, Postman, React Stories, Pep8, eslint, FlowTyping

Lead the tech company from idea to closing sales and VC funding. Team Player: Clear communication and buy-in from management team, co-founders, and investorsBackend Engineering: Built http and https servers, ajax servers, and real time events server with node and socket.io and npm modules: expressjs, async, mysql, nodemailer, connect. Domain registration and HTTPS Certification with GoDaddy, DNS with AWS Route 53Designed EER models and db APIs, implemented with AWS RDS mysql, node, and mysql workbenchSecured the site: coding best practices, user management (login/logout) with bcrypt-node for key stretching, qualys scan and solutionsBuilt file upload with busboy, file download with expressConfigured Amazon Web Services (AWS) for performance: EC2 Linux, RDS mysql, Route 53, SNS, and SES. ~9.86 million page views per dollar of server time, 1000ms page load at 150 clients/secondSet up google business emails and sent emails through AWS SES and nodemailer and email-templates node modulesUsed the node forever module for server uptimeTest Engineering: Wrote integration and end to end tests with chai, istanbul, mocha, supertest, selenium. Cross Browser testing with BrowserStackWrote load tests with shell scripts, loader.io, AWS CloudwatchBuilt internal logging tool in node with verrorFrontend Engineering: Built webpages with swig, jquery, html, css, js, colorbox, qtips.managed all code with git best practices: multiple branches for production, master, development of features. Rewrite history with rebase and create clean pulls with cherry-pickManagement and Legal: Defined the MVP. Negotiated contracts with individual contractors for Designers and Front-End Engineers, managed frontend design and implementation.Reviewed legal documents for incorporation and shareholder agreement.Product Management: Cut away features to find a Minimum Viable Product, delivered planned product with high qualityBusiness Analyst and Sales: Market Research, Cold Calls

Life Education Curriculum (EQ and Life Skills) for Mental Health and Economic Mobility.Open to help to market, publish, or distribute the resources.

Distributed Data Grid High Performance ComputingReported directly to Robert Lee Consulting Architect Manager of Oracle Coherence, a start-up acquired by Oracle who retained the founding engineering teamDesigned internal API using JMX to expose metric data for integration with multiple Oracle Products (DMS, EM, WebLogic).Coded features and fixed bugs in a multi-threaded, multi-client and multi-server environment with speed and resource optimized Java. Worked with message/event processing, entry processors, filters, networking and distributed cache configurations.

Blessed with an inspiring 15 minute 1:1 with CTO Ken Duda and a Corporate Strategy Presentation by Andy Bechtolsheim that inspired me. Engineered features with ant/perforce, emacs, bash, C++, Python, C, and TACC (in house language for efficient development of distributed systems)

Recognized as a top 5 intern out of thousands that yearEarned a full time return offer in Seattle, turned it down to stay in SF Bay Area. Reported to David Flink, a top 20 manager at MSFT, and met with Qi Lu, President of MSFTImproved index quality by Reimagining the backend HTML Parser and Web Crawler for Bing to run JavaScript prior to visual parsing. Delivered first stage of project.Delivered a SWOT analysis of the process and infrastructure for crawling and processing documents.Delivered a metric for evaluation that highlighted important issues. Managed the delivery of measurable improvements to the HTML Parser with input from and coordination with the engineering team. Negotiated and managed dependencies across multiple teams.Ran experiments to provide data to support a new project visible at President Qi Lu's level. Wrote a detailed spec documenting all of my work. Presented my work to upper management and the engineering team.

Statistically speaking, less than 100 people can juggle 11 balls in the world.

Under Dr. Yanshun Liu and Dr. Douglas (C) Rees at the Broad for the Biological Sciences I experimented with using urea wash to prepare a surface membrane ion channel protein for crystallization

* Jogged a 54s 400m without a sweat; 51s is extrapolated theory

Everybody Loves Raymond, S Club 7, The West Wing, I’ll Remember April, Jingle All the Way