Work Experience

Amazon Web Services

San Francisco, CA

Software Development Engineer
Started on July, 2017
  • Building complex and highly scalable infrastructure

Post Intelligence

San Francisco, CA

Software Engineer
June 2013 to June 2017
  • Worked on the optimization and transition from a heuristics to machine-learning based auction
  • Developed highly scalable data collection infrastructures for ad serving systems
  • Data collection supports a custom built realtime dashboard supporting drill-down and multiple-day lookback for easy live analysis and tracking
  • Designed and implemented a post monitoring system that ingests over a million new posts per day
  • Post monitoring interfaces with Facebook and Twitter API endpoints at large volumes and supports a content suggestion system with high sample rate engagement metrics
  • Built and maintain a publishing system with support for Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and LinkedIn
Software Engineer, Summer Intern
Summer 2012
  • Implemented a search system allowing easy viewing of transaction data through an internal dashboard
  • Developed web interface for monitoring an automated invitation system
  • Provided means to identify performance and manually rank vendors for improved reliability
  • Ported over unique functionality from code written the previous summer

Txteagle

San Francisco, CA

Software Engineer, Summer Intern
Summer 2011
  • Established first internal dashboard for viewing member demographic data
  • Provided visual indicators of trends to help focus resources on weak demographics
  • Enabled quick monitoring of market penetration and diversity
Software Engineer, Summer Intern
Summer 2009 and 2010
  • Validated data for new additions to the internal performance dashboard for the Deep Space Network
  • Leveraged shell scripts to corroborate system logs with scheduled actions

Projects

Pioneers in Engineering Alumni Advisor

Summer 2013 - Today

  • Moved infrastructure to embrace the flexibility of Docker and Dokku
  • Develop a scholarship web application for the scholarship program run by alumni

Tau Beta Pi and Pioneers in Engineering Website Merge

Summer 2012 - Spring 2013

Pioneers in Engineering IT Lead
  • Manage project timeline for porting over old functionality as well as develop new features
  • Merging codebase for the two websites to eliminate duplicate code and improve legacy code

Pioneers in Engineering Tracking System

Fall 2011 - Spring 2013

  • Barcode based system allows easier monitoring of item or personnel status during hosted events
  • Provides formalized inventory system for tools and parts, allowing for more informed purchase decisions
  • Provides a system that allows the organization to more easily grow

Education

University of California, Berkeley

August 2010 - May 2013

B.S. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  • Relevant Coursework: Data and Machine Structures, Computer Security, Database Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Communication Networks, User Interface Design and Development

Skills

  • Programming experience with Python, Java, PHP, Awk, Scheme, and C
  • Web development experience with python (Django and Flask), CouchDB and MySQL
  • Experience with Git, Gerrit and Vim