Experience

Roar: Career App for Women

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Founder & CEO

  • Jul 2022 - 1 year 6 months

  San Francisco Bay Area A career gym to help women understand and develop the skills necessary to succeed in the workplace - proactively and earlier in their careers. Try the app today: https://tinyurl.com/roar-android and https://tinyurl.com/roar-ios Learn more at: https://joinroar.co



Founder Institute

• United States
• Professional Training and Coaching
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Member

  • Jun 2022 - Sep 2022

  Seattle, Washington, United States Refined the Roar product and positioning strategy; met many business leaders and learned a lot; made lifelong friendships; experienced a nurturing environment and grew as a startup founder.



Self-employed

• Tinkerer

  • Jun 2021 - Jul 2022

  San Francisco Bay Area Explored different consumer products. - a product to help us show up authentically in our most meaningful relationships: everyone I showed this to liked it and thought their friends need it most. No one was willing to buy it for themselves :( - collecting all mythological stories from around the world in one place, for kids to grow up with a stronger foundation in morals. But the price point for existing story apps was low and felt our revenue potential would ultimately be limited. -… Show more Explored different consumer products. - a product to help us show up authentically in our most meaningful relationships: everyone I showed this to liked it and thought their friends need it most. No one was willing to buy it for themselves :( - collecting all mythological stories from around the world in one place, for kids to grow up with a stronger foundation in morals. But the price point for existing story apps was low and felt our revenue potential would ultimately be limited. - worked as a CTO for a month for an enterprise startup. - coached many engineering managers in interview prep through Exponent. Show less



IESE Business School

• Spain
• Education Administration Programs
• 700 & Above Employee

• MBA Student

  • Sep 2019 - May 2021

  Barcelona Area, Spain MBA with a focus on General Management, IESE, Barcelona. Tried finding a product-market fit for a few ideas during these two years- most of these failed due to a lack of conviction or poor execution: * An investment platform for millennials in Spain * A coaching/feedback tool to help engineering managers succeed in their roles and to empower engineers who fail to get noticed/supported * A virtual experience marketplace, just like Airbnb experiences * Consulted with a deep… Show more MBA with a focus on General Management, IESE, Barcelona. Tried finding a product-market fit for a few ideas during these two years- most of these failed due to a lack of conviction or poor execution: * An investment platform for millennials in Spain * A coaching/feedback tool to help engineering managers succeed in their roles and to empower engineers who fail to get noticed/supported * A virtual experience marketplace, just like Airbnb experiences * Consulted with a deep tech company democratizing access to microbiome analysis, on product and business model validation, for fund raising. Show less



Exponent

• United States
• Professional Training and Coaching
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Growth Product Manager

  • Jun 2020 - Aug 2020

  San Francisco Bay Area Exponent is a platform to enable people land their dream jobs in tech. Product Manager for growth - adoption & retention. * Led the design and launch of a referral program for users, attracting more users to the platform. * Led pricing studies to optimize prices for different membership offerings.



Checkr, Inc.

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Engineering Manager

  • Mar 2018 - Dec 2018

  San Francisco Bay Area Joined when the company was at ~35 engineers. Established the data team, and grew the team to handle multiple functions: data infrastructure, data engineering & ETL, data analysis, and machine learning. Created a resource group for women in engineering and led a team to the Grace Hopper conference (2018). Led multiple evening events in partnership with meetup groups in SF, attracting more engineering & engineering management candidates for Checkr.



Yelp

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 700 & Above Employee

• Engineering Manager

  • May 2016 - Feb 2018

  San Francisco Bay Area Led the ad delivery and targeting teams. Our systems match users to advertisers by innovating on a combination of infrastructure and machine learning problems. Some big wins from past years - * Moved the serving stack from Python to Java and improved performance by 30+% in places, enabling us to better harness our infrastructure and improve user experience * Improved the accuracy of the click prediction model by moving to gradient boosted trees and increased our ability to monetize… Show more Led the ad delivery and targeting teams. Our systems match users to advertisers by innovating on a combination of infrastructure and machine learning problems. Some big wins from past years - * Moved the serving stack from Python to Java and improved performance by 30+% in places, enabling us to better harness our infrastructure and improve user experience * Improved the accuracy of the click prediction model by moving to gradient boosted trees and increased our ability to monetize opportunities by ~10%

• Developer

  • Dec 2013 - Apr 2016

  San Francisco Bay Area Jan 2015 - April 2016: Ads! Worked on the infrastructure for showing ads to users. Improved monitoring on this system and worked on optimizing this stack for more complex click prediction models. I started managing this team when I got an opportunity to try out engineering management. Dec 2013 - Jan 2015: Log Infra group -- Part of the log infra group, building Yelp's log analysis pipeline using technologies like Hadoop, Storm, Kafka and AWS. -- Also contributing to… Show more Jan 2015 - April 2016: Ads! Worked on the infrastructure for showing ads to users. Improved monitoring on this system and worked on optimizing this stack for more complex click prediction models. I started managing this team when I got an opportunity to try out engineering management. Dec 2013 - Jan 2015: Log Infra group -- Part of the log infra group, building Yelp's log analysis pipeline using technologies like Hadoop, Storm, Kafka and AWS. -- Also contributing to Yelp's open source project - MRJob. MRJob helps you run map-reduce jobs in a variety of environments : https://github.com/Yelp/mrjob -- Built the backend for Mycroft, Yelp's automated data loading solution - https://github.com/Yelp/mycroft & http://engineeringblog.yelp.com/2015/04/mycroft-load-data-into-redshift-automatically.html



Amazon

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Developer II

  • Feb 2013 - Dec 2013

  Palo Alto Part of the AWS DynamoDB team @ Palo Alto - http://aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/ Worked on the control plane and Global Secondary Indices.



Amazon Lab126

• United States
• Computers and Electronics Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Developer II

  • Nov 2011 - Feb 2013

  Cupertino Worked on the Android Framework team for the Kindle Fire / Fire HD. Owned the design and development of "Favorites" and also involved in UI and bug fixes.



Amazon

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Developer - I & II

  • May 2008 - Nov 2011

  Chennai, India Built and maintained services on the Kindle Periodicals team. Customer launches: -- https://kindlepublishing.amazon.com (Launched May 2009) -- 3.1 update for Kindle Keyboard (Launched Feb 2011) - improved UI for the periodicals reader -- Kindle Fire (Launched Nov 2011) - improved UI for periodicals reader