Experience

PicnicHealth

• United States
• Software Development
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Software Engineer

  • Jun 2020 - Present

  San Francisco, California, United States As a Software Engineer at PicnicHealth, I make sure data gets to our research partners! Technical Highlights - Developed and optimized data pipelines for customer-facing data deliveries - Re-architected and optimized the POC for SQL/Python ETL pipeline, leading to performance improvements of up to ~30x - Automated data imports into BigQuery, reducing friction on internal data deliveries Software Development Practices - Streamlined data delivery pipeline automation and… Show more As a Software Engineer at PicnicHealth, I make sure data gets to our research partners! Technical Highlights - Developed and optimized data pipelines for customer-facing data deliveries - Re-architected and optimized the POC for SQL/Python ETL pipeline, leading to performance improvements of up to ~30x - Automated data imports into BigQuery, reducing friction on internal data deliveries Software Development Practices - Streamlined data delivery pipeline automation and validation, trimming manual engineer time by ~50% per delivery - Created and improved documentation around ETL processes - Created technical design docs for new project and initiatives - Planned out and delegated work around data team milestones Communication and Leadership - Regularly coordinated with product, research, and sales to ensure the best possible customer experience around data deliveries - Onboarded new engineers, ramping them with new documentation and hands-on pairing sessions - Identified learning opportunities for other engineers and planned/delegated work accordingly Show less



Civis Analytics

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Engineer

  • Jan 2019 - Jun 2020

  Greater Chicago Area At Civis, I was a full stack engineer on an identity resolution product. Technical Highlights - Improved and extended an ETL and entity resolution pipeline - Developed a Flask/React app with a polished user interface for person-level data insights - Refactored a core ML algorithm to run on Spark improving performance by >10x - Redesigned a large portion of a Kubernetes state management tool from Python to Go, producing a throughput increase of up to >100x and increasing… Show more At Civis, I was a full stack engineer on an identity resolution product. Technical Highlights - Improved and extended an ETL and entity resolution pipeline - Developed a Flask/React app with a polished user interface for person-level data insights - Refactored a core ML algorithm to run on Spark improving performance by >10x - Redesigned a large portion of a Kubernetes state management tool from Python to Go, producing a throughput increase of up to >100x and increasing platform stability Software Development Practices - Improved SRE documentation to reduce friction during on-call rotations - Led technical design and drove requirements for key features of the algorithm behind an identity resolution pipeline Communication and Leadership - Designed, project managed, and launched multiple major feature releases on a team of 8 interdisciplinary ICs - Coordinated with design and product to deliver the best user-facing product, and coordinated with SRE and client success to support our customers' needs in real-time - Mentored and advised an intern for a summer project, on infrastructure for Spark on Kubernetes Show less



Trustwave

• United States
• Computer and Network Security
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Engineer

  • Jul 2017 - Dec 2018

  Greater Chicago Area At Trustwave, I was a full-stack engineer on compliance management software. Technical Highlights - Wrote back-end microservices in Java (with Spring) and built UIs in HTML and Dart - Swiftly implemented high-priority security fixes ahead of a software beta release - Profiled and optimized key areas of a Java backend, increasing performance up to >10x in some areas - Designed and built a Kafka data pipeline for a growing business intelligence… Show more At Trustwave, I was a full-stack engineer on compliance management software. Technical Highlights - Wrote back-end microservices in Java (with Spring) and built UIs in HTML and Dart - Swiftly implemented high-priority security fixes ahead of a software beta release - Profiled and optimized key areas of a Java backend, increasing performance up to >10x in some areas - Designed and built a Kafka data pipeline for a growing business intelligence initiative Communication - Worked closely with UX to provide the best user experience possible for our users - Kept in constant communication with QA to quickly identify and squash bugs Show less



University of Chicago Institute for Molecular Engineering

• Research Assistant

  • Jun 2015 - Dec 2016

  Assist on a project researching liquid crystal orientation. I routinely performed optical microscopy, UV/VIS spectroscopy, and ellipsometry and analyzed the resultant data via Python and Excel.



IBM

• Research Intern

  • Jun 2016 - Aug 2016

  San Jose Engaged in experimental design and data analytics for a multi-gas sensor based project. Used machine learning techniques to better model sensor data, and did analysis through Python and Igor.