Experience

Zip

• United States
• Software Development
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Senior Software Engineering Manager

  • Jan 2023 - Present

  San Francisco Bay Area I’m the engineering manager of the payment product team, modernizing Sass procurement from internal purchase requests to invoicing and payments.



Bolt

• United States
• Software Development
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Senior Engineering Manager

  • Jan 2022 - Jan 2023

  San Francisco Bay Area Managed multiple eng teams that build and maintain a full stack system that powers the bolt one-click checkout product.



Square

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Engineering Manager - Square Capital

  • Jul 2020 - Jan 2022

  Building a brand new Financing product to help Square sellers. Stay tuned!

• Engineering Manager - Consumer Financing Team, Square Capital

  • Jan 2018 - Jun 2020

  San Francisco Bay Area Lead the consumer financing team in Square Capital, managing 2 engineering managers and a total of 15 recursive reports. My teams are responsible for Square Installments (learn more at square.it), which is a financing product that enables sellers to boost high ticket sales via consumer Installments.

• Senior Software Engineer - Consumer Financing Team, Square Capital

  • Oct 2016 - Dec 2017

  San Francisco Bay Area I joined a 4 person team to build new consumer financing products in the capital org. We launched the go-to-market MVP by financing Square Invoices. + Shipped a MVP of invoice installments loan application and origination process: including identity information collection and verification, underwriting policy, invoice payment and reporting integrations. + Worked with other engineers to build and ship the loan servicing system: recurrence payment schedule, payment processing and… Show more I joined a 4 person team to build new consumer financing products in the capital org. We launched the go-to-market MVP by financing Square Invoices. + Shipped a MVP of invoice installments loan application and origination process: including identity information collection and verification, underwriting policy, invoice payment and reporting integrations. + Worked with other engineers to build and ship the loan servicing system: recurrence payment schedule, payment processing and settlement, integration with Square’s accounting service.

• Senior Software Engineer - Intelligent Logistic and Dispatch Team, Caviar

  • Jan 2015 - Oct 2016

  San Francisco Bay Area I joined the caviar team (trycaviar.com) after the food delivering business was acquired by Square. I started and built the intelligent logistic and auto-dispatch system, via which I brought my ML expertise closer to product and business goals. + Random forest models to predict food preparation time and courier commute time. + Built an auto-dispatch system that optimizes for both delivery on time rate and courier efficiency and cost. The system dispatches all caviar orders. + Built… Show more I joined the caviar team (trycaviar.com) after the food delivering business was acquired by Square. I started and built the intelligent logistic and auto-dispatch system, via which I brought my ML expertise closer to product and business goals. + Random forest models to predict food preparation time and courier commute time. + Built an auto-dispatch system that optimizes for both delivery on time rate and courier efficiency and cost. The system dispatches all caviar orders. + Built demand prediction models to match courier supply to buyer demand. + Built a fraud detection rule engine to reduce buyer fraud.

• Machine Learning Scientist - Square Order Team

  • Jun 2014 - Dec 2014

  San Francisco Bay Area I joined a 8 engineering team that built an order ahead and pickup app called Square Order. + Built a collaborative filtering system to power the app’s recommendation system. + Random forest models to estimate buyer pickup ETA. + Integrated search engine to power the item search.

• Machine Learning Scientist - Data Science and Infrastructure Team

  • Nov 2013 - Jun 2014

  San Francisco Bay Area I joined Square as an ML specialist, worked on several data intelligent projects. + Built a collaborative filtering system to support the recommendation system on Square Market (https://mkt.com) + Leveraged natural language processing to power seller item canonicalization.



Google

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Engineer - Google Travel Search Team

  • Oct 2012 - Nov 2013

  San Francisco Bay Area I joined Google travel search team as a full time software engineer. I leveraged my ML background to improve the hotel search ranking system. + The hotel search ranking system incorporates both the result quality, room availability and personalization signals to bring most relevant search results.



Google

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Engineering Intern - Data Warehouse Team

  • May 2010 - Apr 2011

  San Francisco Bay Area Tenzing: large scale database backend engineering and optimization with map-reduce.