Experience

Agave

• United States
• Construction
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Founding Engineer

  • Aug 2023 - 5 months

  San Francisco, California, United States



Embark Trucks (acquired by Applied Intuition)

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Data Infrastructure Engineering Manager

  • Apr 2021 - Aug 2023

  • Grew a team from 1 to 6 engineers focused on building a data platform that enables stakeholders across Embark to gain access and insights into self-driving data to empower the development of the company's self-driving technology • Worked with product team representatives and stakeholders across the engineering organization while balancing tech debt and team member goals to develop a strategy and plan that aligned to overall company OKRs • Led team on pushes for ease of use of the data… Show more • Grew a team from 1 to 6 engineers focused on building a data platform that enables stakeholders across Embark to gain access and insights into self-driving data to empower the development of the company's self-driving technology • Worked with product team representatives and stakeholders across the engineering organization while balancing tech debt and team member goals to develop a strategy and plan that aligned to overall company OKRs • Led team on pushes for ease of use of the data platform: abstractions around our internal databases with APIs, abstractions of our Airflow and Spark processing platform to empower ML and Data Science workflows, and faster data access formats • Led design and co-implemented a novel data offloading system to support the company’s roll out of a commercializable product which enabled the selective offloading of vital data from the truck live during operation (Patents Pending)

• Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure

  • Sep 2018 - Apr 2021

  San Francisco, California, United States • Redesigned and developed the data importing system used to offload terabytes of data into the cloud from trucks each day using Python, MySQL, and Amazon S3 • Redesigned and developed a data recording tool for the truck capable of handling 300 MBps of data using C++ and ROS • Designed and developed a distributed data playback mechanism that enables engineers to test hours of self-driving data within minutes using ROS, Python, Docker, Kubernetes (Amazon EKS), RabbitMQ, and Amazon S3… Show more • Redesigned and developed the data importing system used to offload terabytes of data into the cloud from trucks each day using Python, MySQL, and Amazon S3 • Redesigned and developed a data recording tool for the truck capable of handling 300 MBps of data using C++ and ROS • Designed and developed a distributed data playback mechanism that enables engineers to test hours of self-driving data within minutes using ROS, Python, Docker, Kubernetes (Amazon EKS), RabbitMQ, and Amazon S3. Patent pending • Designed and developed a low-latency video streaming for trucks in low LTE conditions using ROS, C++, GStreamer, Redis, and Python • Assisted in the design and development of low-latency streaming of arbitrary data from autonomous vehicles in low LTE conditions using ROS, Python, and Redis (Patent Pending) • Productionalized a teleoperation system for an autonomous trucks used as the book-end for Embark’s demos during its SPAC process using ROS, C++, Python, and GStreamer • Redesigned and built our data access utilities to improve the speed by 10x using C++ (https://github.com/embarktrucks/embag) • Built out a chunked uploading system to empower offloading data live from trucks to Azure Blob service in a reliable manner while operating in extremely unreliable network conditions using Python and Redis • Built out a data request system that enabled users to select data points to be offloaded from the truck using the aforementioned uploading system. Used React, Python, and MySQL. • Developed a simulation tool to determine if lack of human intervention would have resulted in a collision using C++ and ROS. Findings were published as part of Embark’s public 2018 Disengagement Report (https://medium.com/embark-trucks/embark-releases-our-2018-disengagement-report-2f242992141b)



Intel Corporation

• United States
• Semiconductor Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• FPGA Engineer

  • Sep 2017 - Dec 2017

  Toronto, Ontario, Canada Developed embedded software (C) and machine code used within memory interfaces on FPGAs, as well as Python, Perl, and TCL scripts for testing



Pivot

• United States
• Wellness and Fitness Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Full Stack Engineer

  • Jan 2017 - Apr 2017

  Redwood City, California, United States • Designed and developed a coupon like system for user registration and management using Node.js, Postgres, AWS Cognito, Amazon EC2, Docker, and Auth0 • Designed and Developed a statically hosted website to interact with the backend system using React + Redux, Amazon S3, and Auth0 • Created various ETLs for a data warehouse using Node.js, Postgres, and RabbitMQ



Oracle

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Engineer

  • May 2016 - Aug 2016

  Toronto, Ontario, Canada Developed and maintained data import and export software using C# and SQL



Hubdoc

• Canada
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Engineer

  • Sep 2015 - Dec 2015

  Toronto, Ontario, Canada Developed web scrapers for financial documents using Node.js and PhantomJS



CIBC

• Canada
• Banking
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Engineer

  • Jan 2015 - Apr 2015

  Toronto, Ontario, Canada Developed internal portal for launching various applications using Javascript, JQuery, and C#