Experience

JackTrip Labs

• United States
• Musicians
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Principal Software Engineer

  • Jul 2021 - Present

  San Francisco Bay Area



Splunk

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Software Engineer

  • Oct 2015 - Jul 2021

  San Francisco Bay Area ‣ Technical lead within Engineering Excellence organization, formalized new processes and advanced technology stacks with new cloud-native approaches. ‣ Published and maintained open-source Splunk Docker image and Ansible playbooks, reducing customer deployment times from hours to minutes. ‣ Established and productionized an internal self-service Splunk-as-a-Service platform across multiple cloud providers (on-premise/AWS/GCP), operating systems (Windows/Linux), and underlying… Show more ‣ Technical lead within Engineering Excellence organization, formalized new processes and advanced technology stacks with new cloud-native approaches. ‣ Published and maintained open-source Splunk Docker image and Ansible playbooks, reducing customer deployment times from hours to minutes. ‣ Established and productionized an internal self-service Splunk-as-a-Service platform across multiple cloud providers (on-premise/AWS/GCP), operating systems (Windows/Linux), and underlying technologies (containers/virtual machines), resulting in cost-savings as well as a 10x decrease in end-to-end functional + system test duration that enabled CI/CD for other business units. ‣ Administered and led operations over one of the world's largest Docker Swarm environments used across various organizations (engineering, support, sustaining, sales), improving overall system reliability by 10x and increasing performance by 3x which carried over into Docker's own product line. ‣ Responsible as DevOps + QA lead across Splunk Mobile Intelligence and Splunk for Industrial IoT, building elastic infrastructure for automated functional + system tests and engaging with customers to establish cloud-based demos for sales. Show less



Western Digital

• United States
• Computer Hardware Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Mechanical Design Engineer

  • Jul 2014 - Oct 2015

  San Francisco Bay Area ‣ Responsible for design and function of actuator pivots, tolerance rings, seals & filters across all datacenter products. ‣ Rewarded with “WD Innovative Disclosure Award” for original hermetic sealing designs for helium-sealed products. ‣ Identified key factors that impact particle filtration leading to new designs and testing protocols that increased overall drive life and improved product reliability. ‣ Developed scripts and automation in MATLAB that quantified the sources of track… Show more ‣ Responsible for design and function of actuator pivots, tolerance rings, seals & filters across all datacenter products. ‣ Rewarded with “WD Innovative Disclosure Award” for original hermetic sealing designs for helium-sealed products. ‣ Identified key factors that impact particle filtration leading to new designs and testing protocols that increased overall drive life and improved product reliability. ‣ Developed scripts and automation in MATLAB that quantified the sources of track mis-registration (TMR) with varying anti-disk designs ‣ Modeled subassemblies in ANSYS to simulate structural deformation using finite element analysis (FEA) Show less



Berkeley Lab

• United States
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Student Research Assistant

  • Oct 2011 - May 2014

  Berkeley, CA ‣ Developed thermal measurement and analysis data-logger in LabVIEW, processing analog and digital signals from a multiplexer into auto-updating GUI. ‣ Conducted heat transfer/visible transmission experiments, processing the data with MATLAB and LabVIEW. ‣ Designed and machined various fixtures used by the Environmental Energy Technology Division.



Viasat

• United States
• Telecommunications
• 700 & Above Employee

• Mechanical Engineering Intern

  • May 2013 - Aug 2013

  Carlsbad, CA ‣ Developed steady-state and transient finite element thermal model for embedded heaters in bare printed wiring boards with surface-mounted integrated circuits. ‣ Validated model with fabricated circuit boards in a temperature chamber, comparing physical thermal performance against simulated results. ‣ Streamlined embedded heater design process and improved thermal model accuracy for future applications. ‣ Automated data collection by implementing Excel macros.



RoboteX

• Quality Assurance Intern

  • Jun 2012 - Aug 2012

  Palo Alto, CA ‣ Performed quality control testing on components and subassemblies for the 2012 Avatar Micro Robot. ‣ Explored and designed alternative product packaging options resulting in ~80% cost reduction.



University of Pennsylvania

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Assistant

  • Jun 2009 - Aug 2011

  Philadelphia, PA ‣ Performed wet lab experiments, such as polymerase chain reaction and gel electrophoresis. ‣ Conducted analyses of nuclear magnetic resonance data, calculating residual dipolar couplings for protein structure determination.