Experience

Minds Matter Bay Area (MMBay)

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Operating Officer

  • Jan 2023 - Present

• Chief Sustainability & Scalability Officer (CSSO)

  • Jan 2022 - Jan 2023

  Minds Matter Bay Area connects driven and determined studentsfrom low-income families with the people, preparation, and possibilitiesto succeed in college, create their future, and change the world.As the Chief Sustainability and Scalability Officer, I am responsible for ensuring sustainable operational and infrastructural practices within MMBay, to create a reliable foundation for scaling and maintaining MMBay’s programs and services, so that we can continue to serve more students and families. Show less



Airbnb

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Software Engineer, Payments Engineering Services

  • Jan 2020 - Jan 2022

  I currently work on the Payments Engineering Services team, working to increase Payments Availability and reduce Payments AWS costs. I also worked on parts of our core payments platform.

• Software Engineer, Production Infrastructure

  • Jul 2017 - Jan 2020

  I worked on the Production Platform team (the Infrastructure team that deals with production infrastructure), where I helped build shared services, which are used by other engineers working on Airbnb product.Projects worked on:- Building the Session service at Airbnb (Java, backed by Memcached). Built connection pooling into our Memcached client to help scale & avoid error spikes.- Middleware in our API Gateway. Helped shave ~150ms off all routes through the Gateway.

• Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure

  • Mar 2015 - Jul 2017

  I'm a software engineer on the Data Engineering team at Airbnb, working on visualization and data tools. During this time, I've worked on our experimentation platform, and open sourced: https://github.com/airbnb/knowledge-repoI also spoke about this at Grace Hopper Conference 2016.

• Software Engineering Intern

  • Jun 2014 - Aug 2014

  I was a software engineering intern on the Data Science team at Airbnb. I worked on creating different types of visualizations, including heat maps and monitor dashboards, abstracted plot building into a library, and created an internal webpage that showed core company metrics and updated weekly. I was a software engineering intern on the Data Science team at Airbnb. I worked on creating different types of visualizations, including heat maps and monitor dashboards, abstracted plot building into a library, and created an internal webpage that showed core company metrics and updated weekly.



Carnegie Mellon University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Parallel and Sequential Data Structures and Algorithms (15-210) Teaching Assistant

  • Aug 2013 - May 2014

  I was a TA for this class for two semesters. Responsibilities including modifying existing labs and recitations to match this semester's schedule, holding office hours, teaching recitation, and grading students' homework. I was a TA for this class for two semesters. Responsibilities including modifying existing labs and recitations to match this semester's schedule, holding office hours, teaching recitation, and grading students' homework.



The Blackstone Group

• United States
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Intern in the Innovations and Infrastructure Group

  • Jun 2013 - Aug 2013

  Interned at the Innovations and Infrastructure team. Interned at the Innovations and Infrastructure team.

• Principles of Functional Programming (15-150) Teaching Assistant

  • Jan 2013 - May 2013


CivicScience

• United States
• Market Research
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Intern

  • May 2012 - Aug 2012

  I interned here for about 3 months, working on fixing various front-end bugs that existed in the website. I interned here for about 3 months, working on fixing various front-end bugs that existed in the website.