Experience

Color

• United States
• Public Health
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Senior Software Engineer

  • May 2022 - Present

  - Setup several infrastructure components, including CA hierarchies, Celery, connectors, specialize AWS metrics, etc - Setup our first gRPC service and architecture, and set standards for future services - Wrote several documentation, explainer pieces, and generally promoted engineering education and awareness - Was the first line of help for any kind of infra setup or new product exploration - Moved our first services to k8s, including work to Dockerize them - Implemented existing and new architecture with Terraform/IaaS - Designed and implemented a deployment system on top of ArgoCD - Designed and implemented preview environments for PRs Show less



Pinterest

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Software Engineer

  • Mar 2021 - May 2022

• Software Engineer

  • Aug 2016 - Mar 2021

  - Primarily worked on Pinlater, an asynchronous job execution platform that runs 15+ billion jobs a day, and is used all across the company, from front-end teams to database teams to monetization.- Owned our core storage of pin, user, board models (and adjacent data), and the services that interact with them which deliver millions of RPS at high availability.- Led, designed, and created Pinterest's GDPR/CCPA systems for data deletion and data retrieval, with strong focus on data safety, consistency, and user privacy.- Created several devtools and worked on projects outside the scope of my team and organization to improve overall engineering quality and health. Strongly believe in the philosophy "Leave things better than you found them".- Created extensive documentation and learning material on all manner of subjects.- Designed and taught orientation classes for incoming engineers. Personally met and talked to almost every engineer that joined the company in 2019.- Mentored an intern, along with several teammates, and regularly involved myself in other teaching, mentorship, and knowledge sharing opportunities. Regularly reached out to new hires and interns across the company to help them grow and make the most of their time. Show less



San Francisco Superior Court

• United States
• Administration of Justice
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Juror

  • Jul 2021 - Aug 2021



University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Undergraduate TA, Computer Architecture (CS233)

  • Jan 2013 - May 2016

  - Taught lectures in the honors section of the class.- Designed multiple lab assignments which encouraged learning and critical thinking.- Created a double elimination tournament system for an end-of-term competition between student teams, who would create a bot to play a specific game designed by us.- Taught multiple office hours a week and was able to regularly bring students to a deeper level of understanding and have the ideas "click" into place.- Had several conversations with the professor and other TAs that helped guide the education philosophy of this class and others too. Show less

• Undergraduate TA, Data Structures and Algorithms (CS225)

  • Aug 2014 - Dec 2014

  - Taught multiple office hours a week and was able to regularly bring students to a deeper level of understanding and have the ideas "click" into place.- Had several conversations with the professor and other TAs that helped guide the education philosophy of this class and others too.



Pinterest

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 700 & Above Employee

• Cloud Intern

  • May 2015 - Aug 2015

  - Implemented a tool to rebalance large Kafka clusters for even load balancing and fault tolerance using graph theory concepts - Setup a Kafka monitoring tool to send out emails with system performance statistics of various clusters - Helped migrate Kafka clusters from Amazon EBS to VPC to reduce network usage, and helped mitigate many Kafka-related warnings and issues. - Implemented a tool to rebalance large Kafka clusters for even load balancing and fault tolerance using graph theory concepts - Setup a Kafka monitoring tool to send out emails with system performance statistics of various clusters - Helped migrate Kafka clusters from Amazon EBS to VPC to reduce network usage, and helped mitigate many Kafka-related warnings and issues.



Microsoft

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Engineer Intern

  • Jun 2014 - Aug 2014

  - Worked on the Outlook team; implemented CC & BCC front end to back end - Suggested improvements to internal tools and implemented some of them - Worked on the Outlook team; implemented CC & BCC front end to back end - Suggested improvements to internal tools and implemented some of them