Experience

Lightcone Infrastructure

• Community Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Technology Officer

  • Oct 2022 - Present

  CTO, LessWrong. Not a management role. In broad strokes, responsible for: deciding build/buy, vendor & external partner management, architectural questions, and actually shipping things.

• Software Engineer

  • Jul 2022 - Oct 2022

  LessWrong & shared codebase. Backend, frontend, infra, design, analytics, product, community management, etc.



Protocall

• India

• Founder

  • Nov 2019 - Present

  protocall.dev. Making gRPC/proto API testing "just work". Let me know if it doesn't feel like magic for you. protocall.dev. Making gRPC/proto API testing "just work". Let me know if it doesn't feel like magic for you.



Tinder, Inc.

• United States
• Restaurants

• Senior Software Engineer, Backend

  • Oct 2018 - Jun 2022

  Backend tech lead, handling end-to-end architecture, task breakdown, timeline estimation, development, release, and monitoring of, among other projects: Short Video Consent Management Platform, which supports not just Tinder but more than a dozen total Match Group brands through the Tinder Service Platform Device Check 1st class gRPC & protobuf support in Node/Typescript, including build tooling, documentation, sensible default packages, & more. Onboarding Standardization Media Services & Workers 2FA API Layer Also: mentorship, technical leadership, hiring pipeline improvements, continuous advocacy for long-term concerns (tech debt, tooling, testing, documentation, process, etc). Java, NodeJS/Typescript, Go (Golang) DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis (Elasticache), MongoDB Websockets, gRPC, Protobuf, Kafka ...and more, as necessary. Show less



Beautycounter

• Personal Care Product Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• C#/.NET Software Engineer

  • Mar 2018 - Oct 2018

  I write robust, scalable microservices for mission-critical functionality, including payments and mobile infrastructure. The best part is solving novel problems in in new domains - payment processor API breaks for our use case? Figured out why, forked, and fixed. Amazon Pinpoint is so fresh that the documentation is missing links, assuming it exists at all? Service is up and running in a week - tests and all. Oh, tests and infrastructure as code, too. Tech stack: .NET Core (MVC/WebAPI/Entity), NodeJS, SQL Server, Redis, Angular, React AWS: API Gateway, Lambda, Kinesis, Pinpoint, CloudFormation, CodePipeline/Build/Deploy, etc. Git, Mercurial Show less



Children's Institute, Inc. (CII)

• Senior Software Engineer

  • Jul 2016 - Mar 2018

  I led new product and feature development at Children's Institute. My role involved requirements gathering from users, team leads, directors, and C-Levels in order to prioritize, architect, implement, test, and deploy new services and applications. These included new ETL processes which saved hundreds of hours of labor, numerous web applications and services for internal use, and a client-server application that replaced native word-processors for HIIPA compliance. Tech stack: .NET: C#, MVC/WebAPI, WPF (async/await), LINQ/Entity, SQL Server Web: HTML5, CSS, Javascript, jQuery, Bootstrap Other: Python, SQLite, Inno, IIS, TFS Show less



ProSearch Strategies, Inc

• .NET Developer

  • Jun 2015 - Apr 2016

  I coordinated between client-facing teams and the development team to clarify product requirements, and implemented those as custom features for Relativity. These customizations involved working with a large, existing code-base, oftentimes operating on extremely large datasets. I assisted several other developers in solving challenging architectural problems in a timely manner. I also took temporary ownership of several Scrum Master duties for a brief period of time. Tech stack: .NET: C#, SQL Server Web: Javascript, jQuery Other: TFS Show less



Move, Inc

• United States
• Real Estate
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Data Services Engineer

  • Feb 2014 - Jun 2015

  By analyzing Customer Care reports and coordinating multiple teams, I designed and implemented web-based .NET tools and SQL/SSIS services that led to over a 50% reduction of Move's Customer Care queue. Tech stack: .NET: C#, ASP.NET WebForms, WinForms, SQL Server, SSIS Web: HTML, CSS, Javascript Other: TFS, Git By analyzing Customer Care reports and coordinating multiple teams, I designed and implemented web-based .NET tools and SQL/SSIS services that led to over a 50% reduction of Move's Customer Care queue. Tech stack: .NET: C#, ASP.NET WebForms, WinForms, SQL Server, SSIS Web: HTML, CSS, Javascript Other: TFS, Git



Hush Hush

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Developer

  • 2013 - Jan 2014

  I designed, coded, and tested algorithms for the company's data-masking SaaS product. I created a new full-stack .NET architecture for the company's existing website, www.mask-me.net, and implemented those changes. Tech stack: .NET: C#, ASP.NET WebForms, SQL Server Web: HTML, CSS Other: Cassandra, TFS I designed, coded, and tested algorithms for the company's data-masking SaaS product. I created a new full-stack .NET architecture for the company's existing website, www.mask-me.net, and implemented those changes. Tech stack: .NET: C#, ASP.NET WebForms, SQL Server Web: HTML, CSS Other: Cassandra, TFS



Machine Intelligence Research Institute

• United States
• Research Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Intern

  • Oct 2013 - Nov 2013

  I conducted research for an annotated bibliography on logical omniscience and uncertainty. I was also the primary point-of-contact for literature distribution; during my stay I revamped distribution from the ground-up. I conducted research for an annotated bibliography on logical omniscience and uncertainty. I was also the primary point-of-contact for literature distribution; during my stay I revamped distribution from the ground-up.