• Supported an elite team building matcha.xyz, one of the first decentralized exchanges. • Helped drive 10x growth in daily active traders in
Engineering
Facebook
May 2018 - May 2021(3 years 1 month)
• Part of Web Speed - helped teams across Facebook build fast & reliable systems. • Bootstrapped a side project into a team of 5 building a product adopted by Ads Manager, Diffs (code review), and 50+ other teams. Reduced downtime for customers by 40%.
Engineering
Google
Aug 2016 - Dec 2016(5 months)
• Built YouTube TV's desktop video player. • Left to wander the metaverse.
Engineering Lead
Heap by Contentsquare
Jun 2014 - Jul 2016(2 years 2 months)
Heap is a unicorn analytics startup (YC W13). • Led frontend engineering - dashboard & core product. • Ran engineering onsites and scaled early team as we grew from 5 people. • Wrote content for branding - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10420241
Software Engineer
Haugen Software
Feb 2014 - May 2014(4 months)
• Hire #1, wore a lot of hats.
Software Engineer
Hulu
May 2012 - Jan 2014(1 year 9 months)
• Led ads team in designing and building out several distributed, fault-tolerant systems for the core ingest & publish pipeline. Improved time-to-failure from days to weeks. • Founded team focus on observability - set up system metrics, aggregated logging, automated machine configuration, deployment, and build tooling.
CS 242 Teaching Assistant
University of Illinois UrbanaChampaign
Jan 2012 - May 2012(5 months)
• Helped teach a class on practical code design, style, and quality.