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Software Engineer @ Facebook From August 2015 to July 2019 (4 years) San Francisco Bay AreaSenior Software Engineer @ Instagram Full-stack engineer on Stories with Tech Lead experience. As the first & lead Stories backend engineer, grew Stories to 500M DAU.• Led end-to-end engineering for high-pri features like our Interactivity tools (such as Join Chat, the Question...

Software Engineer @ Facebook From August 2015 to July 2019 (4 years) San Francisco Bay AreaSenior Software Engineer @ Instagram Full-stack engineer on Stories with Tech Lead experience. As the first & lead Stories backend engineer, grew Stories to 500M DAU.• Led end-to-end engineering for high-pri features like our Interactivity tools (such as Join Chat, the Question sticker, and polls) that led to top-line Stories production & story impressions, as well as nonprofit fundraisers.• Ideated and PM’ed core Stories features based on user needs I proactively identified. One example is @Mention Sharing, a feature that allows you to reshare stories you’re tagged in.• Re-architected Stories & Feed delivery to enable sharing privately with just your Close Friends.• Developed complex backend with ranking, gating, and tooling for Face Filters & stickers. From November 2016 to July 2019 (2 years 9 months) San Francisco Bay AreaSoftware Engineering Intern @ LinkedIn Pulse Team - Backend Engineer• Developed a scalable Scala backend in the Play Framework that generates an RSS feed with the latest news being shared on LinkedIn related to any company. • Designed and implemented a web scraper service that scrapes full text with HTML markup intact (Pulse’s signature reading view), author, and images; replacing LinkedIn’s legacy scraper. (Java) • Improved image quality with image upscaling, downscaling, and cropping methods for Pulse’s images. (Python) From May 2013 to May 2014 (1 year 1 month) San Francisco Bay AreaVP of Training & Development, Project Manager, Founder @ Code the Change We help computer scientists use their skills to make social change an integral part of computer science culture. Code the Change at Berkeley is an organization that empowers computer scientists and engineers to use their technical skills for social good through non-profit projects.• Assisted in development of a full fledged Ruby on Rails app for a nonprofit startup, Meerkat• Improved website accessibility for Abilities United• Led hands-on Version Control workshops, introducing members to Git's features and workflow. From October 2012 to May 2014 (1 year 8 months) San Francisco Bay AreaResidential Computing Consultant @ Residential Computing, UC Berkeley Residential Computing Consultants (RCCs) provide technical support for all students. As an RCC, I troubleshoot a wide variety of computer issues, as well as building upon my customer service experience and consultation. Working as an RCC means serving as the face of ResComp - being a key technical resource for our customers and getting many opportunities to make an impact and contribute to the organization. From January 2012 to May 2014 (2 years 5 months) San Francisco Bay AreaSoftware Engineer @ Instagram As a backend engineer on Instagram Explore, I redesigned Explore to be a personalized, video-first, ranked experience rather than a feed of the most liked photos.• Ideated & built algorithmically curated events video channels to show you the best videos from concerts and sporting events like Drake @ Madison Square.• Engineered personalized topical video channels like “hair tutorials” & editorial video channels that have showcased everything from the Grammys to Halloween.• Launched “Top Live” showcasing the most popular live videos happening at any given moment & personalized Suggested Stories. From August 2015 to November 2016 (1 year 4 months) San Francisco Bay AreaSoftware Development Engineer Intern @ Microsoft - Xbox As a full-stack engineer on Xbox, I designed, developed, and pitched Cortana to be the personal assistant for your Xbox One.• Developed Windows Phone mobile front end, services, and voice handlers with Cortana commands to receive the most popular TV shows on Xbox TV and recommendations based on friends’ watch history & network popularity.• Leveraged multiple search services to allow users to ask Cortana for the next time of any TV show, such as “What time is Game of Thrones on?”• Built cloud push notifications for TV show reminders with support for tuning in from phone. From May 2014 to August 2014 (4 months) Greater Seattle AreaSenior Software Engineer @ Brex Building the financial operating system of the future on the Identity team. Currently reimagining instant onboarding, underwriting card limits, and KYC. From September 2019 to September 2020 (1 year 1 month) San Francisco Bay AreaCo-Founder & CTO @ Marco Experiences Orchestrating one-of-a-kind virtual experiences to keep companies together, employees engaged, and people connected. San Francisco Bay Area