Apr 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 11 mos · Remote

• Leading the engineering design and architecture of Speechify's Chrome Extension, Web App, and other web products, ensuring scalable, efficient, and user-centric solutions.
• Developed and deployed machine learning models on the client side using WebGPU, enabling low-latency, fully local models in the browser for features such as parsing and summaries.
• Leveraged innovative web APIs like CSS Paint, Houdini, and Audio Worklets to deliver critical features, including highly efficient text highlighting and seamless audio playback across Speechify’s web products.
• Engineered performant libraries for client-side audio and video processing using WebAssembly, optimizing resource use and enhancing user experiences.
• Created the first version of Speechify Voiceovers (now known as Studio) and scaled it to a $1 million ARR. Developed an intuitive editing UI in React and built a Kubernetes-based backend to manage audio/video processing pipelines, written in Node.js, Postgres, and Rust.
• Developed and deployed machine learning models for tasks like audio classification and script generation, ensuring scalability and reliability in demanding environments.
• Designed and maintained a tailored observability solution using Grafana to meet the unique needs of the Chrome extension, supporting a large and diverse user base with concurrent activity and intermittent interaction patterns.
• Provided mentorship and technical guidance to the engineering team, unblocked developers, and promoted best practices to elevate overall code quality and team productivity.

Apr 2021 – Apr 2023 · 2 yrs · Remote

• Created the Speechify Safari Extension after introduction of extensions on iOS, which was one of the highest user retention products at the time.
• Spearheaded Chrome Extension architecture overhaul to enable more robust playback and seamless integration with the new multiplatform SDKs at the company
• Developed high performance real time audio slow down and speed up library without pitch shifting in wasm to significantly improve quality of playback on Safari
• Helped designed the audio server architecture and api which is responsible for synthesis of audio for all products at Speechify
• Developed WebSDK which powered playback experience across variety of products such as the Speechify Web App and Speechify Embeddable