Apr 2022 – Jun 2025 · 3 yrs 2 mos · On-site

• Led backend architecture initiatives for Google Classroom serving 150M+ students globally, driving innovation in interactive learning and safety infrastructure.
• Backend Lead for Interactive Questions for YouTube videos in Google Classroom from concept to global launch. Built real-time question insertion, auto-grading infrastructure, and analytics backend, transforming passive video watching into active learning.
• Led cross-functional privacy compliance initiative as EDU Privacy Working Group member, ensuring Interactive Questions for YouTube videos in Classroom met all requirements to become a core Google Workspace service including GDPR, FERPA, COPPA, ISO/IEC 27018:2014, and data management features (Takeout for user data export, deletion policies).
• Architected guardian engagement features by building backend systems enabling millions of parents/guardians to preview assignments and receive real-time progress summaries.

Apr 2019 – Apr 2022 · 3 yrs · On-site

• Backend lead for YouTube in Google Classroom, building the entire infrastructure from zero to production in a record 6 months, launching a new and improved YouTube integration to Classroom users, enabling teachers to seamlessly assign educational videos to students worldwide.
• Built backend infrastructure for K-12 safety controls for YouTube In Classroom, enabling students under 18 to view teacher-assigned YouTube content while ensuring compliant and safe usage with age-based controls and content filtering protecting millions of young learners while maintaining educational value.
• Contributed to AI-powered Practice Sets assignments backend, helping build infrastructure for personalized learning at scale.
• Scaled Socratic by Google to 27 countries through internationalization infrastructure supporting 15+ languages, achieving 36% retention increase in Spanish markets and processing 77M+ student queries globally.
• Integrated Socratic by Google with 2.12B+ Google Workspace users, architecting authentication and data systems that enabled seamless access while maintaining strict privacy and compliance requirements.

Mar 2018 – Apr 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo · On-site

• Built core search infrastructure powering billions of queries annually through Google Lens and Search integration following Socratic acquisition.
• Architected Socratic's search backend serving ~5B queries/year by integrating Google Search, YouTube, and Knowledge Graph into unified system, reducing query latency by 40% while improving answer accuracy.
• Developed ML-powered content recognition system using OCR and natural language processing to classify homework problems across 8 subject areas, laying foundation for Google Lens homework helper used by millions of students.
• Implemented scalable authentication infrastructure supporting Socratic's relaunch on iOS and Android, enabling secure user accounts while maintaining sub-100ms response times for real-time homework assistance.

May 2017 – Mar 2018 · 10 mos · New York, New York, United States · On-site

• Joined Socratic as a backend engineer and quickly ramped up on Android to co-lead the launch—alongside one other engineer—of its Android app, which was later named Google Play’s Best App of 2017.
• Designed and built core features of the Android app—including the chat interface, invitations pane, first-time user experience flow, in-app messaging, and push notification systems—within three months of learning Android development.
• Developed backend APIs in Go (Golang) to support product features across both iOS and Android platforms.
• Created an Android app backed by a Golang service to showcase user profiles and Socratic search history during an internal company hackathon.
• Contributed across the full stack, collaborating closely with design and product to deliver seamless, high-impact features under tight timelines.

Feb 2016 – May 2017 · 1 yr 3 mos · New York, New York, United States · On-site

• Software Engineer on Bitly's core backend team, contributing to enterprise product development, large-scale data migration, and public API re-architecture using Go and Python.
• Part of a small team that designed and built the Go backend for One View, Bitly’s latest enterprise product giving marketers cross-channel campaign visibility. Worked closely with frontend engineers to deliver a seamless user experience.
• Built a CSV-based bulk import feature using Go, enabling users to extract links, shorten them concurrently, and assign them to campaigns and channels at scale.
• Helped design and implement Bitly’s new user management platform—a robust, fully tested Go-based REST API. Led efforts on user data migration and sync strategy, ensuring millions of user records were moved with zero downtime or data loss.
• Created Go and Python client libraries for the new user management API to streamline integration for internal and external developers.
• Contributed to the complete re-architecture of Bitly’s public API, now rebuilt as a modern, test-driven Go service.
• Reconfigured backend services to support massive data migration during Bitly’s data center move, helping ensure stability and reliability throughout the transition.

Aug 2014 – Jan 2016 · 1 yr 5 mos · New York, New York, United States · On-site

• Played a key role in re-architecting Timehop’s Rails monolith into scalable Go microservices, helping the platform scale to 10M+ users as part of a 4-person engineering team.
• Designed and implemented scalable backend systems using Go, Redis, DynamoDB, Aurora, and EC2, supporting rapid user growth to 10M+.
• Built a high-throughput Go service to concurrently ingest and process Facebook data at scale for millions of users.
• Developed a Golang service to efficiently import and process users' complete Twitter archive data, enabling millions of users to access and view their entire historical Twitter data through Timehop.
• Investigated limitations of the Facebook Graph API and collaborated with Facebook engineers to unlock a previously restricted data endpoint, significantly increasing Timehop’s access to millions of additional pieces of historical user content.
• Maintained and improved backend APIs powering core features of Timehop’s iOS and Android apps, enhancing performance and user experience.

Mar 2012 – Apr 2014 · 2 yrs 1 mo · New York, New York, United States · On-site

• Key contributor to Extra’s New York team during its historic 2014 win—the first-ever recipients of the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Entertainment News Program.
• Conducted on-site interviews with A-list celebrities including Liza Minnelli, Heidi Klum, Brooke Shields, Joan Rivers, Glenn Close, Cuba Gooding Jr., Kenneth Cole, Harvey Fierstein, and Clive Davis.
• Produced and organized shoots for high-profile events such as Fashion Week, red carpet premieres, press junkets, set visits, and breaking news coverage including Hurricane Sandy and the Boston Marathon Bombings.
• Captured and delivered broadcast-ready footage featured in the show’s lead segment (“A” block) and on the official Extra website.

Mar 2011 – Feb 2012 · 11 mos · New York, New York, United States · On-site

Jan 2009 – Jan 2012 · 3 yrs · New York, New York, United States · On-site

Jan 2009 – Jan 2012 · 3 yrs · New York, New York, United States · On-site

Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 · 1 yr · New York, New York, United States · On-site