May 2021 – Sep 2024 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Remote (San Francisco Bay Area)

• Inspired kids to love learning through virtual classes for every passion
• Directed strategy through the post-COVID reset, returning the business to year-over-year growth across a marketplace offering 140K+ live classes to 1M+ learners worldwide.
• Partnered with the executive team and board on marketplace economics, operational risk, and long-term product direction.
• Delivered ML-powered ranking using predictive LTV, academic-quality signals, and trust & safety features to improve learner outcomes and marketplace health.
• Scaled engineering on a JS/TS, GraphQL, React, Kafka, and Elasticsearch stack with clear roadmaps and reliable execution.
• Launched AI tools that helped teachers manage classrooms and communicate with families more effectively.

Sep 2018 – May 2021 · 2 yrs 8 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Engineering teams delivered cloud-hosted modeling tools powered by novel, innovative research
• Developed customer relationships, product roadmap, delivery goals, and hiring pipeline.
• Acquired by Intel to scale AI productivity and performance.

Jan 2012 – Jan 2015 · 3 yrs · School of Information

• Taught "Web Architecture" and "Data Mining and Analytics" classes
• Selected by students for a Distinguished Teacher award
• Developed lesson plans, gave lectures, assigned homework, wrote project frameworks, recruited speakers from industry

Sep 2010 – Sep 2018 · 8 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

• Started pre-IPO as a Data Engineer, grew to managing ~170 engineers in 3 departments by
• Hiring: campus recruiting and industry speaking events; developing bootcamp relationships
• Leadership: mentoring & promoting dozens of engineers; introduction of ML and SOA
• Delivery: industry-best detection of fake reviews/users; features to drive Yelp's fastest growing category (Home & Local Services @ $45M+ ARR)

Jun 2007 – Oct 2010 · 3 yrs 4 mos

• Hands on management of everything from physical server installation to data infrastructure
• Built and optimized search experience with Solr and machine-learned ranking
• Built data storage and analysis with syslog and Hadoop
• Automated server infrastructure with PXE and puppet
• Built and maintained replicated MySQL DB system
• 99.9% uptime including scheduled maintenance for 50,000+ wiki groups, with 10+ million pages and 3+ million users per month

Jun 2004 – Jun 2007 · 3 yrs

• Built out a distributed and scalable search indexing system (>100M documents) to power search on Amazon.com
• Supported tens of new store product launches by Amazon.com and Amazon’s international and partner websites (eg. Target, joyo, endless)
• Reduced demanding 24x7 oncall load by adding monitoring, automated recovery and scaling

May 2002 – May 2004 · 2 yrs

• develop web-based tools and applications for administering an In-Room Connection (IRC) program that serves over 7,000 residential students and 50 staff members who provide residential technical support
• conduct system analysis and development, with limited support and direction from professional staff
• select, train, and evaluate the Programmer team