Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 · 2 yrs · Remote

• I engineered a backend API in Kotlin and frontend in Elixir, streamlining tagger management for customer experience agents and eliminating the need for manual code customization from engineers. I also wrote custom code in Javascript for complex email filters.

Feb 2019 – Apr 2021 · 2 yrs 2 mos

• I worked on Slack's Real Time Messaging team, the team responsible for the distributed Java servers that deliver over 1 billion messages a day to over 20 million connected clients over WebSocket. Some highlights:
• I lead a cross-team project to simplify our backend architecture by removing an unnecessary service in our WebSocket architecture and simplifying the API calls made between services. We moved all clients over to a new WebSocket gateway with a 10% connection time decrease and zero downtime.
• I designed and implemented a project to move our consistent hash ring seed values onto a new Consul key-value store to increase fault tolerance in our backend architecture
• I designed, implemented, and collaborated with the client team to implement (patent pending) temporary channel subscriptions

Jul 2017 – Feb 2019 · 1 yr 7 mos

• I worked on the Video Conferencing Team on the client side (Javascript, Typescript) and on the backend (PHP, Elixir). I designed and implemented support for WebRTC's Unified Plan in Typescript, while also simplifying call connections by 2 round trips of messages. I refactored the video client code to use React and Redux to increase the speed of the Slack client. I also spoke at 4 conferences around the world about Slack's video conferencing infrastructure: in Beijing (RTC 2017), San Francisco (Kranky Geek 2017), London (CommCon 2018), and San Diego (KazooCon 2018).

Jun 2016 – Jul 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo

• I started my career at Slack on the Video Conferencing Team! I built the PHP backend logic to allow Slack calls across Enterprise Workspaces. I implemented simultaneous calls on the Javascript frontend and PHP backend. I also won Slack's hack day, resulting in a patent for searchable calls based on an auto-generated transcript.

Sep 2014 – Apr 2015 · 7 mos · Greater Vancouver Metropolitan Area

• A computer science day camp for grade 6 and 7 girls with the aim of inspiring more women to enter technology and science fields. Sponsored by SAP, Tinkerine and Sophos.

Sep 2012 – Apr 2016 · 3 yrs 7 mos · Greater Vancouver Metropolitan Area

• TA for: Distributed Systems (CPSC 416), Data Structures and Algorithms (CPSC 221), Intro to Systems (CPSC 213), Intro to Programming (CPSC 110).
• My main duties were helping students learn and complete the assigned labs, but I also hosted weekly office hours, answered questions on the online forum, and marked assignments and exams. Less frequent but important tasks I've done include advocate for fairness in marking, support students when they are feeling overwhelmed, host extra office hours based on impending assignment deadlines, and covered shifts for other TAs.

Jun 2011 – Aug 2011 · 2 mos · Terrace, BC, Canada

• A summer job in my hometown before I started university. They sell office supplies and do printing jobs. This job was one of my biggest motivations do well while in university, lest I would have to come back and work here.
• Some of my tasks included counting all of the pens in the store, then being off by one (216 instead of the 217 in inventory? time to count again..), being overly excited about a customer entering (and perhaps subsequently scaring them off with my overwhelming but genuine excitement about interacting with another person), and rearranging displays for no particular reason other than to make the time pass faster.