Jan 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 4 mos

• Applied AI Research
• www.zesty.com - AI powered social food discovery app
• Developer Platform / Kotlin & Golang Platforms
• Drove and executed the technical roadmap for backend development experience at DoorDash
• Developing service, client frameworks, standard libraries and a mature asynchronous platform to improve backend developer velocity, experience, service reliability and reduce cognitive load
• Architected Backend Megarepos at DoorDash (Gradle and Bazel), improving build system & VCS scalability and observability

Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 · 3 yrs

• Developer Platform / Kotlin Platform
• Led a team and drove the technical roadmap for backend development experience at DoorDash
• Developing service, client frameworks and Server-Driven UI standards to improve backend developer velocity, experience & service reliability
• Architected Backend Megarepos at DoorDash, improving build system & version control scalability and observability
• Discovery Platform
• Architected a server-driven view system to massively improve product iteration & release velocity and experience
• Built the next-gen cross-vertical homepage on this SDUI Platform
• Miscellaneous
• Served on the Tech Steering Group, responsible for strategically solving/directing org level engineering problems
• Shipped numerous contributions to internal libraries for container management, CI/CD pipelines, utilities
• Instrumental in numerous fire-fighting efforts across the DoorDash tech ecosystem while on-call
• Active contributor to recruiting efforts across various stages in multiple pipelines

Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 · 3 yrs

• Search & Relevance / Discovery Platform
• Led and mentored a small team to add filters to Homepage Search, improving discoverability
• Implemented next-gen restaurant search, by improving query understanding & predictive models
• Core Platform
• Developed a Kafka-based replacement for a queuing system (RabbitMQ) that reached its limits
• Alleviated Kafka’s head-of-line blocking problem via multiprocessing for greater concurrency
• Invited to speak at the Bay Area Kafka Meetup in Dec ’2020

Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 · 1 yr

• DashPass - DoorDash’s subscription offering
• Led the development of DashPass, which involved over 15 engineers across all disciplines
• Incorporated flexible levers on pricing, location & selection to facilitate easy experimentation
• Built on these foundations, DashPass is now its own Engineering org and a key revenue driver for the company
• Logistics
• Designed, built & operated one of the first microservices at DoorDash
• Led development of cross-platform self-help for Consumers & Dashers, reducing inbound contacts by 4%
• Developed tools & policy for issuing Credits & Refunds, that increased per-delivery profitability by 3.5%