Feb 2019 – Sep 2020 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Mobile app infra - I work on mostly C++ based data management/networking libraries that power all our mobile apps. Our networking libraries powered all network traffic on the main Facebook app, Messenger and Instagram.

Sep 2017 – Feb 2019 · 1 yr 5 mos

• Recruiting Tools Engineering:
• I’ve driven big architectural changes to improve the integrity of all our recruiting and candidate data, and work to make some of our core recruiting flows faster and more efficient.
• I routinely mentor junior engineers and do talks for new engineers at the company. I have also done over 300 interviews for Facebook, and continue to be heavily involved in recruiting.

Dec 2014 – Sep 2017 · 2 yrs 9 mos

• Facebook Live:
• Founding engineer for Facebook Live. I was one of the two engineers who built Facebook Live (early 2015).
• Technical lead on Facebook Live – I’ve led a lot of product and feature development for Live, including the Live API, the viewer and broadcaster experience on the Facebook iOS app, interactions + viewer counts and much more.
• I drove and implemented and lot of foundational technical architecture that powers Facebook Live and allows hundreds of millions of people to view videos in real time.
• I started a Facebook Live team in our NYC office in Sept 2015. Grew the team and mentored new engineers who joined us. The team had grown to around 10 engineers and 3 designers by the time I left in mid-2017.
• Multi-Media Posts (2015):
• I built a way for users to post photos and videos together in one post, and to allow users to put videos into any album. Led the project from inception to launch over most of 2015. Coordinated the launch across people in three offices.
• A big chunk of our total video uploads now come as part of Multi-Media posts. Instagram (2017):
• Did a two-month stint on IG Explore. Drove an effort to reduce Explore load times by 25%.

Aug 2013 – Dec 2014 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Facebook Mentions:
• One of the lead engineers on the team that built and launched Facebook Mentions, a stand-alone app for public figures to connect with their audience.
• The app was designed from the ground-up to address the needs of public figures using Facebook. Learnings from the usage of Mentions has heavily influenced Facebook’s product decisions around content creators.
• Facebook Comments:
• Comments storage and server side infrastructure. Worked with another engineer to migrate all comments everywhere on Facebook to a new storage infrastructure, re-wrote all server side logic for serving comments thereby making the infrastructure more robust and future-proof.
• Threaded and ranked comments on our mobile apps: Single-handedly built and launch threaded and ranked comments on iOS and our mobile website, kicking off an effort that ultimately let to a broader roll-out of threaded comments to all users.
• Video Comments: Led a project to allow users to post a video as a comment, from inception to launch.
• Year In Review (2014):
• Drove a bunch of work to build Year In Review 2014. Coordinated the worldwide launch - to users of Facebook, and public figures on Facebook Mentions.

Sep 2011 – Aug 2013 · 1 yr 11 mos

• News Feed:
• Worked on Facebook’s News Feed on the desktop website - built and launched an entire home page re-design with my first team at Facebook (mid 2012).
• News Feed performance and efficiency. Organized an effort to scale down rapidly rising CPU costs for News Feed as our user base grew. Led efforts to improve News Feed performance overall.

Jun 2010 – Sep 2010 · 3 mos

• Created a simulator to help evaluate and optimize an Amazon service before deploying it to customers.
• Implemented the entire project as a web application using the Spring Framework - Wrote the entire backend in Java and created a user-facing dashboard which shows simulation status and exports results for offline analysis.
• Successfully completed and deployed the project - Received a full-time offer from Amazon.

Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 · 1 yr

• Working with Prof. John Ousterhout on ‘Fiz’, a Java-based web-app framework:
• Implemented platform-independent and reusable components for mobile phone web-apps built using Fiz.
• Working on an API for Ajax operations to facilitate the creation of Ajax-centric web applications.

Sep 2009 – Jun 2011 · 1 yr 9 mos

• MS in Computer Science

Jan 2009 – May 2009 · 4 mos

• Publication: Contextual Analysis of User Interests in Social Media Sites – An Exploration with Micro-blogs
• (18th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2009)

May 2008 – Jul 2008 · 2 mos

• Improvement of User Experience and Performance Enhancement for a product:
• Developed a prototype to enable offline usage of a product using Google Gears API
• Incorporated offline caching in the product to reduce latency and enable faster loading
• Enhanced portability by allowing users to save search history and view results offline
• Successfully demonstrated the prototype and all its offline functionalities to the product team
• Prototype accepted to go into production