Jul 2023 – Oct 2024 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Org Leadership (MOM): Led a 20-person organization comprising 3 squads and 2 Engineering Managers, supporting 2000+ internal engineers.
• Cost Optimization (FinOps): Spearheaded "Infra Spend Governance," implementing chargeback models and usage tracking that reduced cloud infrastructure costs by 15% (tens of millions in annual savings).
• Strategy: Partnered with Finance and Executives to align technical roadmaps with margin expansion objectives, transforming infrastructure from a cost center to a value driver.
• Execution: Owned the vision and roadmap for the Observability and Data Science platform, ensuring fast execution and delivery.

Jul 2018 – Jul 2023 · 5 yrs

• Team Growth: Scaled the team from individual contributors to a mature unit, personally hiring and mentoring 10+ senior engineers and future leaders.
• Scale: Delivered Pinterest’s web-scale observability platform (metrics, logs, traces) used daily by Pinterest Engineering to maintain reliability and debug systems.
• Architecture: Architected a hybrid Observability solution integrating Open Source tools like Zipkin, StatsD, OpenTelemetry, Elasticsearch.
• Developer Experience: Achieved 80+ NPS from internal engineering customers by delivering automated canary analysis and root-cause analysis tools that drastically reduced MTTR.

Oct 2016 – Jul 2018 · 1 yr 9 mos

• Architected Pintrace, Pinterest's distributed tracing system, enabling end-to-end visibility from mobile apps to backend services.
• Enabled major improvements in debugging efficiency, performance tuning, and incident resolution across the stack.

Dec 2013 – Feb 2015 · 1 yr 2 mos · Los Gatos, CA

• Built foundational cloud platform services such as service discovery, IPC, configuration management, and application lifecycle tooling.
• Partnered with teams across Netflix to shape service architecture and drive adoption of best practices in microservices.

Apr 2010 – Nov 2013 · 3 yrs 7 mos · United States

• Developed distributed load balancer handling 95% of Bing’s global traffic, ensuring high availability and low latency.
• Built datacenter management systems supporting efficient deployment and operational workflows.
• Earlier work on Bing Social integrating content from Facebook, Twitter, Quora, and Foursquare.

Jun 2007 – Apr 2010 · 2 yrs 10 mos · San Diego, CA

• Developed multimedia drivers for Qualcomm chipsets (Android & Windows Mobile).
• Built hardware/firmware simulators accelerating off-target development and testing.
• Drove cross-team coordination across OEMs, firmware, QA, and offshore partners.

Jan 2006 – Jun 2007 · 1 yr 5 mos · Mountain View, CA

• Developed features and infrastructure components for AOL’s search advertising platform.