Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 · 2 yrs

Jan 2017 – Jan 2023 · 6 yrs

• Led the architecture and development of a data store that supports tens of petabytes of data, central to Netflix’s ML pipelines, including all recommendation systems. Ensured the platform’s scalability and long-term viability by adopting best practices in data engineering and infrastructure design.
• Drove strategic initiatives to optimize the platform, focusing on logging, ETL, query performance, observability, and debuggability. These efforts reduced operational overhead and enhanced the platform's reliability.
• Provided leadership in requirement gathering, design, implementation, and maintenance, ensuring that the platform met both immediate business needs and future scalability requirements.
• Mentored and led a team of engineers, fostering a collaborative environment where innovative solutions were encouraged, and technical debt was minimized. Guided the team through complex challenges, balancing the need for quick resolutions with long-term architectural integrity.
• Collaborated closely with cross-functional teams, including ML Engineering and Data Science, to ensure that the platform’s design aligned with the company’s strategic goals and could support future use cases without requiring major overhauls.

Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 · 2 yrs

• Led the development and implementation of data pipelines for the lane guidance feature in Apple Maps, ensuring the system was built to scale and support future enhancements without significant rework.
• Initiated and championed the creation of standard libraries used across multiple teams, promoting consistency, reducing redundancy, and ensuring long-term maintainability of the platform.
• Collaborated closely with cross-functional teams, including data engineers, product managers, and other stakeholders, to ensure alignment on technical strategies and to deliver a product that met both current and future needs.

Jan 2012 – Jan 2015 · 3 yrs · Redwood City, CA

• Led the design and development of app platform
• → creation of apps with versioning capabilities
• → migrating database interactions from anorm to slick
• → moving app related code to its own assembly
• → performance improvements via design changes
• Mentored new joinees and an intern for
• → programming skills and learning scala
• → company specific components
• Removed performance bottlenecks to send new user signup emails 100x faster
• Design, development and integration of
• → Self service account upgrading via credit card
• → Load based customer partitioning
• → SAML
• → Pagerduty google groups sync

Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 · 1 yr · Greater Seattle Area

• Development of
• → Recovery volumes
• → Hot restart
• → Memory leak detection process using guard pages
• → Log scanner to scan more than 15 percent servers everyday and report findings
• → Application for testing server process on desktop
• Took initiative to set up more than one petabyte testing environment. Lead the game-day test on this environment to uncover race conditions and load based bugs
• Eased testing by allowing multiple copies of server to run in the same process
• Deployed major release across thousands of servers

Jan 2009 – Jan 2011 · 2 yrs · State College-DuBois Area

• Simulated components in light armored vehicles
• Through simulations proposed solutions to increase the effectiveness of missions undertaken by US marines
• Developed tools to help translate qualitative data to quantitative data for war scenario
• Added features and maintained tool used for comparing qualitative data models

Jan 2007 – Jan 2009 · 2 yrs

• Independently handled bootrom related activities (from customer interaction, development, validation to on chip verification)
• Group expert for flash memories
• Developed device drivers for NAND, RTC, I2S and GPIO
• Developed applications for Bluetooth and Fax
• Benchmarked spear chip