Jan 2023 – Mar 2025 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Shanghai

• Founded a startup that seeks to drive AI + ML innovation for social impact. Returned to my roots as a full-stack engineer, to maintain my technical edge in areas where I wanted deeper expertise.

Nov 2021 – Nov 2022 · 1 yr · Shanghai, China

• Blitz.gg is an AI-powered virtual coach that helps players master difficult games like LoL and VALORANT. After reaching #1 in nearly every region, the company wanted to aggressively grow market share in China. I was hired to spearhead their China market entry.

May 2018 – Nov 2021 · 3 yrs 6 mos · Shanghai City, China

• Riot is the studio responsible for genre-defining games like LoL and VALORANT. The company wanted to dramatically elevate the player experience for our millions of fans across China, the largest global region by player-count. I was hired to build and lead the new Technology department in China, and deliver “Player First” solutions for Esports, Merchandising, Production and Publishing.

Aug 2016 – May 2018 · 1 yr 9 mos · Shanghai City, China

• When I joined GE, it had just launched a company-wide Digital Transformation strategy. I was inspired by their vision to transform traditional industry verticals like healthcare, manufacturing, and supply chain, with IOT, cloud, and data analytics.

Jan 2016 – Jun 2016 · 5 mos · Shanghai, China

• I founded a startup that delivered innovative data-driven insights to Chinese retailers (luxury + FMCG). Working backwards from their business objectives, I crafted product strategies + delivered products for inventory optimization and customer segmentation.

Sep 2012 – Nov 2015 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Shanghai, China

• I joined VMware because it was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to shape a new industry (cloud), in an engineering-led B2B company. I was a founding engineer at CloudFoundry, a scalable and highly-available distributed cloud platform that manages software-defined infra, services and apps. CloudFoundry was a 0-1 product initiated at VMware.

Jun 2010 – Aug 2012 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Cambridge, MA

• During my time at Harmonix, I expanded the breadth + depth of our game franchises. I was accountable for player-facing web products (APIs, FB apps and UGC backend systems).

Aug 2009 – Jul 2011 · 1 yr 11 mos · New York City, New York

• Advised on scaling issues for a popular website that helps people work towards their health goals.

Sep 2007 – Jun 2010 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Cambridge, MA

• Co-founded a popular website for colleges to organize Intramural (IM) sports leagues. At its height, 200+ US colleges (and 75k+ students) used Athleague to schedule thousands of games a week.

Jun 2004 – Sep 2007 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Cambridge, MA

• Prototyped and patented the Dual Display Content Companion (US Patent 20090254861), a networked E-Ink device that serves as a 2nd display for nearby TV content.

Jun 2003 – Aug 2003 · 2 mos · Boston, MA

• Designed, prototyped, and fabricated the electrical system for a small GPS-enabled device used to track a set of distributed vehicles. I also wrote the firmware that runs these devices, and developed the over-the-air protocol used for communication.

Jun 2002 – Aug 2002 · 2 mos · Boston, MA

• Picasa + Hello were acquired by Google in 2004 :) Helped build the first versions of Hello, a chat & image-sharing application (Windows MFC) paired with Picasa.

Jun 2001 – Aug 2001 · 2 mos · Seattle, WA

• Wrote a C++/VBA testing harness and various glass/black-box tests, to evaluate the functionality of the Microsoft Office search sidebar across all Office applications.