Jun 2024 – May 2025 · 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · On-site

• Technical founder at Bramble, a highly-efficient tech-forward real estate brokerage that offers the most competitive commission rebate on the market.

Sep 2023 – Jun 2024 · 9 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Mar 2023 – Sep 2023 · 6 mos

• Leading the LinkedIn Messenger experience team.

Jun 2020 – Mar 2023 · 2 yrs 9 mos

• Leading the Messenger Recipient team, a full-stack team of 12 engineers within the LinkedIn Messenger org, responsible for serving a reliable and performant experience that enables members to follow up on conversations that matter to them.
• Developed the team's strategy to tackle its product and technology goals.
• Led the development of the Messenger inbox synchronization algorithm across the iOS, Android, and web applications.
• Led efforts to measure, operationalize, and improve the reliability of the Messenger experience.
• Led the cross-org development of foundational AI infrastructure that enables training, deploying, and serving models to power relevance in Messenger.
• Led the release of foundational Messenger features.
• Hired and grew talent, including senior ICs. Mentored new and transitioning managers in the Messenger org.
• Managing the Messenger Web application, owning its operations and championing improvements to performance, reliability, scalability, and developer productivity.
• Developed processes to scale operations, improve onboarding, and enable team cohesion for the Messenger org.

Apr 2019 – Jun 2020 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Technical lead for the Messaging Engagement team and the Messenger Product Backend team.
• Led development of critical functionality as part of the migration to a re-architected backend platform powering Messenger.
• Led the development of a unified solution for new LinkedIn Messenger entry-points, backed by a centralized system for message send permissions.
• Guided initiatives within and external to the team, ensuring the right architecture through design and code reviews.
• Mentored engineers to grow the team's talent.

Sep 2016 – Apr 2019 · 2 yrs 7 mos

• Designed and built a new platform to support video sharing and unify creation of all user-generated content at LinkedIn.
• Led the development of new features and foundational improvements for LinkedIn Messenger, including:
• A mechanism to enable efficient synchronization of members' inboxes across all of their devices
• Smart replies, AI-powered suggestions for replies to new messages
• Infrastructure optimizations to improve end-to-end message delivery latencies
• Core scalability improvements to the Messenger architecture to enable stability through site traffic growth

Aug 2015 – Sep 2016 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Built and maintained the infrastructure for the platforms supporting content sharing and the article publishing platform at LinkedIn. Drove major initiatives including building out a new externalized developer API for content sharing.

May 2014 – Aug 2014 · 3 mos · Mountain View, CA

• Analyzed potential impact of introducing relevant member-published articles into news feeds with Hadoop MapReduce.
• Automated the ramp-up of the publishing feature to 100 million members.
• Added ability to mark articles as spam from an editor’s interface.
• Added computation of a quality score for articles to improve a real-time article feed.

Aug 2014 – Jun 2015 · 10 mos · Berkeley, CA

• Taught CS 188 (Artificial Intelligence) and EE 20 (Signals and Systems) to students at UC Berkeley.

Jun 2013 – Aug 2013 · 2 mos · Los Altos, CA

• Developed a Scala web service to automate deployments of built artifacts from a Maven server to hundreds of Windows hosts.
• Integrated the service into the existing deployment infrastructure.

Jun 2012 – Aug 2012 · 2 mos · Herndon, VA

• Developed a client for a Java web service for asset management.
• Developed a new error handling system to send emails to engineers containing in-depth information about errors when they occur.

Jun 2011 – Aug 2011 · 2 mos · Herndon, Virginia, United States

• Served as a team member for a Pinkberry location, preparing the location for service, serving frozen yogurt to customers, operating the cash register, and keeping the location clean.

Jun 2010 – Aug 2010 · 2 mos · Hampton, VA

• I worked at the Atmospheric Sciences Data Center in the NASA Langley Research Center, parsing weather satellite information.