Dec 2023 – Jan 2026 · 2 yrs 1 mo · San Francisco Bay Area

• I lead the Video & Performance Group at Pinterest, a team of over 20 talented individuals focused on delivering a world-class experience for over 500m MAUs.
• Key Responsibilities:
• Leadership: Manage and mentor a team of managers and technical leads.
• Performance: Lead full-stack performance initiatives for increased user engagement, revenue, and lower serving costs.
• Performance Program: Owner and Lead of the eng-wide Performance Program at Pinterest. Leading multi-team Protect (metrics, tools) and Optimize initiatives that boost engagement, revenue and lower serving costs. Holding Stakeholders accountable for maintaining performance of systems and key user experiences.
• Video Playback: Senior Manager of the Video Team. Owners of the custom video stack. Protecting and Optimizing the video playback experience for increased revenue and user engagement.

Sep 2020 – Jan 2026 · 5 yrs 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Leading the Pinterest Performance Program and 4x Platform teams (API, Android, iOS, Web). We keep and make Pinterest a fast engaging experience for our users and build in-house data and tooling to make Performance self-serve (i.e. every team owns performance).
• Highlights
• Optimizing key experiences (App launch, Search, Shopping etc.) for big-step improvements to engagement.
• Building in-house data + tooling - to protect and optimize Pinterest apps
• Collaborating with xFunctional partners (Traffic, Data, Observability, Product Teams, etc.) to identify opportunities and deliver improved experiences to users.
• Making the Performance Program a turnkey process i.e. every engineer contributes to making and keeping Pinterest fast.

Sep 2019 – Sep 2020 · 1 yr · San Francisco Bay Area

• Leading and growing the Android + iOS Performance teams at Pinterest.
• We make Pinterest fast and run the Performance Program. Some highlights -
• Optimizing key experiences (App launch, Search, Shopping etc.) for big-step improvements to engagement.
• Building in-house data + tooling - to protect and optimize Pinterest apps
• Collaborating with xFunctional partners (Traffic, Data, Observability, Product Teams) to identify opportunities and deliver improved experiences to users.
• Making the Performance Program a turnkey process i.e. every engineer contributes to making and keeping Pinterest fast.

Dec 2018 – Sep 2019 · 9 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Staff Android Engineer, Android Platform performance.

Mar 2018 – Dec 2018 · 9 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Leading the native app (iOS and Android) development team at Brigade.

Jul 2017 – Mar 2018 · 8 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Designing and implementing Brigade Android app features (Social, chat, civic tech app) utilizing the latest technologies (Kotlin, RxJava,..).

Aug 2016 – Jun 2017 · 10 mos

• Leading agile team of 8 developers on Android and iOS app with over 19 million downloads and millions of weekly active users.

Aug 2014 – Aug 2016 · 2 yrs

• Building and supporting Expedia's award winning Android app using the latest technologies (Kotlin, Robolectric test framework, RxJava, Espresso UI tests...)

Oct 2012 – Aug 2014 · 1 yr 10 mos

• One of three developers that built Expedia’s first Flight (Search to Checkout) API, which drives millions of mobile transactions per year.
• Architected and developed Expedia’s initial single-page web app framework (Backbone JS, jQuery, HTML5, CSS3) adopted by Flights, Hotels and Packages products which deliver over 15 million transactions a year.

Sep 2010 – Oct 2012 · 2 yrs 1 mo

• Developed new checkout path for Expedia's Hotels, Flights and Packages businesses.
• Worked on Enterprise Java platform with the following technologies:
• Spring 3 MVC
• JUnit
• JavaScript
• jQuery (AJAX, DOM)
• Cucumber
• CSS
• FreeMarker
• A/B Testing
• Ant, Jenkins/Hudson
• SOA with JMS

Jan 2009 – Jan 2009 · 0 mo · Greater London, England, United Kingdom

• Developed canonical link generator to increase travel guide page ranking using Java, HTML5 and CSS to produce valid links across Hotel, Air and Car businesses utilizing internal Services.

Jul 2007 – Jun 2008 · 11 mos · Greater London, England, United Kingdom

• Developed Mobile Airport check-in prototype with Java Swing. Included experimentation with J2ME.