Bachelor of Science - BS

- Software development and system architecture consulting on a contractual basis.

Staff Software Developer

- Tech lead for the Ubiquitous Data Encryption effort on Google Cloud.
- Coordinated with partner company engineers to launch product at Google Cloud Next ’21.
- Implemented services to enable identity attestation for Confidential Computing.
- Augmented AutoML-Zero infrastructure to optimize ML model training.

Software Engineer II

- TA for CPSC 320: Intermediate Algorithm Design and Analysis.
- Held weekly office hours to assist students with coursework and exam preparation.
- Ran tutorial sessions to complement material discussed in lectures.

Undergraduate Teaching Assistant

- Designed and implemented changelog feature for an internal Java backend.
- Led formal design review process to facilitate discussion with other engineers.
- Worked with protocol buffers to create service endpoints using RPC frameworks.

Software Engineering Intern

- Trained LDA and CRF machine learning models from large text corpora using Python.
- Developed a macOS menu bar application in Swift as a one-week intern project.
- Improved the functionality of Go and Node.js backends of multiple projects.
- Set up a local server for hosting private Python packages.

- Developed a unified, company-wide microservice configuration UI using React and Go.
- Met with multiple teams to identify the needs of various developers & service operators.
- Advanced an initiative to migrate existing microservices to an improved standard.

- Standardized schema to ensure regionalized Gmail policies are respected.
- Coordinated migration of internal mail clients to newly partitioned gRPC endpoints.

Software Developer III

- Drove product rewrite with milestone plan to reduce support burden by 70%.
- Automated repetitive tasks through scripting, saving dozens of support hours per engineer.
- Introduced and ran engineering retrospectives and postmortems for continuous improvement.
- Prevented site downtime via proactive operations monitoring and playbook write-ups.

Senior Software Developer

- Tech lead for a project in partnership with external sports leagues and broadcasters.
- Optimized a real-time application, reducing operational costs by over 30×.
- Integrated software development and DevOps best practices into team workflow.
- Performed security audit on product, resolving critical vulnerabilities.

Senior Backend Engineer

Senior Backend Engineer @ MLSE Digital Labs

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