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Staff Software Engineer & Tech lead for Service Discovery @Meta (in Core Infrastructure)

Apache Zookeeper.

Software Engineer

Microsoft

Shipped Windows 10 Photos app ( C++ )
- Designed and implemented image analysis pipeline. This pipeline brings together various imaging algorithms together and also supports versioning.
- Performance improvements of as much as 4x across various components of the analysis pipeline.
- Solely architected the app to support multiple windows in the Photos app.
- Integrated edit pipeline from windows 8.1 Photo editor into the viewer to show users enhanced version of their photos.
- Created an internal first party API to allow other apps to use the crop control in the Photos app.
- Worked with multiple teams in windows platform to get new features added to improve Photos app. 
- Mentored junior developers.
- Connected OneDrive album experience with Photos app album experience allowing users to manage or publish albums to OneDrive.
- Added album share so that users can share their favorite albums with friends and family.
- Working on getting more features in for the Photos app.

Software Development Engineer II

Shipped windows raw codec as part of windows update on windows 8.
- Performance improvements on arm 
- Deployment schema for windows update.

Photo Editor - Windows 8.1 Photos app. ( C++ 11, Direct2D, SIMD, XAML, PPL)
- Core member for the design of image editing effect pipeline, rending engine and a variety of edit features.
- Added the direct2d rendering engine in the photo editor.
- Performance improvements for edit features using vectorization and multi core programming.
- Ensured 30FPS on most devices.
- Added image straighten, blemish removal + local area pixel fix engine, revamped crop & selective focus and other contributions

Video Trim - Windows 8.1 Photos app. ( C++ 11, XAML, PPL)
- Implemented the complete video trim feature for the photos app.

Camera - Windows 8.1 Camera App ( C++ 11, PPL, XAML)
- Improved startup performance by more than 50%
- Improved performance of other core scenarios by significant amount.
- Feature contributions.

Stood up a TFS + git based build system for the team.

Software Development Engineer

Georgia Institute of Technology

Worked on web applications for marketing studies. (Php, MySQL)

Web Developer

Added Auto Collage in Windows Photo gallery. (C++, COM)

Software Development Intern

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Pinterest

Senior Software Engineer, Web Platform

Maven

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Senior Software Engineer (Frontend Foundations)

Gusto

Frontend engineer improving accessibility, writing documentation, and building UI components.

Senior Software Engineer (Design Systems)

Full-stack engineer building products that help customers' financial stability. 

Specifically, our team worked on enabling people to access their earned wages before payday; helping thousands of people receive emergency access to cash when they need it the most.

Ruby on Rails, GraphQL, Typescript, React, and SQL

Senior Software Engineer (Financial Products)

Mid-level Software Engineer (Financial Products)

Entry-level Software Engineer (Financial Products)

Dolomite

Backend Tech Lead

Twitter

Led product additions to home timeline through the entire lifecycle, designing the Thrift and JSON additions, then implemented the infrastructure changes across 3 services in Scala. Ran A/B test to determine if the feature improved metrics.

Reduced load of calling Timelines API by allowing consumers to specify the response data they want.

Performed refactor which spanned 6 codebases, significantly simplifying logic and making code modular.

Software Engineer Intern

Lehigh University Computer Science and Business Association

Mentor students who want to hold their own workshop: Including workshops such as,
"Intro to Cryptocurrency", 
"How to Contribute to Open Source Projects", 
"How to Create a Personal Website", 
"How to get an Internship",
"How to Make Your Apps Beautiful (using MaterializeCSS and Bootstrap)"

Lead project on redesigning interactive flowchart of courses, leading to an easier time for students to plan out which courses they will take. Flowchart URL: https://csb-flowchart.firebaseapp.com/

Lead project on digitizing voting for CSBA elections, leading to a more efficient and less error-prone process.

Assist in organization of company visits to Lehigh University where the company will meet with CSB students. Companies include: Goldman Sachs, Lockheed Martin, PwC, Sanofi.

Introduced first CSB program-wide communication channel, allowing students to be able to ask questions about classes and receive various resources.

Facilitate weekly discussions at board meetings of ~20-25 people.

Delegate work to 7 other executive board members and Freshmen Representative.

President

Responsibilities include: 
1. Assist in executive duties and decisions as assigned by the President, supervise board members.
2. Ensure adherence to each role’s responsibilities.
3. Provide leadership and guidance to other board members.

Achievements:

Researched and solved issues regarding search engine optimization. By the end, our website was accessible through the first 2 links of a search on all major search engines.

Created the ability for CSB students and Programming Club (ACM) members to sign up for mock technical interviews. This was not previously available at Lehigh University. Since the creation of the mock technical interviews, many students have gained practice they otherwise would not have had.

Held a workshop on how to make a personal website for CSB students. Within a few weeks after the workshop, multiple people who attended the workshop have told me they made their own website and/or made a website for a class project.

Managed the Mentor-Mentee program, a system designed to help incoming freshmen with the transition into the rigorous Computer Science & Business program.

Consistently presented in front of over 200 students in the CSB major

Vice President

Built backend infrastructure in Scala which laid the groundwork for allowing any team to send in-app prompts to users. Then wrote the backend logic for the first use case of this infrastructure, leading to ~500,000 users/day being prompted to make their account more secure by confirming or reviewing their email. When users confirm their email it makes their account more secure because if they forget their password, they are able to get a new one.

Interacted between multiple micro-services using Thrift to create remote procedural (RPC) calls across teams.

Wrote design documentation for changing requirements, working across multiple teams for approval.

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