Software Engineer

Dec 2024 - Present

• Optimized SWE-Bench-style training tasks and evals for AI coding agents.
• Improved the build system for app frameworks, SDKs, and firmware for Ray-Ban Meta and Ray-Ban Meta Display.
• Developed Ray-Ban Meta 2nd gen product features like posting images and videos directly from smartglasses to Facebook and Instagram.

Software Engineer (Payments)

Aug 2022 - Dec 2024

• Increased 2023 revenue from reservations by $1M+ by reducing false positives in risk detection.
• Designed and built a user verification challenge to prevent credit card chargeback fraud.
• Handled on-call and incidents related to payments processing and hourly data pipelines.
• Productionized ML models for risk detection into Airbnb's financial fraud defense system.

Software Engineering Intern (Infrastructure)

May 2021 - Aug 2021

• Designed and built an internal developer tool with 500+ WAU that samples payloads from live Airbnb web traffic and anonymizes data for safe testing and training
• Automated the generation of documentation for 100+ microservices and their RPC APIs.

Software Engineer

Sept 2020 - March 2021

• Contributed open-sourced code to Dagster, a cloud-native data pipeline orchestrator.
• Interviewed data engineers and ML engineers from companies, including Apple, DoorDash, and Drizly, to understand pain points in their existing data infrastructure.
• Operated testing environments for deploying Dagster data pipelines on AWS, GCP, and Azure.
• Built demos for prospective customers to showcase how Dagster scales horizontally on the cloud.

Technical Marketing Intern

June 2020 - August 2020

• Published documentation and technical marketing copy for Intel hardware plugins on Kubernetes.
• Designed and delivered a marketing demo to showcase 5x Redis performance (operations per second) when using Intel Optane Persistent Memory compared to disk.
• Operated testing environments for deploying Dagster data pipelines on AWS, GCP, and Azure.
• Answered customer questions about Intel's open source projects at KubeCon EU 2020.

Software Engineer Intern

May 2018 - July 2018

• Reduced search query latency by 83% and improved relevancy and typo resistance by replacing a naive SQL query with Algolia Search API.
• Decreased the main website's page load time by reducing JavaScript bundle size by 15%.

Technical Staff

Sept 2017 - May 2020

• Designed and built a web app for handling conference marketing and ticket sales, used by 1000+ monthly applicants from 70+ countries around the world.
• Created a web-based analytics dashboard for our team executives and sponsors to understand applicant demographics and attendee engagement.