Summary
Highly versatile and ambitious software engineer with over 10 years of experience, including senior roles at Google and Meta, and a strong foundation in mathematics, algorithms and distributed systems.
Education
University of Victoria GPAs are on a 9.0 scale.
Jan 2013 - Jan 2015
Master of Science - Computer Science
University of Victoria
Graduated with GPA of 9.0
Sept 2005 - Dec 2009
Bachelor of Science - Honours in Mathematics
University of Victoria
Graduated with Distinction, Minor in Computer Science, GPA of 8.0 and score of 30 on the 2009 Putnam competition.
Work Experience
Mar 2019 - May 2024
Senior Software Engineer
- Led the development, productionization, and launch of Google's Apps Script V8 Runtime.
- Led the design and development of multiple major projects to improve reliability and efficiency of critical components of Google Search serving infrastructure.
Apr 2017 - Jun 2018
Senior Software Engineer
Meta
- Made significant improvements to the Facebook for Android app start-up performance.
- Led engineering efforts to help Myanmar's migration to Unicode by building Facebook's Burmese font-detection and auto-conversion systems.
- Contributed to understanding and resolving market-specific issues in emerging markets, in particular in Myanmar and Vietnam, resulting in significant increases in user growth in those markets.
Jan 2015 - Feb 2017
Software Engineer
- Led a major storage and CPU cost reduction optimization project across multiple Google product areas, in particular within Ads, Search, and YouTube.
- Led the design and development of a complex parallelized data analysis pipeline to mine for optimization opportunities and provide resource usage insight.
- Contributed to the development and maintenance of a key piece of Google's Display Ads serving infrastructure.
Sep 2008 - Dec 2014
Teaching Assistant
University of Victoria
Assisted in teaching the following courses:
- CSc 326: Algorithms and Data Structures II
- Math 300: Advanced Calculus
- Math 362: Number Theory
- CSc 115: Fundamentals of Programming II
- Math 100 & 101: Calculus I & II
- Math 110: Linear Algebra for Engineers
Key Skills
- Algorithms
- C++
- Python
- Distributed Systems
- Low Latency High QPS Serving
- Large Scale Data Analysis Pipelines
Awards
- 2012 University of Victoria's Outstanding Graduate Entrance Award
- 2012 University of Victoria's Graduate Fellowship Award
- 2008 University of Victoria's President’s Award
- 2007 University of Victoria's Stephen A. Jennings Award
- 2007 University of Victoria's Top International Student Award