Summary
Highly versatile and ambitious software engineering professional with a strong background in mathematics and algorithms and 10+ years of engineering experience, including at Google and Meta.
Education
University of Victoria GPAs are out of 9.0.
Jan 2013 - Jan 2015
Master of Science - Computer Science
University of Victoria
Graduated with GPA of 9.0 and Work Experience
Sept 2005 - Dec 2009
Bachelor of Science - Honours in Mathematics
University of Victoria
Graduated with Distinction, Work Experience, Minor in Computer Science, and GPA of 8.0. Scored 30 on the 2009 Putnam competition.
Work Experience
Mar 2019 - Present
Senior Software Engineer
- March 2019 to May 2020: Led the development, productionization and launch of Google's Apps Script V8 Runtime.
- May 2020 to present: Working on Google Search serving infrastructure, focused on optimization and reliability efforts.
Apr 2017 - Jun 2018
Senior Software Engineer
Meta
- Made significant improvements to Facebook for Android app start-up performance.
- Led numerous optimization and feature development efforts for registration experience in emerging markets which led to significant inscreases in user growth in those markets.
- Led efforts to understand and resolve market-specific issues in Myanmar and Vietnam and participated in on-the-ground research trips to those countries.
- Worked on several projects that improved user experience for Facebook Marketplace usage in emerging 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 advertising, 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