I am a developer on the Chubby lock service, a distributed, Paxos-based locking and consensus system. Chubby is a critical component of Google's backend infrastructure, used by many internal and public-facing services.

Chubby Lock Service

• Since August 2015 I have worked on the Chubby lock service, a distributed, Paxos-based locking and consensus system. Chubby is a critical component of Google's backend infrastructure, used by many internal and public services.

Google Compute Engine

• I helped develop Preemptible Virtual Machines, which offer lower-cost cloud VMs for applications more tolerant of worker preemption and unavailability.

Borg / Omega.

• From 2012 through 2014, I worked on Google's internal cluster management systems. I primarily developed software for the scheduling and resource allocation of large batch jobs.

• Conducted research on data privacy in cloud computing with Professor Dennis Shasha.

• Led the Outsafe project to provide guaranteed database privacy on the cloud.

• Outsafe has generated two patent applications, currently pending.

• In collaboration with investors at Science House, a proposed business based on Outsafe was a finalist for the 2011 FinTech Innovation Labs startup competition.

• Demo paper on Outsafe work was accepted at the SIGMOD 2012 database conference.

• Earlier research projects include work on mobile computing for developing countries and multi-hop wireless protocols.