Founding Engineer (employee #2) at Sequoia, Index, Forerunner backed Series B startup building an alternative payment method.

As a Tech Lead Manager:

• Mentor and guide the Merchant Team, supporting ~100 partner merchants and building to expand.

• The team's surface area includes our SDKs, platform integrations, accounting integrations, marketing integrations, and Business Portal.

As an IC:

• Led Merchant Settlements, Accounting Reports, and our Virtual Card Integration that reduces integration time by over 50%.

As an early employee

• Developed deep knowledge across many domains and am called on to solve problems for a diverse array of teams, including sales, partner success, accounting, legal, and marketing.

Worked on Google Cloud and BigQuery to build a petabyte scale distributed time-series database to support observability tools for Google products with 1 billion+ users and Google Cloud customers.

• Developed innovative caching strategies to reduce RAM usage by over 50%

• Optimized the query engine to reduce time-to-first-response by over 90%

• 0 to 1 build of testing framework, including integration and end-to-end tests, to ensure reliability

Full stack engineer at DoorDash during a period of hyper-growth. Worked closely with highly functioning product team to support growth of all three of DoorDash primary customers: Consumer, Merchant, and Dasher.

• Built end-to-end data pipelines to support Merchant-side demand generation efforts, contributing to 150% YoY growth in merchant partners

• Owned Dasher onboarding and integration for international expansion, leading to a successful launch and rapid ascent to #3 delivery service in Australia

• Optimized Consumer Ads targeting, including integration of net-new data sources, contributing to 150% YoY growth in consumers.

See description of subsequent tenure at Google above for details on role and responsibilities.

Family commitments necessitated a temporary relocation from the Bay Area, prompting a pause in this in-person only role at Google. My remote-friendly role at DoorDash enabled continued professional growth, and upon my return to the Bay Area I returned to the same team and project at Google.