Palo Alto, California, United States
• Introduced hashtags and hashtag search infrastructure, including type-ahead suggestions and direct hashtag content linking, resulting in ~13 million generated hashtags in ~5.5 million posts between late 2022 and early 2024
• Spearheaded a company-wide refactor of text handling to prevent XSS attacks, which created a new company vocabulary and resulted in a secure system as judged by external penetration testers
• Collaborated to implement public and private chat at-mentions and notifications, resulting in over 209k new chat at-mentions in three months
• Collaborated to create highlighted hashtags, resulting in 44% of hosts selecting highlighted over neutral hashtags in suggestion lists in a 90 day period
• Key engineer behind introducing backend support for Quizzes
• Performed Product Manager tasks in absence of PM, and led numerous meetings, which included C-suite staff, to establish consensus on critical product decisions
• Acted as technical project lead for several releases, and as the technical point of contact for Customer Success and Product Management.