August 2024 - Present

Staff Software Engineer

• Fleet Orchestration and Optimization: build systems to schedule tasks on cars and direct them to appropriate places at the right times.

January 2022 - August 2024

Senior Software Engineer, Mission Planning Tech Lead

• Lead a team of 5+ engineers to build systems that configure, validate, schedule, enforce, and collect progress on driving missions on a fleet of thousands of vehicles and personnel.

• Work cross functionally with PMs, ProdOps, and Planning to build supply optimization tooling to increase fleet efficiency, using Angular Typescript and C++.

• Remotely mentor a newly established sister engineering team in Poland.

October 2020 - January 2022: Senior SWE-SRE IV

• Co-Tech Lead for YouTube Discovery SRE, a team of 12 engineers.

• Lead for machine learning services and frameworks, user data reliability, personalization systems.

March 2019 - October 2020: SWE-SRE III

• Drove the migration of personalized services at YouTube from monolithic frameworks into more modular infrastructure.

• Optimized user data serving at YouTube from abuse protection to soft stickiness cache optimization.

July 2017 - March 2019: SWE-SRE II

• Productionized machine learning backends for YouTube's homepage and recommendation systems.

• Automated release processes for YouTube's homepage and Search services.

Built a minimal compiler that translates custom user commands to binary code.

Conduct FIT tests on flight software modules for the NISAR satellite.

Implemented a parallel system for processing large stem cell databases.

Write and maintain custom data analysis programs for 12+ hours a week using Python.

Lab Website: http://ronglulab.usc.edu/

Publication: http://www.cell.com/cell-reports/abstract/S2211-1247(16)30505-8