Experience
2023 — Now
2023 — Now
Austin, TX
Co-led the rebuild of Meta's enterprise payment platform (Project Dory), a CFO-sponsored initiative processing $50B+ annually. Managed a team of ~20 engineers from design through production launch.
• Architected the centralized Pay@ platform — 35% of payments fully automated (electronically sent to bank end-to-end) at launch, with 95% automation for tax payments onboarded via ITP ($108M processed)
• Migrated 15+ payment categories spanning $52B+ in annual volume (Tax: $7B+, Intercompany: $45B+), coordinating UAT and hypercare across global finance teams
• Built the Payment Dashboard from scratch — reduced server memory by 97% (600MB → 20MB) and page load by 70%
• Automated end-to-end payment accounting, eliminating 52 hours/month of manual journal posting with 5,600+ automated entries
• Delivered 3 features using an AI-native workflow, achieving ~4x delivery speed by directing AI with senior domain and product expertise
2020 — 2023
2020 — 2023
Austin, TX
Built and evolved Meta's internal financial close management system — the single source of truth for Meta's monthly and quarterly close process — then led automation initiatives that eliminated tens of thousands of hours of manual accounting work.
• Led Journal Entry Automation — 150+ journals automated representing $86B+ in transactions, saving 70+ hours per close cycle with 100% UAT pass rate
• Built the financial close platform end-to-end — schemas, GraphQL APIs, calendar UI, and reconciliation system supporting 7,000+ financial reconciliation cards
• Architected a post-processor framework consolidating 7 fragmented automation apps into a unified pipeline
• Piloted the concept behind Flux, a balance sheet analysis tool later praised by Meta's Controller as "the most efficient review experience in 7+ years"
• Mentored 10+ engineers across interns, FTEs, and vendor teams; conducted 37+ technical interviews
2018 — 2020
2018 — 2020
Austin, TX
Core team member on Cisco Firepower Management Center — an enterprise-grade Next-Generation Firewall management platform used by Fortune 500 companies globally.
• Led design and delivery of Realm Sequence (ordered multi-domain AD authentication for identity-based firewall policy), shipped 2 months ahead of schedule
• Developed identity-based traffic management features integrating firewall policy with Active Directory
• Built CI/CD infrastructure with Jenkins and Docker; developed REST APIs using Java Spring with Neo4j/MySQL
• Served as Scrum Master (CSM) for a team of 7 engineers
• First Place, Cisco Austin Hackathon 2019 — "Whose feature is it?!", a developer tool for instant UI module ownership lookup
2015 — 2018
Houston
2014 — 2015
2014 — 2015
Houston, Texas Area
Education
Texas A&M University
Master of Engineering (MEng)
2012 — 2014
Texas A&M University
Master of Engineering
2008 — 2011
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Bachelor's degree
2004 — 2008