Full-Stack (Ruby on Rails and React/TS) developer on the Affordable Housing team where we worked on a public facing housing portal (https://housing.sfgov.org).

Tech lead a project to convert the site from a legacy technology to React and Typescript with a gradual migration path.

2017 - 2021, Anti-discrimination team:

Tech-lead for various projects to reduce discrimination and systemic racial bias on Airbnb, including:

• A feature to hide guest photos from hosts until their booking is confirmed. This feature had the largest impact to reduce discrimination in the history of the team.

• An API-powered spelling and grammar suggestion UI launched as A/B experiment. This reduced discrimination by minimizing biased signals, such as capitalization in messages.

2015 - 2017, Instant Book team:

• Built various product enhancements to increase Instant Book usage by hosts across site and Android app. In just two years these changes enabled Instant Book growth from less than 30% of all bookings to over 70%.

Technologies used on both teams:

3-5 years experience: React + Rails Fullstack development

2 years Experience: Android/Kotlin

1.5 years experience: Backend development (Java) as a service owner and maintainer

Used GWT to redesign the outline view on an internal web-based application development tool, developed user interface tests using Selenium WebDriver, wrote design documents for my projects, documented and reviewed code, and validated bug fixes.

Contributed to BugBox, an exploit database for PHP web applications, developed python scripts using Selenium WebDriver to automate exploits on web applications, and created animations and a JavaScript based visualization tool to communicate our research to people outside of the cyber security field.