Experience
2025 — Now
2025 — Now
• Tech Lead, GenAI Creator Tools: Spearheaded technical strategy and cross-functional execution for flagship GenAI features (Restyle, Lipsync, ClipGen). Established cross-platform engineering "swimlanes" to synchronize complex AI model integrations with core editing workflows.
• Founding Lead, Agentic Editing: Incubated "Vibe Editing" from a prototype to a formal "IG AI Bet" workstream. Defined the technical foundations for the agentic-layer workflow and state management, that translates natural language prompts into complex manual editing sequences.
• Architected scalable GenAI Infrastructure: Designed a unified asynchronous video generation framework now leveraged by all GenAI features; reduced maintenance overhead by 60% and accelerated feature ship-time by ~40% through modular, reusable architectural patterns.
2019 — 2025
2019 — 2025
• Technical lead for a mobile team of 5 Android and 5 iOS developers. Responsible for setting the direction for team members, reviewing all designs, guiding development, and coordinating cross-functional efforts.
• Scale Spaces from member size 400 → 500K.
As the client technical lead, oversaw a team of 15 engineers across Android, iOS, and Web, successfully scaling Spaces from 400 to 500K users, facilitating the migration of Google Currents to Chat
This unblocks Google WS adoption for many large customers (100K+ seats)
• Established Android feature guidelines for Chat. Collaborated with over 5 technical leads across all Chat pillars to determine guidelines over two quarters. Adopted by over 30 features across all Chat pillars (50 Android Engineers), resulting in a 15% improvement in feature velocity
2018 — 2019
2018 — 2019
San Francisco Bay Area
2015 — 2018
2015 — 2018
★ Amazon Key (Feb 2017 - present) ★
• Built and led the Android team from its inception, growing it to 8 engineers. Successfully launched two core services: In-Home and In-Garage deliveries.
• Owned the entire app architecture. Designed and built key components of the app - device setup, lock widget, activity feed, notifications..
• Built a configurable framework to support 10+ device configurations with 50+ screens. This resulted in a 60% faster onboarding for new device types (compared to iOS).
• Provided technical leadership to a team of 8 Android engineers. Partnered closely with product management and UX.
★ Goodreads (Nov 2015 - Feb 2017) ★
• Built multiple features - book scanner, reading challenge, account onboarding on FireOS. Book scanner increased book shelve actions for Android users by 4%.
• Introduced the M-V-P pattern for the stateful book buy feature in the book page improving testability. Later adopted by other features.
• Mentored junior developers.
2013 — 2015
2013 — 2015
Greater San Diego Area
★ Qualcomm Mobile Learning (July 2014 - November 2015) ★
Worked on projects across multiple platforms.
Android :
• Overhauled a Language app shrinking the code, making it easier to maintain using M-V-P. Added simple offline caching for all the videos by migrating it to Kaltura.
• Helped design and implement features on Qualcomm Education's Android app and SDK.
iOS:
• Worked on the iOS equivalent of the Language app adding offline caching.
• Implemented the native part of a Cordova version-check plugin for the internal appstore.
NodeJs:
• Worked on a food finder webapp to help employees find and post food in meeting rooms.
• Created a dynamic photo slideshow for the QTech event leveraging the grid rotator jquery plugin.
Php:
• Developed an employee photocontest website while employing a rudimentary MVC architecture.
★ Modem Software Engineer WCDMA (Mar 2013 - July 2014) ★
Education
Virginia Tech