• Authors and implements frontend features for Tactile, Google Maps' desktop web application using Typescript, Sass, and HTML

Serving as technical point person for saved lists

• Successfully delivered a high-priority "emojification" features for improving trip planning through saved lists, driving a 55% higher CTR for list creation and an 18% increase in overall saving interactions.

• Directed weekly taskforce meetings to unblock engineering workstreams and align with PM/UX on critical bug triaging.

• Enhanced product reliability and user experience across both web and mobile versions of the Maps platform.

• Executed a comprehensive UI redesign focused on reducing friction for travel planning, including the implementation of side-by-side views, resulting in a 53% increase in place opens from the UI and a 3% increase in travel-related place interactions

Instructor for the Fall 2024 iteration of CSCI100 (Introduction to Computer Science) as part of the Google In Residence Program.

Lead weekly sessions that teach college students software engineering principles

Served as a mentor figure as students build projects with UX and entrepreneurship students

Authored code fixes and enhancements for inclusion in future code to Maps Lite, a mobile UI for Google Web Maps using Javascript and HTML

Evaluated project requirements and specifications and developed software applications that met client expectations.

Chosen as one of 40 scholars to live in silicon valley, and learn at Google Headquarters for a semester for “Tech Exchange,” a domestic exchange program by Google for underrepresented students in Tech

Took applied computer science courses taught by Google engineers and experts in the field in the following areas:

Applied Data Structures & Algorithms, Software Development Studio, Machine Learning, Human Computer Interaction, Database Systems, Product Management, Entrepreneurship and Lean Startups