Tech Lead for Maps Content : Sole ramped engineer for 2+ years on a 250M daily view / 10M daily user platform;
Onboarded and mentored engineers during full team rebuild, authored multiple engineering design
documents, and led incident response during major outages and spam attacks.
Owned technical roadmap end-to-end — defined product direction with Principal PMs, authored and reviewed
engineering design docs, scoped and prioritized 2–3 high-impact projects per cycle under tight budget constraints; collaborated across Content Infra, Trust & Safety, Security, Client/Mobile, and Spotlight orgs with VP-level visibility
Implemented Spotlight Posting Hints driving a 30% increase in Spotlight snaps posting to places; led XFN initiative with Content Automoderation and T&S applying ML moderation to Map content, reducing commercial sexual violations from 20% → 2% — resolving a CEO-level issue drawing regulatory scrutiny from MENA governments
Architected Place Loyalty end-to-end — Dataflow pipelines computing top places for 260M+ users / 4TB+ daily data→ DynamoDB-backed personalized tilesets with rollback and S3 overflow handling → serving layer targeting
100–150K QPS, delivered within $500/day cost budget
Launched personalized thumbnail serving on the basemap at 250K peak QPS / 1.2M cache QPS, engineering
cost-optimized infrastructure through aggressive caching strategies at under $400/day
Designed and executed Maps Content STMS migration, eliminating duplicated data across the content serving layer
Cost Champion for 3+ quarters — saved $1.2M (6% of team budget) in H1 2024.
Maps Security Lead triaging and resolving 33 director-visibility vulnerabilities across 45+ services; led migration of Maps stack from static API keys to OAuth 2.0 / Workload Identity Pools
