Backend & Search Engineer with deep experience building distributed systems, search/relevance infrastructure, and event-driven pipelines at scale. Skilled in performance optimization, observability, experimentation frameworks, and cross-team technical leadership.
Experience
2022 — Now
2022 — Now
New York, New York, United States
• Reduced MultiSearch latency ~40% by redesigning OpenSearch query structure, removing redundant aggregations, and delivering a production-ready MultiSearch API.
• Architected an event-driven orchestration layer (EventBridge → Step Functions → Lambda) for indexing and data routing with strong idempotency and fault tolerance.
• Rebuilt observability for search/relevance systems, adding metrics, structured logs, dashboards, and alerts that significantly cut debugging time.
• Standardized Statsig experimentation for ranking features, adding guardrails, improving metric integrity, and accelerating iteration for DS + Product.
• Improved search relevance quality by tightening signal validation, strengthening multi-source request handling, and fixing indexing inconsistencies.
• Reduced operational load by eliminating noisy endpoint traffic, improving feature-flag rollouts, and stabilizing internal search endpoints.
• Maintained large-scale ETL pipelines (Snowflake, Airflow, Glue, Lambda, S3) powering event ingestion, feature generation, and ranking workflows.
• Partnered with Search, DS, and Product to shape ranking improvements, refine demos, write specs, and drive cross-pillar technical decisions.
2020 — 2022
2020 — 2022
New York, New York, United States
• C3.ai provides scalable big data & IoT machine learning applications to enterprise customers.
• Core work involves scalable data model design (Postgres, Cassandra), analysis, cleaning (Pandas), integration (internal JavaScript frameworks) & feature development (Jupyter).
• Leverage tools like Splunk to diagnose potential environmental issues, scaling requirements, and job optimization (Batch Jobs, MapReduce etc) on complex distributed systems deployed across various cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure).
2019 — 2020
2019 — 2020
Austin, Texas Area
• SkyGrid is a Boeing, SparkCognition company that is enabling the future of urban aerial mobility.
• Implemented scalable communication logic between the client and a myriad of backend Docker based micro-services. Some of these services were traditional REST APIs while others were web sockets (Pulsar) used to track drone location in realtime etc.
• Engineered core stakeholder features such as airspace awareness, radar detection, EOS Blockchain smart contract calls, route generation, drone marker tracking on a live map (2D/3D), generating multiple map layers (weather, traffic, COVID-19 density, etc) via Mapbox API.
2018 — 2019
2018 — 2019
Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area
• Member of a small team working on IBM Cloud Datashield, software that runs on Kubernetes clusters using Intel SGX chips. Datashield enables applications to keep their data encrypted, even while it’s in use.
• Integrated the backend logic of IBM Cloud Datashield as a service within IBM Cloud using Node JS, Docker, & Kubernetes.
• Automated product delivery & integration mechanisms using Groovyscript inside Jenkins pipelines & cloud functions.
• Wrote robust unit and end-to-end testing systems in Chai & Axios.
2017 — 2018
2017 — 2018
San Diego County, California, United States
• SnapIoT is a life sciences company specializing in developing modern streamlined solutions for the healthcare industry.
• Worked on updating several of their iOS/Android apps (Swallow-Rehapp on App Store/Google Play) as well as adding additional classes to their SDK for the snapp.click project, which is a drag and drop interface for people to make their own native iOS, Android, & Web apps without having to write any code.
Education
UC San Diego
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science
2013 — 2017