Carnegie Mellon University '17 | Computer Science & Statistics Product engineer - I love to build impactful product interfaces that help many users.
Experience
2022 — Now
2022 — Now
Menlo Park, California, United States
Worked on Facebook Profile team: built end to end product experiences on web and mobile for users, public figures, and businesses to express themselves, grow, and connect with their audiences
• Launched profiles for businesses and public figures
• Improved top level Facebook metrics (friending and sessions) with User Things in Common framework
• Owned Logged Out Profile views and Profile/Account Switcher on web
• Scoped and managed Timeline and Tag Review Facebook Settings on web
• Primarily used React, React Native, GraphQL, Relay, PHP
Led profile surge effort for 20+ engineers across multiple platforms
• Made technical decisions, developed roadmap, coordinated efforts across teams, derisked timelines
Contributed to profile performance improvements: decreased gCPU, Follow mutation time, and downloaded JS byte size by 5%
Owned projects end to end: scoping, implementation (UI, API, backend), QA, experiments, data analysis/ queries
Collaborated across disciplines (PMs, design, data, privacy) and with other teams
Spearheaded various efforts: yearly roadmaps, project + team retros, logging overhaul, documentation effort across the Profile organization, team alerts and monitoring
• Improved documentation favorability from 62% to 84% and increased team alert coverage
Involved in Facebook community: 50+ interviews, bootcamp/ intern mentorship, taught 25 classes
2019 — 2022
2019 — 2022
Menlo Park, California, United States
* Worked on Profile team building product experiences and features on web and mobile to help users, public figures, and businesses express themselves and grow + connect
* Created features on both web and mobile using React, React Native, GraphQL, Relay, Hack, and server side UI
2017 — 2019
2017 — 2019
Sunnyvale, CA
Yahoo View
• Worked on Yahoo View, Yahoo’s free online TV site
• Created and enhanced notable front-end features/ components using React, Node, and Fluxible
• Features include new interactive hero banner on home page, “All Shows” listings page, user onboarding workflow, and playlists
• Improved metrics such as homepage CTR and user engagement
• Drove cross-team collaboration to integrate with Yahoo Canvass team and to add fan comments functionality
• Ran A/B tests to experiment new features and added logging/ tracking to measure success in Splunk and with Google Analytics
• Wrote unit and functional tests using Chai, Mocha, and Zombie
• Worked on API endpoints in Node which provide CRUD operations for data on Yahoo View
• Added functionality such as sorting of shows/ episodes by air date and providing show recommendations by user’s browser history
• Improved performance by analyzing and modifying SQL query used to get data
Editorial Tools for Yahoo Play
• Worked on tool that schedules videos and interactive content for Yahoo Play using React and MobX
• Proposed and prototyped initial workflow ideas with design and product teams
• Implemented the core front-end features and web routes
• Added functionality including form validation to create, edit, and delete trivia for Yahoo Play shows
• Worked on rewards content management system for Yahoo Play from scratch using React and MobX
• Created core front-end features such as page sidebar, header, and tables to display and update rewards
• Worked with forms and Formik
• Wrote unit tests with chai, sinon, and enzyme for both tools
Yahoo News, Entertainment, Lifestyle
• Worked to create and improve front-end features using React and Yahoo Touchdown v2 framework
• Created a new promotion banner for mobile + desktop
• Wrote this new lightweight component that is reusable by all properties to promote apps such as Yahoo News and Yahoo Play
• Ran experiments and added tracking to measure performance
2016 — 2016
2016 — 2016
Sunnyvale, CA
(Acquired by Yahoo)
• Worked on new high-priority website Yahoo View: view.yahoo.com
• Created entirely in 7 weeks as part of the team to host free Hulu content; launched and announced by Yahoo on Aug. 8, 2016
• Worked in front-end development and created features/ components for the site using Node, React, and Fluxible
2016 — 2016
2016 — 2016
Introduced programming and CS concepts to students through recitations, office hours, one-on-one help, and grading (15-110: Principles of Computing)
Education
Carnegie Mellon University
Bachelor of Science (B.S.)
2013 — 2016
The Harker School
2009 — 2013