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• Joined founding team of Soulsmile Club (www.soulsmile.club), a quickly growing tech non-profit startup that provides a unique donation platform where users can give a portion of their online purchases to charities fighting pressing global issues like COVID-19 and racial injustice

• Led fast-paced, full-stack technical development for a web app and browser extension, building from the ground up using JavaScript, React, Firebase Auth/Realtime Database, Material-UI, and more -- all while conducting user research studies, creating strategic marketing materials, developing long-term business plans, and working on user and partner outreach

• Created 9 new cross-placement measurement metrics and visualizations to better understand user sentiment and the quality of ads on 25+ Facebook placement areas -- built data pipelines with SQL and Python and presented insights to team

• Collaborated with software engineers, data scientists, data engineers, UX researchers, and PMs from teams throughout Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger to communicate my findings and drive growth throughout the company

• Improved code quality and organization on ads infrastructure in C++ and Thrift, cleaning up 1700+ lines of legacy code and creating 5 new logging metrics to organize data, and built new, optimized ML model training flow using Facebook's ML tools

• Taught theoretical computer science course covering topics such as universal hashing, BSTs, graph algorithms, dynamic programming, network flows, NP-completeness theory, and approximation algorithms

• Taught 200+ freshmen and sophomores in Penn's introductory data structures and algorithms course

• Led weekly recitations with 15-20 students, held office hours for help with debugging and conceptual understanding, and wrote and graded homework assignments and exams (both programming and theoretical)

• Covered Java programming, BSTs, graph algorithms, searching and sorting, runtime analysis, and more