Experience
2025 — Now
2025 — Now
San Francisco, CA
Data research and assorted sidequests for a new kind of frontier model
2016 — 2018
2016 — 2018
San Francisco, CA
Engineer #5, full-stack+product; React+Python
• Internal tooling (modeling, back-end, UI) to help A&R team find artists and songs
• Distribution product for artists to upload and submit releases to streaming services for a rev-share, plus payment, built in React
• Full-stack (data collection, UI, anomaly detection, infra) for large React newsfeed-esque feature built that updated artists on the performance of their social media and releases
2013 — 2016
2013 — 2016
Menlo Park, California, USA
2013-2015:
Platform Developer Experience
PHP/Hack, Javascript/Flow/React
• Improvements and new features on developers.facebook.com, including changes necessary for app-scoped IDs (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/apps/for-business), app review (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/apps/review/), and generating documentation for Facebook's SDKs
• Maintenance and new features for the Facebook Javascript SDK and social plug-ins like the Like button
• Shipped a Reactified re-write of the Facebook comments plugin (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/comments) at f8 2015
• Managed relationship and integration with a big external partner for social plugins
• Prototyped Facebook Embedded Videos at a Hackathon and shipped to developers at f8 2015 (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/embedded-video-player/)
2015-2016:
iOS News Feed Experience
Objective-C, Components
News Feed in the Facebook iOS app
Implemented various features across news feed stories, comments, and reactions, and A/B testing features to test efficacy
Primary POC for iOS comments
2012 — 2012
2012 — 2012
Menlo Park, California, USA
2010 — 2010
2010 — 2010
Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area
Education
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
2009 — 2013