Experience
2024 — Now
2024 — Now
Manhattan, New York, United States
2023 — 2024
2023 — 2024
New York, New York, United States
Java, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, SQL, Closure Templates
• Spearheaded the development of high-fidelity Markdown import and export for Docs, enhancing its compatibility with numerous content management systems and resulting in a user importing or exporting Markdown every second.
• Co-led a foundational rearchitecture of the Google Docs backend, frontend, and data model to implement tabs in Docs, including updating all cross-cutting features, resulting in ~1.75 tabs on average for recently opened documents.
2020 — 2023
2020 — 2023
New York, New York, United States
Java, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, SQL, Closure Templates
• Increased developer productivity by implementing automatic Markdown detection and conversion for Google Docs and Slides, resulting in ~1.2 million automatic weekly conversions.
• Boosted Google Docs collaboration by 8% by developing a real-time email alert system, complete with subscription settings and document diffs for recent edits, that sends ~300,000 weekly emails, as a member of a 3-person team.
• Independently empowered Google Docs users with improved data organization by developing an option to split table cells, leading to ~1.15 million weekly cell splits.
• Jointly implemented code block support in Google Docs, including automatic Markdown detection and conversion, resulting in ~90,000 weekly code block insertions, with 25% from Markdown conversion.
• Integrated Gemini into Google Docs to enable GenAI content generation and rewrites, complete with headings, lists, tables, and other rich content, as a member of a large team, resulting in ~150,000 weekly usages.
• Streamlined finding new and important comments in Google Docs with comment badging and filtering, boosting reply creation and comment resolutions by 2%.
• Developed dynamic Drive sharing emails that automatically update with the latest thumbnail, owner, and edit details via a high-performance endpoint handling 300 queries per second, resulting in 6% fewer short sessions from the emails.
• Simplified Google Docs and Slides authoring with shared prefix substitution rule support, and en- and em-dash substitution, resulting in a 45% increase in substitutions and no change in undo rates.
2019 — 2019
Trenton, NJ
Ruby, PostgreSQL, HTML, SCSS, Rails, SendGrid
• Implemented an MVC full stack web application with Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL for the Trenton-based non-profit organization, Mercer Street Friends, to efficiently manage its internal work order requests.
2019 — 2019
2019 — 2019
Greater New York City Area
Java, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Closure Templates
• Worked on the Google Sites team to develop a feedback feature for ensuring sites remain current.
• Built a fully asynchronous backend with Java and a modular frontend with a component-based JavaScript framework.
• Internationalized the existing email infrastructure by implementing proper text alignment for right-to-left languages.
Education
The College of New Jersey
Bachelor's degree
2016 — 2019
Tenafly High School
2012 — 2016