Liabilities, Investments, and Transactions team

As a software engineer at Zumper, a leading online rental marketplace, I had a proven track record of delivering high-quality, efficient solutions. My expertise included optimizing system performance, enhancing developer velocity, and increasing customer engagement.

• Redesigned microservices architecture, reducing resource consumption by 90% while maintaining single-digit latency; saved tens of thousands of dollars per month on AWS resources.

• Successfully refactored a monolithic codebase into a monorepo, modularizing code into libraries and services, and upgrading from Python 2 to Python 3.

• Engineered a high-performance email delivery service, efficiently delivering millions of emails per month.

• Led data engineering initiatives, including deploying the Airflow 2 upgrade and building an A/B testing engine that increased email click rates.

• Developed reusable microservice and library templates using CookieCutter, Docker, Terraform, commit hooks, and Nomad, significantly boosting developer productivity.

• Developed and deployed Zumper's first programmatic ad product, enabling millions of landlords to effortlessly promote their rental listings; this became a primary source of recurring revenue. Technologies used: Django, Apache Thrift, Postgres, and columnar formatting.

• Boosted website search inventory by creating APIs to integrate external feeds, adding hundreds of thousands of new property listings to the platform.

• Utilized Python, JavaScript, Django, React, and Postgres to drive improvements and enhance the platform's functionality.

The Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Fellowship Program offers top U.S. college and graduate students a chance to work inside innovative Silicon Valley startups. KPCB Engineering Fellows join our portfolio companies, where they develop their technical skills and are mentored by an executive within the company.

• Worked on recreating the Netlogo web application, a popular open source modeling tool, utilizing Python, JavaScript, and HTML/CSS stack.

• Implemented new simulation behaviors while improving the GUI and Web code editor to provide advanced IDE features.