About

Work Experience

• Senior Software Engineer, Pindrop

  May, 2020 - Present

  Pindrop applies cutting edge artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques in order to bring security, identity, and trust to every voice interaction.

  Now a late-stage startup, when I joined the company was going through a period of exponential growth. In a relatively short period of time I had been exposed to many layers of the application stack and have gained significant experience in many aspects of software engineering.

  The needs of working at such a startup have exposed me to non-trivial experience in many software engineering topics including: data-engineering, cli development, library development, tooling improvements, analytics, distributed applications, ci/cd, build tooling, sql (database) optimizations, and much more.

  Recent Highlights:

  • Architected and implemented a framework built on top of AWS Lambda and Terraform allowing for programmatic management of internal platforms
    [kubernetes, rds, terraform, aws lambda]

  • Worked with internal support team to design and implemented a process to automatically migrate customers into our cloud environment.

  • Created developer tooling to spin up full production environments using firecracker virtual machines enabling a deployment process which has decreased from ~10 minutes to ~30 seconds

  • Discovered significant cost saving opportunities by analyzing a complex build system and designing an alternative process to reduce development costs by over $100K yearly. [esbuild,snowpack,deno,node.js]

  • Implemented an alternate build system for a large production-critical react application using esbuild instead of webpack. Eliminated hundreds of npm dependencies in the process and reduced the build duration by over 99% (from > 7 minutes to < 6 seconds!)

• Software Engineer II, Pindrop

  Apr, 2018 - May, 20202 years 1 month

  • Overhauled a monolithic legacy application into a modular React-based architecture resulting in over 85% code coverage and a 87% decrease in build time.

  • Programmed a performance testing utility which could simulate phone call data at a rate of over 2 billion calls a year.
    [Ruby, Rails, Bash]

  • Maintained performance critical code and implemented bottleneck-optimizations in a distributed high-performance application.
    [Ruby, Rails, Typescript, Python, Go]

  • Pushed for and executed an initiative to improve automated code linting in a legacy application. Oversaw a 93% reduction of lint warnings and errors.
    [Rubocop, Ruby, Rails]

  • Designed the architecture for a design system of reusable components.
    [React, Javascript, Typescript,Rollup]

  • Created a framework for building a unified UI which relied on GraphQL to allow for a modular system of backend/frontend interaction.
    [React, GraphQL, Apollo, JavaScript, Typescript]

  • Led application development team, provided subject matter expertise, and collaborated with other teams to build features which closed a multi-million dollar contract on time.

• Software Engineer (Backend), Pindrop

  Jun, 2017 - Apr, 201810 months

  • Improved data processing algorithms to decrease computation time by over 98% (from 218s to 3.5s).
    [SQL, Performance]

  • Designed and implemented continuous integration pipeline to improve efficiency of build process decreasing build time by 80% (from 25 min to < 5).
    [Ruby, CI/CD, Bash, DevEx]

  • Worked with multiple stakeholders to determine application requirements and implemented custom internal configuration management software.
    [React, Redux, Javascript, Flow.js]

  • Architected and implemented a reporting application capable of performing complex queries over vast datasets containing data about hundreds of millions of phone calls a year.
    [Ruby, Rails, Data Warehousing, Adhoc Reporting, Performance]

• Teacher's Assisstant - Computer Security, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  Dec, 2016 - May, 20175 months

  • Helped arrange lab activities to strengthen pragmatic cybersecurity skills.

  • Managed grading and planning of lab sessions.

• Software Engineer (Intern), Networked Insights

  May, 2016 - Sep, 20164 months

  • Studied an existing architecture and created a drop-in replacement for a data collection service intended to replace a soon-to-be-deprecated API.
    [Java,Big Data, Data Firehose]

  • Refactored data collector API, identified inefficiencies, and improved performance by over 3x.
    [Optimization, Performance]

  • Migrated a polling approach to a pub-sub architecture bringing latency of realtime social media data to a consistent level.

• Software Engineer (Intern), First Trust

  May, 2015 - Sep, 20154 months

  First Trust is a financial services company established in 1991 to offer trusted investment advice and services.

  This was a valuable internship because I was able to experience a lot of technology which went parallel to the eventual industry standard (think mercurial vs git).

  • Developed an app to maintain FTP credentials

  • Automated testting FTP credentials, purging invalid configs, and detecting missing configuration values.

Projects Experience

• Cloud Migration Toolkit, Pindrop

  Sep, 2020 - May, 20217 months

  Internal library and CLI application for automating migration from an on-premise system to a system hosted on AWS and kubernetes.

  • Python, Terraform, Kubernetes, Node, AWS/S3, AWS/SSM, AWS/RDS, AWS/Lambda, AWS/Networking / Security Groups

  • Created a framework which provides a modular way to collect, transform, and transport data (including configurations and trained ML models) between different systems and architectures.

  • Utilized Terraform to automate creation of infrastructure but also allowed for the migration pipeline to utilize existing (and externally managed) AWS resources.

• Parallel Make, UIUC

  Sep, 2015 - Oct, 20151 month

  Reverse-engineered gnu-make

  • Implemented topological sort dependency resolution algorithm to efficiently parallelize tasks

• Memory Allocator, UIUC

  Oct, 2015 - Nov, 20151 month

  Designed and implemented an alternate implementation of the malloc() function.

  • Created a dynamic memory allocation strategy to vary the size of memory based on application need

  • Achieved performance 15% faster than that of glibc

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