Work Experience
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Member of Technical Staff
Upthere, Inc.
October 2015 — August 2017
- Developing software running on embedded devices.
- Developing OCR for scanned documents and face recognition for photos.
- Created monitoring and dashboard tools for Upthere's stack.
- Built Upthere's corporate website.
- Improved Upthere's search and web infrastructure.
Cassandra, ElasticSearch, Ceph, microservices, Web, Golang
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SDE
Amazon.com, Inc.
June 2014 — October 2015
- Launched several browsing engagement experiences for Amazon Fashion across Amazon.com, increasing annual revenue by +$16MM.
- Launched Kindle Bookstore for the Amazon Fire Phone.
- Led team through development process as scrum master.
- Spearheaded several hardware and software migration efforts.
Mobile web, Spring MVC, Java
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AWS Infrastructure Intern
Amazon.com, Inc.
May 2013 — August 2013
- Designed and implemented a service analysis service to achieve better utilization at lower cost with AWS hardware.
- Advised Amazon service owners in identifying optimal hardware types for their services using this tool.
Rails, Redshift, S3, RDS
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Clinic Project Manager
Quantcast Corporation &
Harvey Mudd College
August 2012 — May 2013
- Developed a GPU data compression and analysis library to offload computation onto the GPU.
- Designed and developed several parallel Huffman Encoding algorithms using CUDA framework.
CUDA, C++
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DevOps Intern
Hulu, LLC
June 2012 — August 2012
- Developed a tracker for networked assets on the Hulu campus using device locations, user logins, VPN logins, and arbitrary data sources. Developed a visualization web application.
- Integrated a multi-user, privileged, web-based password safe into existing infrastructure.
SNMP,
Rails,
Python,
MySQL
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CS Tutor/Grader & Staff
Harvey Mudd College
Fall 2010 — Spring 2014
- Tutored and graded computer science courses, including Algorithms, Distributed Systems, and Programming Languages.
- Maintained and managed the department's machine cluster.
Leadership and Activities
(Highlights)
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Engineer Recruiting
Interviewed potential software engineers for Amazon
November 2014 — October 2015
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Hardware Manager
Managed engineering hardware for Amazon Fashion
October 2014 — October 2015
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Class President
Served four years as class president at Harvey Mudd
Fall 2010 — Spring 2014
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Director
Organized Caltech Harvey Mudd Math Competition
Fall 2012
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Representative
Computing Committee, Harvey Mudd College
Fall 2011
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System Administrator
Computing and Information Services Department
Fall 2011
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Mathcamp
Canada/USA Mathcamp
Summer 2009, Summer 2010
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Attended SOSP '11 (Portugal), FAST '12 (San Jose), Turing Celebration '12 (SF), OSDI '12 (Hollywood), NSDI '14 (Seattle), KDD '16 (SF), NIPS '16 (Barcelona)
Recognitions and Awards
(Highlights)
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Recipient
Class of 1994 Prize – Harvey Mudd Computer Science
2014
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Honorable Mention
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher
2013
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Dean's List
Harvey Mudd College
All possible semesters
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Recipient
Intel Excellence in Computer Science Award
2008, 2009
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Recipient
Naval Research Award
2008
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1st place
Computer Science, Georgia State Science and Engineering Fair
2008
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1st place
Computer Science, Gwinnett County Science and Engineering Fair
2008, 2009
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Recipient
SOSP 2011 Student Grant (Sponsored by Facebook)
2011
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Recipient
FAST 2012 Student Grant
2012
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Recipient
ACM SIGOPS Student Grant for ACM Turing Centenary Celebration
2012
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Recipient
OSDI 2013 Student Grant
2013
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Recipient
NSDI 2014 Student Grant
2014
Other Activities
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Tenor
Seattle Pro Musica, Seattle
August 2014 — October 2015
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Tenor
Sine Nomine Renaissance Choir, Seattle
August 2014 — October 2015
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Tenor
Claremont Concert Choir; Chamber Choir
Fall 2010 — Spring 2014
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Violinist
Claremont Concert Orchestra; Chamber Music Ensemble
Fall 2010
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Treasurer
Sontag Dorm, Harvey Mudd College
Fall 2012 — Spring 2014
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Social Representative
Sontag Dorm, Harvey Mudd College
Fall 2010 — Spring 2011
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Certified Official
USSF Grade 8 Soccer Referee
Fall 2008 — Spring 2010