Software Engineer
2016 - 2017Google- Led development of the Google Translate web app (translate.google.com - desktop and mobile).
- Designed, implemented, tested and launched new user-visible features in C++ and Java.
- Improved app reliability and performance: fewer crashes, faster load times.
- Increased code health and simplified app architecture.
- Mentored junior members of the team through design and code reviews.
Technologies: Templates, UI, C++, Python, JavaScriptSoftware Engineer
2013 - 2015Google- Used C++ and Python to serve promotional content on high-traffic properties like the Google homepage.
- Created Python/Django tools that enabled marketing specialists to create and target promo campaigns.
- Used Java and C++ to help migrate Google's web server for Search to a better templating system.
- Revamped the C++ authentication and authorization system of MyMaps and other Geo products.
- Used Java and Flume to run large offline processing jobs on Geo ACLs and other data.
Technologies: Java, C++, Django, PythonBack-end engineer
2012 - 2013UberVU- Wrote Python features and tests for social media marketing application.
- Gave feedback to coworkers through GitHub code reviews.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), AWS, GitHub, PythonSoftware Engineering Intern
2011 - 2011Facebook- Added and improved various Site Integrity (security) features in C++ and PHP.
- Wrote framework for detecting spikes of unusual activity on Facebook in C++.
- Improved Facebook's Captcha server in C++.
- Used proprietary Ruby framework to write integration tests.
Technologies: Ruby, PHP, C++Software Engineering Intern
2010 - 2010Facebook- Created and improved new Facebook ad formats (video ads, ads with polls, etc).
- Analyzed Facebook ads data using Apache Hive.
Technologies: Apache Hive, PHPSoftware Development Engineer in Test
2007 - 2007Microsoft- Wrote C# tools for testing Speech Recognition engines corresponding to various natural languages.
- Packaged and distributed newly created tools to other Microsoft employees.
Technologies: Visual Studio, C#