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LyftCompany Size
2500+
Amount Raised
$4.9B
Lyft was founded in 2012 by Logan Green and John Zimmer to improve people’s lives with the world’s best transportation, and is available to approximately 95 percent of the United States population as well as select cities in Canada. Lyft is committed to effecting positive change for our cities by offsetting carbon emissions from all rides, and by promoting transportation equity through shared rides, bikeshare systems, electric scooters, and public transit partnerships.
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Notable Investors
Alibaba Group, Tencent, Rakuten, Andreessen Horowitz, Autotech Ventures
GreenTech
Ride Sharing
Transportation
Sharing Economy
Location Based Services
Last Mile Transportation
Experience
Lyft
Jun 2022 - Present
Senior Software Engineer
Feb 2025 - Present
• 5 mosSoftware Engineer 2
Jun 2022 - Feb 2025
• 2 yrs 9 mosI work on the driver earnings team. I led the expansion of upfront pay to more regions across the US so that drivers could see what they would get paid before accepting the ride. I led the insurance cost implementation for the earnings commitment project which guarantees that drivers will get a certain percentage of passenger pay after fees like insurance. I have worked with scientists to execute experiments related to driver pay to fine tune the payment policy when there are ride changes so that drivers are paid fairly even when unexpected traffic occurs. I led the implementation of a 5% bonus for Preferred Drivers in pilot regions. I used Python, Golang, and AWS.
Microsoft
Jun 2016 - Jun 2022
Software Engineer 2
Dec 2020 - Jun 2022
• 1 yr 7 mos· I worked on the Azure Communication Services team in phone number management and SMS. I launched toll free numbers to general availability. I used .NET, Azure Cosmos DB, and Azure Queues to allow users to reliably search and acquire phone numbers.
· I successfully launched short codes to public preview, which involved coordinating across numerous teams both in and out of Microsoft. I designed it to build on top of the existing number management system while adding functionality to automate filling out a 20-field short code request form.
Software Engineer
Aug 2018 - Dec 2020
• 2 yrs 5 mos· I worked on Mixer in Gaming. I used PlayFab and Azure EventHub to build the leaderboards system for sparks and embers (virtual currency). I worked with the PlayFab team to design a new leaderboard backend system that would scale for thousands of concurrent leaderboards. I also created a dashboard view for the leaderboards using TypeScript with React.
· I also worked on Mixer partner channel subscriptions including subscription gifting and the subscriptions v2 platform. This enabled subscription purchase on web, console, and mobile using Microsoft Store, Stripe, and PayPal. For the backend, I used Azure Cosmos DB, EventHub, and ServiceBus Queues. For the frontend, I used TypeScript with both React and Angular.
Software Engineering Intern
Jun 2017 - Sep 2017
• 4 mosI continued working on Project Orleans. My main goal for the summer was to add the ability to run JavaScript applications on Orleans by embedding a JavaScript engine into the existing C# code. This will enable JavaScript developers to use the highly scalable distributed systems capabilities of Orleans without having to learn C#.
Software Engineering Intern
Jun 2016 - Sep 2016
• 4 mosI worked on an open source framework for distributed systems (Project Orleans) used by many groups both inside and outside of Microsoft. My main goal for the summer was to simplify Azure deployment by adding error checking functions and improving the documentation and samples on GitHub. I worked with C#, Visual Studio, GitHub, and Microsoft Azure
Intern
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Jun 2015 - Aug 2015
• 3 mos· Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF)
· I automated an archiving process for mid-infrared images of Jupiter’s atmosphere.
· I worked with XML, Python, and Interactive Data Language (IDL).
Education
- 2014 - 2018CaltechBachelor's degree, Computer Science