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University of California, Berkeley

New York University

Software Engineer

* Designed, implemented, operated, and maintained an educational web application used by courses with ~300 students. Three teams are continuing this work to serve 1000s of students/semester
* Conducted research that both improved student learning by 167% and meaningfully contributed to the understanding of designing effective interactive assessments in Computer Science
* Presented two first-author papers at the top Human-Computer Interaction conference
* Mentored 11 undergraduates and 1 Master’s student in research projects, leading to 6 presentations. Onboarded students to existing projects, set milestones, and balanced scope with deadlines.
* Co-led ACELab, a multidisciplinary cross-team group focused on computing and education to bridge research and course improvements at and beyond UC Berkeley
* Led workshops and coordinated speakers as Communications Chair for Bias Busters, an organization combatting implicit bias in the EECS department
* Co-taught “CS160: User Interface Design and Development” to 120 upper-division CS students. Responsibilities included managing 9 TAs, designing course policies, and creating assessment content.
Selected research contributions include:
* Created a new exercise for college-level introductory CS classrooms that students preferred. The exercise also makes it easy for instructors to assign problems that teach crucial programming patterns
* Created a Jupyter notebook extension to allow Data Scientists to organize their notebooks to more accurately reflect their process, improving efficiency and communication. All participants were eager to use this tool in their own work at the conclusion of the study.

PHD Student

* Course instructor for “CS160: User Interface Design and Development” to 120 upper-division CS students. Responsibilities included managing 9 TAs, designing course policies, and creating assessment content.

Course Instructor

* Designed, prototyped, and evaluated a Jupyter notebook extension to allow Data Scientists to organize their notebooks to more accurately reflect their process, improving efficiency and communication

Research Intern (VIDA group)

* Technical Lead, Leader of LGBTQ ERG
* Ideated, tested, and implemented impactful levers to improve user engagement, leading to ~2% compounded YoY growth to the global business
* Designed and implemented hundreds of A/B tests
* Maintained and meaningfully extended complex email tooling leveraged by other product teams
* Refactored email tooling to enable goalie system (vs. on-call), reducing disruptions to the team
* Designed and implemented a data pipeline to select promotional content for automated promotional emails
* Designed and implemented internal glossary tool used by hundreds to increase knowledge sharing within Airbnb
* Led 3-week onboarding program for a group of new software engineers
* Partnered with People Team to score 100% on HRC’s CEI measuring LGBTQ-related company benefits 1st and 2nd time
* Designed and led interview workshop for underrepresented groups, contributed to code interview question bank

Senior Software Engineer

* Led DDoS defense development and improvement to increase effectiveness and reduce latency.
* Set and met DDoS defense quarterly team goals.
* Participated in on-call rotation for several security-related services, including DDoS defense.
engEDU Python instructor to fellow Googlers.

Software Engineer - Site Reliability Engineer (Production Security)

* Designed a dashboard to visualize deployment and operational status of network devices in Google data centers

Software Engineering Intern (Platform Networking Tools)

* Worked on a project to speed up protein folding simulations by refactoring existing Matlab code into Q in a more easily parallelizable structure

Collegiate Research Scholar

* Updated USARSim (Unified System for Automation and Robot Simulation) by recreating many components and features in newer 3d simulation software

Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow

* Created various tools for simulation environments and to help test the accuracy of simulation.
* Built models and determined parameters for several robots to be simulated realistically.
* Researched several simulation environments.

Virtual Designer

* Aided research and data analysis for a paper to find a correlation between satellite damage and space weather