Hosting cost reduction czar (2023-2024)

• Saved VideoAmp $x million/year in Snowflake and AWS spending, through efficiency and waste-mitigation efforts

Next gen software infrastructure builder (2023-2024)

• Built out Bazel-based shared repo and tooling
• Developed Go culture at VideoAmp

Chrome OS Continuous Integration and Testing Platform (2018-2021)

• Led launch of parallel CQ, coordinating with tens of TLs and affecting hundreds of developers, drastically improving code submission times.
• Drove PCQ test plan generation algorithms and rules, which served the critical purpose of keeping down demand for the limited supply of Chrome OS test devices.
• Received 16 peer bonuses and 6 spot bonuses, generally for supporting my teammates and prioritizing important goals.
• Wrote and graded OKRs for the team as TL for several quarters.
• Promoted to senior software engineer (Google SWE level 5).

Drive Intelligence (2016-2018)

• Launched and enhanced Drive's ML-based Quick Access (now "Suggested") feature, using TensorFlow, Servomatic, and various training data from across Drive.
• Served as TL for the Quick Access team; brought new features such as Calendar suggestions, decreased tail latency by over 55%.
• Co-authored Drive Priority design; created system for scoring and merging relevant Drive results.
• Co-authored ACM conference paper about our successes: Improving Recommendation Quality in Google Drive.

Payments Compliance (2014-2016)

• Overhauled and automated offline sanctions-checking process; dropped long-standing manual spreadsheet process and instead created auditable and streamlined tooling.
• Built anti-money laundering pipeline that crunches >100TB of Payments transaction data daily to look for problematic patterns.
• Replaced entire AdWords sanctions-checking system on a short timeline, in response to scheduled turndown of a previously-necessary database.

AudienceDirect

• Built Yieldex's buyside platform which automates the purchasing process for publishers' display ad inventory.
• Created the platform's external APIs, for programmatic purchase of inventory.
• Designed the schema for the platform's MySQL database.

Yieldex Analytics Platform

• Wrote and managed technical integrations with various ad-servers (OAS, OpenX, Google DFP).
• Created simulation models to forecast consumption and availability of clients' ad inventory.
• Proposed and implemented a hugely time-saving, fully automated production deployment process.

Mechanical Engineering - Applied Sustainability

• This was an interdisciplinary program focused on sustainable engineering practices and relevant governmental policy.
• Graduated with a 3.86 cumulative GPA.
• Project: "The future for electric cars from an Ontarian perspective"

Mathematics and Engineering - Computer and Communications focus

• Graduated with honours (first class) and a 3.94 cumulative GPA.
• Final year project: "Localized Eigenface" - developed a customized facial recognition scheme and tested it against Eigenface and Fisherface methods.
• Recipient of 6 merit-based scholarships and prizes.
• Course highlights: Information Theory, Stochastic Processes, Modern Control Theory, Fourier Analysis, Operating Systems, Databases, Computer Graphics, Computer Architecture.