my work
I'm still early in my career, but striving to build great products that people love and bring something positive into the world. My goal in life is to stay curious and learn a lot along the way. Here's a summary of my professional work experiences so far.
Key
Product, Engineering, & Growth Intern
August 2023 - Present
I joined Key as employee #1 to lead its engineering organization and product development as we set out to build the de facto product for career development, networking, and building impactful professional communities.
Some things I've done at Key:
- Grew the company's product user base from 0 to 6.5k
- Hired and managed a team of 13 full-time engineers & 2 designers spanning 3 distinct product categories
- Created and managed cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, deployment logging, and engineering on-call systems
- Conducted user interviews, orchestrated product feedback rounds, and ran weekly sprints/release cycles
- Hosted in-person and virtual events (like this fireside chat with David Lieb) to bring together the 30k+ member Xoogler community.
In case you were curious, I turned down a Google offer to work @ Key and learn about startups instead. It was once of the best decisions of my life. I would highly encourage anyone who's remotely interested in startups to take the jump and get out of your comfort zone. You won't regret it, and life is too short to wonder "what if?".
Netflix
Software Engineering Intern
Summer 2023
I had the pleasure of spending a summer working alongside the folks of Netflix's Video & Image Encoding and Video Codecs & Quality Teams, helping them migrate from the company's monolithic legacy streaming & encoding pipeline (dubbed 'Reloaded') to a new microservice architecture built on Cosmos, a proprietary media-centric distributed computing platform.
Specifically, I built an end-to-end microservice to ensure that this new encoding pipeline honored certain points of interest in the final bitstreams that reach devices in users' homes and hands. Ever seen the "Skip Intro?" or "Skip Credits?" buttons that pop up on the screen when you're binging your favorite shows (mine are Suits, Breaking Bad, & the Flash)? Those are the kinds of POI's I was working with.
I give huge props 👏 to the entire Encoding Technologies org @ Netflix for accomplishing this migration. It's no small feat, and the fact that not a single user would suspect this happened says all you need to know. Check out the links below to learn more ⬇️
Cisco
Software Engineering Intern
Summer 2022
Cisco powers much of the networking, cloud, and cybersecurity infrastructure and software that keeps us connected to the internet 24/7. I got to work on the Polaris/IOS-XE team, which maintains the operating system that runs on majority of Cisco's hardware product lines (routers, switches, links, etc.).
While I'll concede networking doesn't sound that cool, I got to work with some pretty cool tech 😎. Specifically, I used Natural Language Processing & Machine Learning methods to build an internal developer tool that made understanding device logs easier. Since these devices process millions of requests every second, their logging files can get very dense, so I trained a classification model to parse these logs in their entirety and summarize the observed behavior for other engineers to use during testing/debugging.
Fun fact, Cisco has been ranked the #️⃣1️⃣ place to work in the U.S. for many years running! It was a pretty cool first job :)