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Outstandem
Outstandem is migrating from Django to Node.js better support real time features.
As part of the port, our stack will include Mongo.db and Firebase for data, Backbone on the front end, Python for heavy lifting and some charting library. Likely d3.
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Lead Developer - Iron
Iron is a concurrency focused application framework written in Rust. It provides a rich, flexible, and safe framework on which to build extremely fast scalable servers for real web applications. It is the first framework of its kind in Rust and has seen enormous popularity among users of the language.
I am the lead developer and maintainer of Iron, and have designed and executed the middleware system, error system, request and response representations. I've also led the community that has arisen around Iron, managing contributors, reviewing pull requests, and opening and closing issues.
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MedHawk
Medhawk is an app for sharing medical side effects with pharmaceutical companies to empower patients to take charge of the system.
- Led four engineer team as project manager building a self contained application including a RESTful API backend utilizing Express and Mongo with a front end Ionic iPhone app.
- Met all of client expectations on time and on budget. Project delivered iTunes App Store ready and built extensibly for future developer enhancements.
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LectureBreak.org
Student textbook marketplace
Co-founded a textbook marketplace platform for students at UC Riverside, addressing the problem of expensive textbook costs in higher education.
Experience
Staff Software Engineer, GenAI
EtsyDec 2024 — Aug 2026 · San Francisco, CA
Trained transformer models on LLM-generated labels to build efficient distilled models for classification. Led development of LLM pipeline for listing attributes and embeddings powering K-means recommendation algorithms. Built shared GenAI infrastructure including LLM API gateway, agent observability, and evaluation systems.
Applied AI Engineer
ViziblyAug 2023 — Aug 2024 · San Francisco Bay Area
Built full-stack RAG applications using Django, PostgreSQL, and pg-vector on EC2 with open-source and proprietary LLMs. Evaluated LangChain, LlamaIndex, and Instructor frameworks, then built a proprietary RAG pipeline with function calling. Developed automated evaluation tools to compare model performance across different prompt engineering and context templating approaches.
Software Engineer
FacebookMar 2020 — Nov 2022 · Menlo Park, CA
Created, trained, and deployed ML models into user-facing tests on the Facebook app affecting 2B+ users. Trained models using PyTorch and open-source libraries (XGBoost, CatBoost) and compared against proprietary gradient-boosted decision tree implementations. Led migration of internal models to open-source XGBoost. Led feature engineering initiative to build new features, clean data, adopt embeddings, and host on company feature store.
Senior Software Engineer
EtsyDec 2017 — Mar 2020 · San Francisco Bay Area
Built Multi-Armed Bandit solution using Reinforcement Learning to power Etsy homepage and recommendations. Built product features and visual changes to Search and Homepage with A/B testing that added $18M in incremental revenue. Led initiative to build infinite scrolling explore feed with curated recommendations targeted towards key demographics.
Education
University of California, Riverside
Bachelors of Science in Business Administration
Sep 2006 — Jun 2010
Activities and societies: ASUCR Finance Committee, Ski & Snowboard Club
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Recommender SystemsJavaScriptHTML 5Backbone.jsCSSNode.jsSoftware DevelopmentData AnalysisAnalysisOAuthd3.jsAnalyticsMongoDBFinancial ModelingIonicLeadership