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Summary

Software engineer with a particular interest in large-scale infrastructure and distributed systems, working on development through to production.

Work Experience

  • San Francisco, CA
    Software Engineer\

  • Designed key aspects of the backing storage engine that enables iCloud to scale to hundreds of millions of users each month.

  • Architected the new multi-tenant online compaction system which provides higher throughput guarantees and reliability by distributing workloads over backend resources evenly.

  • Engineered a proactive solution to data loss prevention. Led to the discovery of several undiscovered, subtle bugs in the underlying frameworks and data store.

  • Vastly reduced database load by introducing a job framework that allows numerous scheduled jobs share the same pooled resources concurrently.

  • Languages / tools used: Scala, Java, Cassandra, MapReduce Frameworks.

  • San Francisco, CA
    Software Engineer Intern\

  • Implemented network performance increases in Apache Spark that reduced traffic by over 90%.

  • Integrated Apache Avro as a first-class citizen into Spark core for use in RDDs.

  • Languages / tools used: Scala, Java, Apache Spark.

  • New York, NY
    SRE Engineering Practicum Intern\

  • Implemented load testing infrastructure for newly released software, allowing for early detection of bugs and performance defects.

  • Reduced request latency for back-end monitoring services by 70%.

  • Languages / tools used: Java, Python Protocol Buffers, Google data stores.

  • Seattle, WA
    Software Developer Engineer Intern\

  • Overhauled internal search capabilities for the Enterprise Data Warehouse team, allowing for near real-time searching for financial datasets and results.

  • Designed the new search system to be fault tolerant to preserve data integrity.

  • Languages / tools used: Java, various AWS products, including Cloud-Search and SNS.

Education

  • Rochester, NY
    Bachelors of Science in Computer Science\

Graduated Cum Laude

Skills & Certifications

Scala, Java, Python

C, Go, Rust

Git, Spark, Avro, Gradle, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, Protocol Buffers, Thrift, OpenJDK JMH

Developed a solution to allow for Spark to efficiently read / write Apache Avro data formats. Worked on features in the Spark SQL engine.

Self-Directed Projects Include

Raft Key-Value Store

  • Distributed key-value store that provides linearizability guarentees for all type of operations.

  • Out of the box support for leader election, transparent handling of failing nodes, and correctness under network partition.

CRDT Distributed Tally Service

  • Distributed backend counting service that is capable of withstanding large amounts of concurrent requests.

  • Uses G-Counters as the backing asynchronous replication model.

  • Utilizes a combination of lightweight threads for the request handling, Zookeeper for cluster state, and Thrift as the shared communication protocol.