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Masters of Engineering (MEng)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Computer Science
• Masters Thesis
  • Guarda — A web application firewall for WebAuthn transaction authentication
• GPA 5.0/5.0

Bachelor of Science

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Computer Science and Engineering
• GPA 4.9/5.0

Software Engineer

QuantCo Inc.

• Project: Lead client-facing machine learning product
  • Project interactively displays machine learning predictions to client
  • Collaborate and coordinate with multi-disciplinary team of product, engineering and UI talent
  • Factor in client feedback when developing product
  • Orchestrate containerized backend systems to ensure high availability and correctness of service
  • Test rigorously with various levels of staging environments before pushing to production
• Project: Develop internal feature engineering framework
  • Framework handles feature engineering of pricing and risk-assessment models for two large German car insurers forming 5% of total market share
  • Increased productivity of data scientists using framework with a near 10x performance gain when performing incremental feature computations
  • Profiled existing code to address performance pain points
  • Diagnose, isolate, report and resolve bugs throughout the entire tech stack
  • Open-source contributions to Python packages: Pandas, Numpy, Kartothek
• Project: groupstorm — open-source, hyper-fast and flexible DataFrame group by
  • Implements group by and aggregation operations with benchmarked 479x the speed of `Pandas`
  • Dropped development latency of data scientists from ~30 minutes down to less than a minute
• Project: conda-comply — open-source software license compliance checker
  • Automates error-prone process of asserting software license compliance of company's software products
  • Alleviates need for complicated and cumbersome licensing training for the engineers
  • Improves the company's copyright compliance and legal conformity
• Project: Automate recruiting coding challenge takehome submissions
  • Streamlined engineering recruiting workflow by automating coding challenge submissions
  • Improves the company's security and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance

Machine Learning Engineer

QuantCo Inc.

• Project: Optimize data pipelines of Python machine learning framework
  • Profiled existing code to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks
  • Improved speed of pipelines by 470% in best cast and 115% in worst case
  • Contributed to Python language codebase and Joblib Python library
  • Led active communication to ensure efficient development velocity

Supply Chain Researcher

Singapore — MIT Alliance for Research and Technology

• Project: Design mixed integer programming model to optimize redistribution strategies for dockless bike sharing within Singapore
  • Employed statistical processes and mixed integer programming for optimization to find best redistribution configurations
  • Submitted publication to Transportation Research Board (TRB) journal
  • Accepted and exhibited as a poster presentation at TRB conference
  • Collaborated in a team of three members respective of strengths and abilities

Performance and Capacity Engineer

Facebook Inc.

• Project: Engineer existing profiler to measure additional performance metrics
  • Aggregated database usage metrics from affected services across Facebook
  • Tuned database utilization of production services in order to improve performance with large cost-saving consequences

conda-comply

• Check conda environment dependencies for compliance with permissive, copyleft or other user-defined license sets

groupstorm

• A hyper-fast library in Python to group candidate DataFrame rows against every row in a reference DataFrame according to user-supplied constraints

algopytest

• A framework which hides away all of the complexity and repetitiveness that comes with testing Algorand Smart Contracts

guarda-firewall

• A proxy firewall prototype for RESTful services to easily support WebAuthn two-factor authentication

Computability and Complexity Theory (6.045)

• Teaching Assistant with office hours, recitation and assignment duties
• Co-created entire year's curriculum of homework assignments and exams

Theory of Computation (18.404)

• Teaching Assistant with office hours, recitation and assignment duties

Software Performance Engineering (6.172)

• Curriculum Developer with task to redesign first of four lab assignments
• Lab assignment still in active use

Computation Structures (6.004)

• Lab Assistant with office hours duties

Software Performance Engineering (6.172)

• Teaching Assistant with office hours and assignment duties

Physics II: Electricity and Magnetism (8.02)

• Teaching Assistant with office hours and assignment duties

Global Startup Labs: Russia

• Technical Assistant with teaching, office hours and lab duties