Work Experience

• Software Development Engineer II, Amazon EMR Serverless (Amazon Web Services)

  Apr, 2021 - Present

  • Led the design, implementation, and release of custom EMR Serverless images, enabling customers to install/configure packages optimized for their workloads and integrate with current CI/CD best practices. +100 customers successfully submitted +5000 jobs within the first two months of launch.

  • Contributed towards launching AWS EMR Serverless, a new AWS EMR offering which enables clients to setup an EMR cluster 75% faster. This is achieved by avoiding the need to setup, maintain, or configure EC2 hosts or EKS clusters.

  • Developed one of EMR Serverless control plane components with >99% availability and >15 TPS at launch that provides nodes to client's distributed application (i.e. Spark and Hive)

  • Improved clients' applications' start-time by >85% by 1/ adding an application configuration to clients that proactively created nodes before application submission and 2/ evaluated various optimization strategies to reduce Docker images pull times by 90%.

  • Designed a multi-tenant service that enables multiple clients to run applications while ensuring network and compute isolation between clients.

  • Led the implementation of metrics and creation of monitoring dashboards in parts of EMR Serverless to improve debugging and proactively identify issues.

• Software Development Engineer, Universal Brand Catalog (Amazon.com)

  Aug, 2017 - Apr, 20213 years 8 months

  • Developed a system that maps over 30 billion products to an Amazon brand database daily to discover products and brands not present in the Amazon Catalog and to determine brands’ selling potentials

  • Maintained a platform (Crater) built on top of AWS Mechanical Turk to allow users to consolidate worker responses manually, increasing accuracy of responses when compared to the default string comparison

  • Developed a Crater feature to allow users to choose which workers gets paid, saving the original costs of paying all workers, regardless of their responses’ quality

  • Developed a Crater feature to retrieve responses before all questions (1000+ per batch) were answered, reducing the wait time from days to minutes for downstream consumers

  • Coordinated the handoff of Crater to another team and documented parity requirements for their effort to consolidate Crater with their own platform to unify functionality across the Selection Monitoring org

• Software Development Intern, Advertising Platform (Amazon.com)

  May, 2016 - Aug, 20163 months

  • Worked on the Ad Products team to create a page for advertisers to preview their ads collectively

  • Maintained site consistency by working with a Sr. UX designer to create the page layout and view

  • Ensured highest usability of the application by seeking feedback from stakeholders from 3 other teams

  • Used Java and React JS to create a dynamic webpage that easily scales to show 100+ ads

  • Deployed the project into production and documented my work for future maintainance

Projects Experience

• jsonresume-renderer

  Jun, 2022 - Present

  Created a Rust binary that takes in a JSON Resume file and a template to render a resume file. Used this library to generate my resume in LaTex.

• mafiaBot

  May, 2019 - Present

  Created a minimal Python bot on Discord so members can randomly generate teams and assigns roles for specific role-playing games (e.g. mafia)

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Education