resume

B.A.

Yale University

Linguistics - Computational

• HackYale (Lead Instructor) Wrote the curriculum for a natural language processing course taught to dozens of college/MBA students.

Consultant

Consulting and Professional Development

• Contributed to a language learning patent using ML/AI and natural language processing to power a grammar search engine.
• Consulted a social networking startup on the technical feasibility, timeline, and direction of their MVP.
• Expanded my product management skillset through personal projects and coursework.

Software Engineer - Full Stack

Opendoor

Opendoor uses machine learning methods to buy and sell tens of thousands of homes a year.

• Implemented machine learning models into valuation tools, enabling the sale of 40,000 homes and the acquisition of 35,000 in 2022.
• Led end-to-end product development for an image sourcing feature, reducing costs by $600,000 annually.
• Developed applications supporting internal operators in assessing target home conditions and efficiently managing inventories.

Tech Lead - Search Products

Podium

Podium is a YC Continuity and Google Ventures-backed startup that manages interactions for over 100k local businesses.

• Oversaw agile stand-ups for a team of three back end software engineers, fostering collaboration and achieving project milestones.
• Provided strategic guidance to over a dozen teams on optimal implementation strategies for their search products.
• Pioneered the prototyping of OpenAI's GPT-3 for automated customer text interactions during the closed beta.
• Facilitated cross-team collaboration to ensure compliance with HIPAA security and privacy regulations.

CTO

Kilter

Kilter is an ultra-searchable car shopping platform that helps people find exactly what they want — down to the smallest detail.

• Successfully raised $600,000 during a pre-seed round of funding.
• Drove the technical vision for an MVP for car search down to the sticker level.

Software Engineer - Product

Podium

Podium is a YC Continuity and Google Ventures-backed startup that manages interactions for over 100k local businesses.

• Led the establishment of a dashboard design system and React library, driving cohesion across six product teams.
• Executed virtual and on-site customer research, coupled with impactful A/B testing, to shape in-app reporting strategies.
• Maintained a back-end reporting pipeline for customer data that supported hundreds of millions of records.
• Rebuilt Elasticsearch indices for a search product, resulting in a 75% reduction in index size and improved query times.