Skills

• Full-stack software engineer and tech lead, passionate about applied AI for delivering great products
• AI-native product engineering: building and shipping LLM-powered systems (agents, retrieval, eval pipelines, feedback loops) with focus on latency, quality, and production integration
• Languages: C++, Python, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, SQL, Java, Go
• Frameworks/Tools: React, Django, GPT/Claude, OpenClaw, Vercel

Experience

• Applied AI (Burlingame, CA)
  • Improving frontier models in collaboration with Meta Superintelligence Labs in this early-stage org
• Reality Labs, AI Knowledge (Burlingame, CA)
  • Built and productionized low-latency, multimodal retrieval systems (embeddings, semantic, OCR) powering real-time multimodal AI experiences such as landmark/storefront recognition across Meta’s ecosystem
  • Led 0→1 development of a text→image retrieval system (ingestion, indexing, ranking, serving), now powering inline images in LLM-based AI responses across Ray-Ban Meta and Meta AI
  • Improved retrieval precision/recall from ~30% to ~90% via human+AI evaluation loops and model tuning; reduced latency from seconds to hundreds of ms through parallelization and early stopping
• Instagram Growth Acquisition (Menlo Park, CA)
  • Tech lead for multiple 0→1 growth products (web embeds, QR Codes (nametag), profile/link sharing)
  • Owned product/technical direction across teams of 3–5 engineers; executed end-to-end to drive +15M MAU annually

• Trust and Safety: User Knowledge (San Francisco, CA)
  • Labeled news data with NLP to save thousands of hours of manual ops work on background checks

• Data Infrastructure and Analysis (Mountain View, CA)
  • Developed automation tools for Evenflow, the distributed system for AdWords log aggregation
• DoubleClick Bid Manager (New York, NY)
  • Used millions of Google Maps business chains to grow ad campaign geotargeting coverage by 500%

Education

• Honors B.Sc., with high distinction (GPA: 3.87)
• Double majors in computer science and statistics; with a specialist focus in AI

Miscellany

• I have a competitive programming background: USACO (Gold Division), Canadian Computing Olympiad (Bronze Medalist), ACM ICPC
• Problem setter for Meta Hacker Cup since 2020, and previously for Google Code Jam