Experience
Experience
2024 - Present
Senior Software Engineer
ByteDance / TikTok
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Global Data Infrastructure and Site Reliability
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US Classic Storage lead - managing 7EiB of TikTok data globally
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Leading project Alpha - a migration project that will save the company $257M+ in cloud costs annually
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Ranking in the top 9% of TikTok oncall personnel - working with 400+ customers to solve critical data-infra issues
2022 - 2024
Software Engineer
Amazon - AWS Elastic Block Store
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Played key roles in new feature launches, including the new C7g(n) EC2 instance
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Developed new cryptographic features that increase performance for AWS customers
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Managed & improved CI/CD infra, increasing successful deployments to the worldwide fleet of 7M servers
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Participated in oncall, managed customer tickets, investigated & remediated critical software defects
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Built new developer tools for increased confidence in new commits, including automated code coverage tools & new code testing features
2020 - 2022
Cyber Security Consultant
Self-Employed
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Built technical cybersecurity playbooks for a private equity firm and its portfolio companies
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Worked with security executives to author a book covering the largest data breaches in history + executive strategy for information security
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Advised a detailed strategy for network, application, cloud, and data security
2019 - 2020
Research Intern
Augmented Design Laboratory
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Worked with Professor Jim Whitehead conducting research for Ford Motors
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Developed a detailed satellite image dataset for image segmentation
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Built optimized clustering model to analyze road infrastructure dataset
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Contributions used in creating testing infrastructure for autonomous vehicles