Work
Software Engineer @ Amazon Music
Nov 2024 to Present
- Led mobile upsell strategy for India's upcoming Unlimited tier, designing 12+ customer experiences amid evolving requirements. Mentored 2 junior engineers to deliver features through structured guidance and actionable work items.
- Drove end-to-end delivery of ML-powered ad break personalization system, achieving 2% boost in ad revenue without harming customer engagement metrics.
- Architected and launched Sponsored Sessions experiments, enabling advertisers to sponsor 30 minutes of ad-free listening. Established framework for new premium ad product offering.
- Built org's first cloud knowledge base with semantic search across repositories and internal documentation, accelerating engineer onboarding and reducing documentation discovery time.
Software Engineer @ Amazon Ads
Sept 2023 to Nov 2024
- Led migration of 60k+ TPS ad traffic across multiple ad products for FireTV, coordinating load testing, deployments, and partner communications, unlocking business-critical features including deals, auctions, and compliance capabilities.
- Spearheaded creation of dedicated ad serving infrastructure to meet strict latency requirements, reducing ad timeouts by 82% and enabling 15 million additional ads served monthly.
- Designed and implemented compliance orchestration system integrating multiple privacy services for EU DMA and child-profile filtering regulations, establishing monitoring dashboards and extensible architecture for evolving regulatory requirements.
- Overhauled integration test suite to support JSON-based test cases and streamlined workflows, reducing E2E test setup time from hours to minutes and accelerating development velocity across 4 publisher teams.
Software Engineering Intern @ Amazon Ads
Summer 2022
- Led a cost minimization project for a cache that serves 30 million requests-per-hour for numerous types of Amazon devices.
- Designed and implemented major infrastructure and software overhauls that reduced the cache cost by 78%, projecting to save the org around $1 million per year.
- Overhauled the cache's codebase to a federated style architecture to provide seamless interoperability between various device types.
Software Engineering Intern @ Amazon Ads
Summer 2021
- Created a web application for owners to more effectively interact with a configuration database containing several tables.
- Designed an intuitive layout that lead to a much simpler and less technically demanding workflow for software engineers and project managers.
- Implemented practical features such as type-checking, version history, and access control to limit bugs and keep track of changes.
Undergraduate Researcher @ VCLA UCLA
Oct 2019 — Jun 2021
- Developed optimal plans, in real time, for virtual agents to collaborate and cook meals together in 3-D photo realistic kitchens.
- Generated dynamic scene graphs out of complex 3-D environments, allowing AI agents to more easily infer about and make plans in their environment.
Information Security Intern @ Lumentum
Summer 2020
- Created a web dashboard providing the Information Security team real time alerting of security events and trends.
- Improved the workflow for security admins to check system health by centralizing data from numerous sources onto clear graphs on a single page.
Technologies
Backend
Java (Spring)
TypeScript and JavaScript (Node.js)
Python (Django and Flask)
Frontend
iOS (Swift & Objective-C)
Android (Java & Kotlin)
React
Next.js
CSS
HTML
Databases
Redis (AWS)
DynamoDB (AWS)
S3 (AWS)
SQL
MongoDB
Research
PyTorch
NumPy
TensorFlow
UE4 & C++
Education
B.S. Computer Science @ UCLA
2018 - 2022
Relevant Electives:
Aritificial Intelligence
Computer Graphics
Computer Animation
Data Science
Database Systems
Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing
Reinforcement Learning