About

Software engineer at Facebook currently focused on building a strong distributed systems skillset.

Education

North Carolina State University ∙ Raleigh, NC ∙ May 2018

  • B.S. Computer Science, math minor. Computer Science GPA 4.0

Experience

Facebook ∙ Software Engineer ∙ Seattle, WA ∙ 2018-present

  • Building internet-scale distributed storage used in Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger.
  • Designed & shipped system for time-bound unsampled detection of blob storage data loss events of any incidence, down to 1-in-1-trillion
  • Contributing to exabyte-scale storage savings and compute efficiency projects
  • Built 0 → 1 VOD ingest debug tooling to help engineers quickly diagnose reliability and quality issues

Facebook ∙ SWE Intern ∙ Seattle, WA

  • 2016: Shipped “Context View” for the Nuclide IDE. nuclide.io/docs/features/context-view
  • 2017: Shipped healthcheck infrastructure for internal CI platform.

Freshspire ∙ Lead Developer ∙ Raleigh, NC Spring 2016

  • While in college, built MVP software for Freshspire, a starting building an online wholesale marketplace for growers and buyers of local and organic food

IBM Watson ∙ SWE Intern ∙ Raleigh, NC Summer 2015

  • Developed and patented novel oncology visualization for IBM Watson Oncology.

Projects

LecturePulse ∙ lecturepulse.com ∙ Raleigh, NC ∙ Spring 2018

  • Built platform to help university lecturers build more personalized and interactive lectures in the face of ever-increasing class sizes
  • Integrated prototype into Chemistry class of >300 undergraduates.

Software Engineering Research ∙ arxiv:1702.07735 ∙ Spring 2017

  • Developed models to predict resolution time of software bug reports with state of the art precision/recall, using decision tree classifiers, pruning, feature selection, and oversampling techniques.
  • First author and primary contributor to paper with Dr. Tim Menzies , in first 4 months of research experience.

OpenScience ∙ openscience.us ∙ Raleigh, NC Spring 2015

  • Developed research data repository site to increase replicability of software engineering research. Acquired over 200 datasets.
  • Overhauled site to increase external dataset submissions from 0 to ~10 per month, saving ~40hrs/month of manual work.

Contact

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