Work

A career spanning research, large-scale consumer platforms, founding, and venture building. Each chapter built on the last.

Head of Discover and Stories Engineering

Led engineering for Snapchat Discover & Stories, building personalization to 200M+ daily viewers with an 80+ person org.

Technical Lead

Led the design and launch of Ads Reach solutions, built a team of 7 engineers, reduced service latency to sub-10ms.

Principal Software Engineer

Re-architected ads systems, managed large-scale infrastructure migrations, and served as primary on-call and release manager.

Founder & CEO

Founded an AI-native product studio, raised from top investors, built a 12-person team, and launched 10+ AI consumer products.

Research Engineer / NLP Research Staff

Built real-time search systems, geographic summarization, and biomedical data integration. TREC 2011 Best System award.

Research Intern

Research on document retrieval, learning to rank, and early exposure to large-scale ML research methodology.