Experienced software engineer specializing in full-stack and mobile development, with experience in large data processing, machine learning, LLMs, and deploying applications at scale.
Experience
Founder & CTO of Aurum Systems, a technology startup dedicated to building the next-generation of interaction and decision making for autonomous systems. Aurum’s mission is to make every UAV operator their own intelligence team, on-edge and in the field.
Optimized and maintained full-stack applications and data pipelines within YouTube's data warehouse, managing substantial data loads. Spearheaded a holistic redesign of the frontend interface for a critical internal tool, benefiting thousands of users. Harmonized internal toolsets and orchestrated the seamless migration of a full-stack application to dedicated infrastructure through collaboration with cross-functional teams. Helped integrate generative AI into YouTube's data infrastructure, enabling the interpretation of business queries in plain English with real-time data insights.
Designed, tested, and implemented SEO related features and services using Java, PHP, React, GraphQL, Redux, and NodeJS. Lead numerous projects including one to increase SERP metrics that resulted in a large increase in annual revenue. Additionally worked on projects to improve performance via SQL optimizations, strategic caching, and lazy loading components and data.
Projects
Designed and developed a mobile app that allows for easy creation and sharing of custom workouts. Utilized React Native and Expo for the mobile app, a Java Spring Boot backend, and a React SPA website, all hosted in the cloud (Heroku and Digital Ocean).
Worked on a cross disciplinary team to develop a ROS based system on top of a 1/10th scale RC car equipped with encoders, imu, stereo vision, and lidar to allow others to test autonomous car concepts such as Semantic SLAM and computer vision.