University of Chicago

The University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Hunter College

Stanford University

Stuyvesant High School

Software Engineer @ Google  -  Ex-Spotify / Etsy / Bloomberg / Foursquare  -  MS in CS & MBA @ UChicago  -  Valedictorian & Former CS Adjunct Lecturer @ Hunter College

Monarch Money

Principal Software Engineer

• Spearheaded design and execution of C++ / Python validation threshold auto-tuning system for behavior-tracking metrics across all Ads ML models, in collaboration with 9 cross-functional modeling teams, leading to >$4.5M in annual prevented outage impact.

• Streamlined ML model lineage tracking system by surfacing upstream feature relationships and user data sources in a single click (vs. 15-30 minutes before), for faster model development exploration and DMA / privacy policy conformance research across Ads.

• Mentored two interns over two summers, resulting in (1) the additional monthly removal of >100K more compute units used by abandoned ML models and (2) support for SQL validation metrics auto-tuning comprising >30% of metrics by certain teams.

• Led SWE on-campus recruiting presentations and panels for hundreds of students at UChicago, Montclair, and Hunter College.

Google

Senior Software Engineer

• Scaffolded the Java / PostgreSQL backend for an alpha AdTech product aimed at increasing advertisement engagement metrics through personalized in-app experiences over external microsites, ultimately garnering nearly $2.2M in revenue over six months.

• Championed codebase health and adherence to evolving Spotify standards through a partial migration from Java to Kotlin on the Android app, ensuring long-term maintainability, improved scalability, and increased productivity for team developers.

Spotify

• Spearheaded the release of a revamped internal design guide (with code snippets) used by hundreds of engineers / designers and modernized the in-house React component library, as part of the Design Systems team—improving visual consistency and usage.

• Conducted A/B experiment testing on website global header improvements (written in JavaScript) for Etsy’s 60M buyers and 3.1M sellers, resulting in marginally positive or net-zero engagement metric changes over time and a clearer user interface / experience.

Etsy

Software Engineer Intern

• Taught 120+ undergraduate students and managed four TAs over four semesters in the senior-level Capstone course (CSCI 499) and Software Analysis & Design II (CSCI 235), covering project building, data structures, algorithms, C++, and technical interviews.

• Enhanced students’ industry preparedness by implementing mandatory 100% adoption of git / GitHub, driving 20% extracurricular participation in hackathons / tech community activities, and promoting best practices through clean code and complexity analysis.

CS Adjunct Lecturer

• Conceptualized and launched Bloomberg Work Wise—a career advancement-focused React / Node.js web application with an audience of 500K users—as lead developer on Bloomberg Media’s human-centered research and prototyping team, BHIVE.

• Led a team of three Senior Software Engineers in building the tablet redesign of our React Native mobile news application’s home feed, resulting in a 10% increase in sessions per tablet user and a 2-3x speed increase in developing article collections.

• Interviewed hundreds of candidates for engineering roles as an on-site / on-campus technical interviewer and campus fair recruiter at Stanford, Brown, Carnegie Mellon, Rutgers, University of Toronto, Queens College, and City College of New York.

• Oversaw three interns over three summers on multi-million audience OTT projects relating to Amazon Alexa and Chromecast.

Bloomberg LP

Software Engineer

• Enhanced venue saving capabilities in the Foursquare mobile iOS application for local discovery, implemented in Objective-C, allowing 50M users to better curate personalized lists for exploration and reference across 100M worldwide venues.

• Integrated native social sharing dialogs extensibly across 100% of major share points, replacing a bespoke and limited interface with one adaptable to future cross-application use cases and cohesive with the iOS design identity.

Foursquare

• Led development of PathOGion, an innovative MedTech iOS application written in Objective-C that—years prior to COVID-19—anonymously contact-traces and notifies users (through location history cross-referencing) of contagious disease contraction risk.

• Co-published paper for Spatial Unconference’s 2015 Spatial Information for Human Health symposium at UC Santa Barbara.

iOS Developer/Researcher

• Educated undergraduate students in Computer Science concepts and programming techniques in conjunction with the professor of the class, providing personalized attention when necessary.

Teaching Assistant/Tutor

• Promoted respect, well-being, and community amongst residents at the dormitory by organizing engaging group events, encouraging interpersonal resident relationships, and actively leading on the floor.

Simon Ayzman, MBA