Stanford University

Sacred Heart Schools, Atherton

Software @ Increase

Increase is a leading Banking as a Service provider.

https://increase.com

Increase

Software

I started Onu as the simplest way for parents, family and friends to collectively invest in a child’s financial future.  It didn't work out, but I'm really proud of what we built, and I learned a ton along the way. I built out all the tech as my cofounders and I turned our idea into a company. Plus: customer service, operations, compliance, marketing, and every other possible hat you can imagine.

https://www.giveonu.com/

CTO & Cofounder

Credit Karma acquired my prior employer. I worked on the Credit Karma's savings and checking accounts, two of the fastest growing financial products in the US.

I worked primarily on delivering Haven's budgeting and spend tracking technology to Credit Karma's 100 million members. In addition, I contributed significantly to CK's on anti-fraud, checking onboarding, and scaling efforts.

Credit Karma

Senior Software Engineer

Haven is a one-stop-shop for your personal finances. I was the second engineering hire at Haven and I worked on everything backend (and a little bit of frontend, too!).

In addition to all the engineering work, I passed the Series 65 exam and served as an investment advisor representative, advising our customers on how to best plan for their financial future. I take the learnings from my conversations with our customers and integrate the financial advice into our products.

In December 2019, Credit Karma purchased Haven Money to kickstart its Savings and Checking offerings to its 100 million members.

Haven Money

Software Engineer

I worked on Pinterest's Ads Targeting team. My team built and optimized our four retargeting products, allowing advertisers to reach high value customers in Pinterest's home feed. By the end of my time at Pinterest, I was the primary point of contact for CRM and offsite retargeting. I also had extensive impact on the onsite retargeting and "actalike" machine-learning based retargeting.

In addition to my work on retargeting, I spent several months on loan to the ads infra and ads data teams, where I worked on re-engineering the service that predicts clickthrough rates for the ads in our inventory.

Technologies: Python, C++, Java, Go, Hadoop, HBase, RocksDB, S3, git

Pinterest

I was a summer engineering intern on the Datagram team within Instagram. We were responsible for the machine learning and artificial intelligence that powers the 'suggested users' and 'suggested photos' features of the Instagram app. I worked on the event logging framework we used to collect information from users so that we could create a more enjoyable experience moving forward.

Technologies: C++, Java, HTML/CSS/JS/PHP, React, Thrift, mercurial, MySQL
See https://github.com/facebook/fbthrift for my open-source contributions from the summer to the FB Thrift repository.

Facebook

Instagram Software Engineering Intern

I was a summer engineering "pintern" on the Pins team. We were responsible for the core features of the Pinterest user experience. I worked on two infrastructure projects over my three-month internship. As part of Pinterest's service-oriented-architecture, I wrote a Node.JS service for Pinterest Messages and worked on a team that wrote a Java service for push notifications.

Technologies: Java 8, Python, Node.JS, WebSockets, Redis, git, Puppet, and MySQL.
https://about.pinterest.com/en/messages

Software Engineering Intern

After finishing my internship at IFTTT, I was hired on as a part-time contractor. I worked remotely while still at Stanford, working on IFTTT's backend web platform.

Technologies: Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Chef, Postgres, Unix, and git.

IFTTT

Contractor

I worked as one of IFTTT's two interns in Summer 2013. I worked on both IFTTT's frontend webapp in addition to the backend platform.

Technologies: Ruby on Rails, HTML/CSS/JS, Node.js, Unix, git.

IFTTTern

Designed, implemented, and published an iOS app to manage complicated high school block schedules. Pilot program running at one high school, planning to expand to more schools Autumn 2013. Used Objective-C to interface between server and iPhones/iPads.

KMO, Inc.

Software Developer

Worked in a small team to develop a Java program that autonomously piloted multiple miniature helicopters to simulate national airspace protocols for an FAA-sponsored research project.

Sloane Sturzenegger