Stanford University

Yale University

Software Engineer at Google

Google DeepMind

Senior Software Engineer

- Tech Lead for soon-to-be-released personalization project. Designed and implemented a client-server protocol, SQLite database, client library, and collaborated cross-functionally to integrate them with the Google iOS app. Efforts increased iOS app visits by 0.17% and users who interact with the Discover feed by 0.57% (2.05% among signed-out users).
- Designed and implemented server to proxy sensitive data access for integration tests of user modelling infrastructure. Removed sensitive data access from 126 engineers and drastically improved the integration test workflow user experience via automation.
- Designed, implemented, analyzed, and launched a size reduction of critical user models by 67% by overhauling infrastructure to use an optimized data structure representation.
- Owner of an internal service for serving user models. Scaled, serviced, and maintained the server, collaborated with 30+ clients, debugged production outages, instituted monitoring and alerting, and more. Efforts allowed traffic to grow over 1300% (at Google-scale).
- Top 500 code contributor to Google code base between June 2020 and June 2021.
- Top 150 (99th percentile) tech debt reducer (est. 2100+ hours) across Google in 2021

Google

- Tutored more than 50 students for over 450 hours with a 5-star average lesson rating (over 200 reviews).
- Top 92nd percentile tutor on the platform in 2019.
- Instructed students in topics that include: advanced algorithms, parallel programming, data structures, and systems programming.

Self-employed

Independent Tutor

- Held weekly office hours and conducted grading for Algorithms (~150 students).
- Assisted students in formulating proofs of algorithms involving: matching, search, divide-and-conquer, and dynamic programming.
- Achieved regular attendance of 20+ students per session.

Undergraduate Learning Assistant

- Held weekly office hours for Parallel Programming Techniques (22 students).
- Provided debugging support on OpenMP, MPI, and CUDA assignments.
- Gave information about Slurm and the operation of high-performance computing clusters.
- Monitored and contributed to an online Q&A forum with 100% response rate and 26-minute average response latency.

- Designed and implemented the Alexa feature: "what are my deals on [X]?".
- Implemented a way to route requests around legacy code to reduce 99th percentile latency for “what are my deals” queries by over 50%.

Amazon

Software Developer Intern

- Held and managed weekly office hours for Introduction to Computer Engineering (41 students), regularly assisting 10+ individually per week to high levels of reported satisfaction.

- Advised prospective college students from countries such as New Zealand, Thailand, and Singapore.
- Assisted students to brainstorm and revise their application essays, providing extensive edits and feedback.
- Prepared students for college application interviews through personal advisory sessions and mock-interviews.
- Selected as a peer reviewer to revise other mentors’ work for quality assurance purposes.

Crimson Education

Application Mentor

The business works with individuals all over the world to design and fabricate retail products (mainly home accents, jewelry, and souvenirs) to be sold domestically. Responsible for communication, record keeping, and negotiation internationally and occasionally inventory and sales domestically.

Zeb Mehring