
Principal Software Engineer at LinkedIn
San Francisco Bay Area

Principal Software Engineer at LinkedIn
San Francisco Bay Area
I am interested in creating new internet applications, and making existing ones smarter using machine learning, statistics, optimization techniques and common sense.
machine learning, data mining, statistics, data warehousing, optimization, hadoop, analytics, distributed computing, software design, oracle, mysql, java, python, c, R, functional programming
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
June 2009 — Present (7 months)
I work on applied analytics at LinkedIn. This includes Project Voldemort, our distributed key-value storage, our batch data processing system built on top of Hadoop, as well as well as all the data-driven features that use these systems.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
August 2007 — Present (2 years 5 months)
I work on applied analytics at LinkedIn. This includes event processing, distributed key-value storage (project voldemort), hadoop, and content recommendations.
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)
April 2006 — July 2007 (1 year 4 months)
I worked on a system for collecting, analyzing, and optimizing data around merchant profitability on a large, high-traffic consumer internet site. I designed the system used for this from the ground up and was the first employee on the NexTag data mining team when it was formed specifically to concentrate on this problem.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
April 2005 — April 2006 (1 year 1 month)
MS , Computer Science , 2003 — 2005
BS , Computer Science , 1999 — 2002
machine learning, statistics, open source software, math, snowboarding, politics, novels, entrepreneurialism, people.
Highest Honors, School of Engineering, UCSC