Section II — The Work03 Roles

Twelve years.
Three companies.
One throughline: ship the unglamorous bits.

01

Jul 2022 — Present

Menlo Park, CA

Meta Platforms Inc.

Senior Software Engineer — Instagram Ads Delivery Platform

Performance, privacy and brand safety on the Instagram Ads Delivery Platform — protecting billions of impressions a day.

  • Led design and implementation of a lightweight prefetch system for Instagram ads delivery, migrating critical ad-serving pathways to more efficient architectures across billions of daily requests.
  • Architected zero-out privacy migration strategies for Instagram's ads systems, building platformized frameworks now referenced across multiple product teams.
  • Core contributor to brand safety infrastructure — co-designed and launched ad adjacency controls for Instagram's content surfaces.
  • Designed and built the Brand Safety 3P Verification solution for Instagram and Threads.
  • Go-to engineer for high-severity incident mitigation; contributed to 11 significant incident responses in the past year.
  • Drives cross-platform alignment across web and mobile ads surfaces; 70+ technical design docs authored, 15+ cross-functional partners.
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02

Jun 2018 — Jun 2022

San Jose, CA

Cohesity

Member of Technical Staff III → II

Security, anomaly detection, streaming ETL and the test infrastructure to keep it all honest.

  • Led design discussions and implementations of security projects across teams and third-party vendors.
  • Built a Spark streaming job for ransomware anomaly detection on customer systems.
  • Designed a comprehensive test automation framework for the ransomware detection pipeline.
  • Improved detection models using real customer data persisted in S3 via Logstash, analyzed with Sagemaker.
  • Built a discrete-event simulation–based continuous sizer to predict customer sizing in advance (Python, Simpy).
  • Built scalable Go microservices for real-time ETL on continuously streaming data (Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, Prometheus).
  • Designed REST APIs and gRPC interfaces between cluster and cloud across Postgres, Elastic Search and protobuf.
  • Mentored new graduates and ramped them onto the architecture and code.
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03

Aug 2012 — Jul 2016

Noida, India

CenturyLink Technologies

Software Engineer

Backend, frontend and tooling for enterprise telecom workflows.

  • Enhanced the backend and frontend of an internal e-commerce web app (Java, J2EE, HTML, CSS, JS).
  • Built an Android inventory management application for device issue / return.
  • Developed and enhanced the Workplace Self Service admin tool (Java, GWT, SQL).
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