Key Competencies
Product Passion
Deep passion for building great products from end-user consumer applications to complex enterprise software and scalable services.
Team Growth
Proven excellence in building, leading, and mentoring highly effective engineering teams, both locally and across remote geo-locations.
Execution Bias
Strong track record of creative problem-solving, data-driven decision making, and an unrelenting bias for action to deliver customer value.
Professional Experience
Kirkland, WA
Dec 2021 – Present
Engineering Manager · Cloud Dataproc & Serverless Spark
- Leading a 34 person team for Core Dataproc Clusters, Serverless Spark and Developer Experiences.
- Manage cross-org partnership with multiple internal and external teams.
- Enhancing existing Spark platform on GCP for AI and ML workloads.
- Launched 3P plugins for Spark integration into Jupyter, Vertex AI, Colab notebooks & VS Code.
Facebook (Meta)
Seattle, WA
Jan 2017 – Dec 2021
Engineering Manager · AR / VR
- Launched Facebook’s first voice assistant in the first consumer device: Portal, bringing a richer video calling experience.
- Cross-functional owner for the “Hey Portal” assistant; integrated NLP/AI from research into Portal and Oculus VR headsets.
- Led delivery of unannounced AR and VR products while managing broad partner relationships globally.
Engineering Manager · Facebook App
- Led expansion of the engineering team focused on confidential product initiatives across the Facebook ecosystem.
- Created direction, built product, and executed the global launch for the new Visual Polls feature.
Groupon Inc.
Seattle, WA
2014 – 2017
Director of Engineering · Global Mobile Consumer Platform
- Managed 36 engineers and managers across 6 teams building the core consumer mobile experience for Groupon (Android and iOS).
- Broke into comScore’s top 25 mobile apps in 2016 (#2 in retail category).
Director of Engineering · Things-to-do & Getaways
- Built an organization of 22 engineers across 4 teams for the Things-to-do and Getaways businesses, spanning Seattle and NYC.
- Built 3rd party integration platform partnering with Ticketmaster, tickets.com and Telecharge for event vendor onboarding.
Senior Mobile Engineering Manager · Getaways Mobile
- Built v1 Getaways Android and iOS app powering a $300M+ business unit.
- Led standardization of common mobile libraries across Groupon apps (Android/iOS).
Amazon.com
Seattle, WA
2011 – 2014
Software Development Manager · Amazon Prime Video
- Led the Core Mobile Platform team providing base Android components for Amazon Prime Video (network, caching, auth, metrics).
- Led a cross-organization effort to integrate Amazon Video into the Amazon Shopping app.
Software Development Engineer · Amazon Instant Video
- Senior leader on Amazon Prime Video's Android team, launching on 3 generations of tablets, 3 TV platforms and 2 phone platforms.
- Designed and implemented flagship features: ASAP (Advanced Streaming and Prediction) and X-Ray.
- Technical lead for Amazon Video on Google TV and integration into Amazon Shopping app; led cross-org technical architecture.
- Technical lead for two additional unannounced cross-division projects.
Microsoft Corporation
Redmond, WA
2002 – 2011
Senior Software Engineer Manager · Xbox LIVE Publishing 2008-2011
- Technical Lead for the publishing portal powering $2B/year of content from developer to marketplace.
- Led a 10-person team to replace 120+ tools and 12 content types into one streamlined pipeline for Xbox LIVE.
Software Engineer Manager · Bing Search 2006-2008
- Managed a 4-person team developing the Structured Data Pipeline ingesting millions of items via XML feeds into the search index daily.
- Technical Lead for the Quality Scorecard across the entire Bing Search organization, measuring and reporting overall engineering health.
Software Engineer · Office InfoPath & MSN Shopping 2002-2006
- Area Owner for XML feed ingestion system handling 50+ million products at MSN Shopping.
- Published multiple whitepapers and technical blogs for Microsoft Office InfoPath.
Education
University of Waterloo
Bachelor of Mathematics in Honours Computer Science
Waterloo, Ontario · Co-operative Education Program
Class of 2002
Patents
Selected Projects
📅 Family Calendar
A self-hosted web app that unifies multiple Google Calendars into one clean weekly view. Features family member profiles, hashtag filtering, Presentation Mode for weekly planning, and full privacy — all in a single Docker container.
⏱️ Auto Work Log
A Chrome extension that automatically tracks time spent on Google Docs and web-based tools. Provides daily summaries with per-document time and visit counts, one-click export to Google Sheets, and customizable URL rules with regex patterns.