Professional Journey
Building innovative solutions at industry-leading technology companies
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June 2024 - Present
Apple
I returned to Apple as a Full Stack Engineer specializing in iOS, macOS, tvOS, and visionOS within Apple’s AI/ML Data Operations team. I lead the development of internal tools used for training machine learning models, including an AWS-hosted application that powers data collection, annotation, and user studies across unreleased hardware. I drive the technical vision for the Apple client-side experience and architected a Swift package used across multiple teams that enables remote device communication through a custom publish/subscribe protocol. On the backend, I work with AWS technologies including Lambda, S3, Secrets Manager, ECR, and CloudWatch to build scalable, secure services.
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November 2023 - May 2024
TikTok
I was an iOS Engineer working on the privacy communication SDK shared across all ByteDance applications. I built a brand-new SDK in Objective-C with Swift bindings to deliver privacy messaging to both new and existing users. I designed and managed the SDK’s infrastructure and led its integration into the TikTok app, while also ensuring future compatibility with upcoming ByteDance products through extensive use of dependency injection.
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May 2020 - November 2023
Apple
I worked as an iOS, watchOS, and macOS engineer focused on building libraries, mobile apps, and daemons using Objective-C, C++, and SQLite. I contributed to runtime navigation logic that integrated backend microservices, GPS updates, and the iOS application layer—enabling key features like multi-stop driving navigation, AR walking guidance, and transit notifications. I was the directly responsible individual for architecting and implementing Protocol Buffers-based protocols powering exit notifications and AR instructions. I collaborated closely with project managers, designers, UI engineers, systems teams, and backend services. My work also extended to database design improvements for faster diagnostics and authoring root-cause analyses to address issues in CPU usage, memory leaks, thermal performance, UI hangs, and launch delays. I am proud to have contributed as an inventor on three awarded Apple patents.
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June 2019 - May 2020
xMatters (Acquired by Everbridge)
I was a backend engineer responsible for all new and existing REST API development within my team. I built microservices using Java, Spring Boot, JUnit, and Postgres, with data ingestion pipelines powered by Kafka in a Docker-based environment. I resolved several critical production issues, which led to me becoming the feature owner for managing the lifecycle and conversion between trial, free, and paid product tiers. I took over sole engineering ownership of this system—despite it lacking documentation or active maintainers—and collaborated directly with marketing, customer success, engineering, and QA to ensure a smooth onboarding experience for new customers. I also authored and maintained centralized documentation to support future engineers on the team.
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April 2017 - May 2019
HERE Technologies
At HERE Technologies, I developed cross-platform SDKs for iOS and Android focused on mapping, navigation, and natural language processing, using C++, Java, Objective-C, JNI, and JUnit. I contributed to the transition of the HERE Mobile SDK into its maintenance phase and prototyped various mobile applications leveraging Google Wear OS, Amazon Alexa Skills Kit, and Amazon Auto. I also worked on DevOps tooling, writing CI/CD scripts in Python and Bash within a Docker environment to support infrastructure validation and machine learning NLP model prototypes. Additionally, I implemented support for distributing HERE SDK binaries in arm64. I was the sole engineering contact for an on-site customer engagement in Southeast Asia, which led to securing a multimillion-dollar contract.
