Professional Profile

About Me

Engineering Leader at Snowflake, driving Snowsight and leading cross-cutting initiatives across Cortex Code, AI Everywhere, Snowflake Intelligence, and Copilot/Agent experiences. I focus on delivering performant, intelligent, and scalable user experiences through AI-driven product innovation, UI performance, observability, and workload management.

Previously led cell manufacturing software at Tesla and AR Monetization at Snapchat, building systems at global scale. Passionate about crafting high-impact, data-driven products and mentoring teams to push the boundaries of what's possible.

Experience

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    Engineering Leadership (IC Role)

    Snowflake 2024 - Present

    ● Architected Cortex Code, Snowflake's agentic AI development environment powering intelligent assistance across SQL worksheets, Notebooks, Streamlit, and data workflows.
    ● Architected and designed Snowflake Intelligence, connecting Cortex Analyst, Cortex Search, and custom tools for natural language data exploration.
    ● Led PE Next frontend platform, cutting UI latency by 50% and enabling modular federation adoption.
    ● Pioneered ai.snowflake.com launch, solving cross-domain SSO and security challenges.
    ● Tech Lead for Cost & Workload Optimization, MX, and AI Everywhere teams. Recognized by CEO as "10x Engineer."

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    Engineering Manager, Staff Software Engineer

    Tesla 2023 — 2024

    ● Unified access to Tesla's Cell Manufacturing software services, enhancing integration across the board.
    ● Managed multi-disciplinary engineering team, overseeing project lifecycles and defining roadmaps.
    ● Built Tesla's first high-speed battery cell manufacturing execution software system with 8x scalability across three factories.
    ● Utilized GraphQL, gRPC, Golang, React, and Kubernetes stack for operational efficiency.
    ● Led recruitment, mentoring, and agile development practices in fast-paced manufacturing environment.

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    Technical Lead

    Snap Inc. 2019 — 2023

    Technical Lead, AR Enterprise Services (2021 - 2023)
    ● Pioneered AR Enterprise Solutions generating $250M in revenue through partnerships with Puma and New Balance.
    ● Launched AR Try On features globally, contributing $20M in annual sponsored Ads revenue.
    ● Led Ads Tracking initiatives, boosting Snapchat revenue by 30%.
    ● Reduced headcount costs by $1.5M while maintaining product quality.

    Technical Lead, Memories (2019 - 2021)
    ● Delivered Featured Stories increasing daily snap views by 100M across 500M users.
    ● Streamlined cross-platform technical stacks, reducing operational costs.
    ● Led modularization efforts improving app cold start speed by 70%.

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    Software Engineer

    Groupon 2018

    ● Built end-to-end reminder notification system handling 1M+ daily users, generating $4.75M annual revenue.
    ● Redesigned notification payloads reducing codebase by 20,000+ lines.

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    Researcher

    Microelectronic Embedded Systems Laboratory at UC San Diego 2015 - 2018

    ● Created Genie, a web UI for Smart Building IoT application.
    ● Built REST APIs and frontend interfaces for ML algorithm integration.

Education

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    University of California San Diego

    Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Engineering

    Provost's Honors, GPA – 3.8, Major GPA - 3.9

My skills

  • AI Product & Platform Engineering

    Coding Agent / Reasoning Agent Architecture

    Model Context Protocol (MCP) Integration

    Tool and Prompt Orchestration

    Context and Memory Management

    Agent-to-Agent Communication

    Evaluation Pipelines

    Fine-Tuning Workflows

    Model Quality Scoring

    Retrieval and Grounding

    LLM Performance Optimization

  • Frontend / Web

    TypeScript

    JavaScript

    React

    Redux

    RTK/React Query

    GraphQL

    Next.js

    Webpack / Rspack

    Module Federation

    Playwright

    CSS / HTML

  • Backend / Infrastructure

    Golang

    Java

    Node.js

    gRPC

    REST

    PostgreSQL

    Kubernetes

    Docker

    Microservices

    Caching

    Distributed Tracing

  • Mobile

    Swift

    Objective-C

    Kotlin

    Java

    Cross-platform UI (Composer, Djinni)

  • Tooling & Dev Workflow

    Bazel

    Jenkins

    GitHub Actions

    Storybook

    Playwright

    Jest

    Mocha / Chai

  • Data Analytics

    Snowflake

    SQL

    Python

    Airflow

    Looker

    Grafana

    Telemetry & Performance Dashboards

  • AR

    Lens Studio

    3D Body Tracking

    Full-Screen Segmentation

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